Let Blago celebrate Silver Anniversay at home

Possibly the most entertaining public official, albeit dreadful governor, in my lifetime popped up in the news after a 2 year absence. In a 24th anniversary love letter from Rod 'Blago' Blagojevich to his long suffering but apparently loyal wife Patty, Blago sought sympathy for himself and hope for his appeal process still grinding inexorably in the ...courts, for early release from his twelve year stay in a Colorado federal prison on corruption charges. Ask a hundred folks what Blago did to deserve 12 years in the joint, costing taxpayers a cool fifty grand yearly, and possibly all hundred will roll their eyeballs and say "beats me." That's because Blago, who made nary a dime on whatever cockamamie schemes he rambled about endlessly on secretly recorded conversations, essentially got twelve big ones for taunting and baiting the entire political and judicial system. Our perfectly coiffed, Elvis channeling, perpetual motor mouth political fool, is apparently an infantile narcissist who heedlessly stumbled to his doom.

Like most defective and disgraced politicians of his ilk, a public citizen Blago represents no further threat to society. Having lost his income, his reputation, his freedom, his future, and his cherished hairdo, Blago needs to vacate his cell for a truly deserving bad guy. If it's so important he continue to pay and pay for imagined horrors, why not grant him home confinement for the rest of his sentence, with a pass to work eight hours a day in a homeless shelter or equivalent public aid agency. Wife Patty's loyalty is admirable. Time for Blago's revenge seekers to examine their own foibles, show some compassion, common sense and fiscal responsibility to let Blago celebrate his Silver Anniversary with his wife and daughters. Besides, maybe, he can break out his famous 'football' and a little hair dye to once again channel Elvis.