You're Fired!

57-0-0 was good enough yesterday, but does anyone know the reason for the second vote that resulted in the 59-0 count? Who were the two Senators who were recorded on the first vote as Not Voting? On the first action, I mean, to throw Blago out? Why was there a re-vote?

No doubt that Blago's fall from office will be the topic of the news, talk shows and the late-night TV shows for some time, as people continue to try to figure him out. Was it a case of the best defense is a good offense?

Blago had expressed financial difficulties; now both his wife and he are unemployed. Did she lose her job because of the economy, RIFs occurring at many organizations and businesses, her productivity as a fund-raising (certainly made more difficult by the economy) or because she was Mrs. Blagojevich and that name was carrying too much baggage and she was soon to be the ex-First Lady of Illinois?

We shouldn't forget the two kids caught up in this mess. Blago tried to play the Kid card, and he was as unsuccessful there as he was on the floor of the Senate yesterday.

But there are still two kids in this picture. We should remember them, as well as remembering all the kids who are suffering when parents lose their jobs. In Blago's case, the humiliation that goes along with a very public firing could have a lifelong impact on them.