Don't forget in all this talk about the Senate Seat that Roddy B. also withheld Medicaid funds from a Children's Hospital until the doctors there could come up with an $800,000 "contribution"....

My youngest brother called and asked me "Who's going to get the longest jail time -- your Senator or my Governor?" (Idaho Senator Larry Craig just had his guilty plea upheld in Minnesota.) Bro also said that Roddy is probably the loneliest man in Illinois right now, because the Chicago Machine has cut him lose.

Of course, his FIL, a rather powerful Chicago Alderman, hasn't seen his grandkids in two years -- and Roddy hasn't talked to his Lt. Governor in 18 months.