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Opinion: Is Rod Blagojevich already plotting a comeback?

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And so it begins.

Impeached by an eye-popping 59 of the 59 senators serving in the Illinois Senate, now ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich used the last minutes of his executive power to grant a pardon to a former drug dealer and janitor at a homeless center where the former governor’s wife worked, and clemency for a prominent Chicago real estate developer who was already pardoned for forgery charges.

Already, politicos in Chicago are speculating about Blagojevich’s motives -- and how the pardon moves might help launch a comeback.

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On MSNBC this morning, anchor Tamron Hall noted that Danny Rostenkowski, the once-powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, was toppled by the infamous post office scandal in which it came out that he was keeping ghost employees on the payroll. Rostenkowski went to prison, left politics, became a political commentator for television’s ubiquitous talking heads and taught at Loyola University.

For the full text and video of Blago’s farewell remarks, click here.

Hey, with that head of hair, to say nothing of his love for the microphone, Blagojevich is a natural.

-- Johanna Neuman

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