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There have been numerous articles contemplating Mike's stance on Governor Blagojevich's current pay-to-play fiasco.

From Santa Barbara to the Heartland to all the way across the big pond, columnists lick their chops over Mike's would-be diatribe:

We Need Royko - How Chicago's sage columnist would have handled 'Rod the Clod'

Boy, if Mike Royko were alive, Rod and Patricia Blagojevich would be in real trouble.


THE SAD part of Chicago's latest corruption scandal is that the city's greatest columnist is no longer around to interpret it to the outside world. Mike Royko would surely have enjoyed explaining the charges laid against the Illinois governor, the breadth of which even the federal prosecutor describes as "staggering", writes Frank McNally...


And I’m sure the late columnist Mike Royko would have made mincemeat out of this craven clown years ago...

Corruption? Moi?


It's all a game to some politicians...

I imagined the late great Mike Royko, a Chicago newspaper columnist who reveled in exposing down-and-dirty Chicago machine politics, trying to get on the El from the hereafter to cover this one...


THE PULITZER Prize-winning Chicago columnist, Mike Royko, said that Illinois produced two types of politicians: the actively corrupt, who viewed political office as a means to personal enrichment and solicited bribes whenever they could; and the passively corrupt, who turned a blind eye and traded acquiescence for influence. In Royko's opinion, formed over four decades as an extremely well-connected reporter, it was impossible to accrue power any other way...

Well, I think that they've got it mostly wrong. The governor's shenanigans have made the news for years now and we have turned a deaf ear, believing that, perhaps, the Illinois Constitution mandates that corruption and Springfield go hand-in-glove. Incredibly, Governor Blagojevich was re-elected in the midst of numerous allegations of wrongdoing, but now, with the Feds following the scent, the politically correct view is to hang Blagojevich out to dry. The herd mentality of the press is simply amazing - it is a wonder that anything original makes it nowadays. Next we'll be hearing "kill the pig, spill his blood"!

Mike Royko would have stated, in unequivocal terms, that the blame lies squarely with the voters of Illinois. The Founding Fathers (and Abe as well) are rolling over in their graves. We have runaway governments in Chicago, Springfield and across this nation.

We in Illinois (and in the United States) have received the government that we deserve.