Game over, Rod

I know what the GOP droids are going to tell us: "Rod Blagojevich is a lib just like you lololololololololololz."

(I also notice the media is trying to link Barack Obama to Blagojevich's woes, solely because they are from the same party and state. That's exactly like if they had tried to link me to Paul Patton's scandal.)

To hear the other side tell it, you'd think Blagojevich was cofounder of The Last Word.

Quite the contrary, Blagojevich has had some rather right-wing ideas as Governor of Illinois. He was so fearful of the free flow of ideas that he proposed limits on selling "violent" video games. He said media violence caused obesity. (I swear I am not making this up.) The AP reported that his plan passed an Illinois House committee unanimously, "despite concerns that it might be unconstitutional."

It's pretty bad when politicians try to pass stuff they know might be unconstitutional, but Bush didn't exactly set a shining example. By the time Illinois passed its law, courts had already struck down similar laws in other states because they violated freedom of speech.

Despite all this, Blagojevich's fear of reason prompted copycat measures in other states.

The Illinois law was so vague and broad that even football video games would have been covered by it.

And it cost Illinois taxpayers dearly. It too was ruled unconstitutional, forcing the state to pay over $500,000 in legal fees. They sure didn't learn, did they? After that, the state tried refusing to pay.

I know, man, that Rod Blagojevich sounds like a real left-wing guy to me - not!