Our Star Governor

Via Capitol Fax, the Hotline blog on Illinois' Democrat Governor Blagojevich, who kept Howard Dean waiting:

Blago started off his 8/19 a.m. performance by keeping a room packed with hundreds of Dem activists and donors waiting — for 20 mins — forcing a visibly irritated DNC Chair Howard Dean to stall. When he finally arrived, Blagojevich breezed through an apology and into a stock ice-breaker “joke” about driving in his motorcade and being mistaken for Chicago Mayor Richard Daley by a little girl. “And that’s not because my last name’s hard to pronounce,” he quipped.

Can you believe he is still telling that same tasteless story about the little girl?

You gotta love that he kept Dean waiting (wonder what The Hotline means by "visibly irritated"-- shrieks or snarls?), but you'll notice no one is mentioning Rod as a rising star or presidential material. And the Democrats don't have that many governors of populous states that they can easily afford to write one off.

Maybe we voters can write him out of the script in November.

UPDATE: Reverse Spin on the governor's mystery gifts:

Who are the people he accepted gifts from?

Chris Kelly, Tony Rezko — Rod’s two top fundraisers. Both are under scrutiny by the U.S. Attorney’s office in various corruption investigations. They are the two “close associates” of Public Official A in the infamous Joe Cari plea agreement, according to published reports. Those same published reports name Blagojevich as Public Official A.

Or maybe the Feds will write him out of the script for us.