Breaking News: Illinois Still Hilarious.

Kudos to Mike Sweitzer-Beckman for sending this little bit of news along to me.

Governor Milorad Blagojevich has lost his lawyers for the Senate impeachment trial.

"We cannot and will not degrade our client, ourselves, our oaths and our profession, as well as the office of the governor, by participating in a Potemkin-like lynching proceeding, thus making it appear that the governor is represented by competent counsel when in fact he is not," the statement said."

Potemkin-like lynching proceedings!!!

I'm hoping for more awesome poetry quotes from the Gov. I think someone should step in and tell Rod that he and his cronies are not helping themselves by using the word "lynching" whenever the public opportunity presents itself.

Presumably Genson at least stays on for the eventual legal trial. Or maybe he could actually just get R. Kelly to defend him, and cut out the middle man. Because this stuff is even better than the "Trapped In the Closet" series, which is actually saying quite a lot.