Blago Loves His ****ing Parents

C-Span is carrying a live
feed of Blago's final argument before the Illinois Senate. David Freddoso provides an earlier snippet of Blagojevich's swan song:

It's really an embarrassing spectacle. "I didn't go to Harvard," he says. "I applied on a Monday, got my rejection letter back on Tuesday . . . But I became governor, and what was I going to do with that, squander it? No, I was going to try to get things done for people like my parents . . . I think about my parents a lot. I think about ordinary people like them . . ."

Blago also says that if you fire him, then Obama will have to fire Rahm Emanuel, too. Because Blago thinks he's being impeached for trying to provide low income families with health care. And Rahm Emanuel wants to do that, too. Or something.