Obamaccountability

Good old Chicago. Barack's money man Tony Rezko's still singing so his sentencing has been postponed, even as the FBI takes another look at the Obama/Rezko loan files. But we've got one--not The One, it's Fast Eddie Vrodolyak who pleads guilty:

Former Chicago Ald. Edward Vrdolyak long enjoyed a reputation for always being a step ahead of federal investigators, but Monday his past caught up with him.

Eleventh-hour negotiations over the weekend ended with "Fast Eddie" becoming yet another former Chicago politician to become a convicted felon, pleading guilty to plotting to take a bogus finder's fee in a Gold Coast real estate deal.

"The notion in Chicago that there are certain people who cannot or will not be held accountable took a serious hit today," U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald said after the hearing.

Ah well, but how long will Fitzgerald last in an Obama administration? Will accountability become almost immediately a quaint notion in Chicago? Ah yes, and what about the country?