Mike Madigan

Speculations abounds (espcially from lefties trolling here) on who dropped the dime to Fitzy causing Blago to get pinched this week.

The initial rumors were Rahm Emanuel. Which he now denies  http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/12/10/rahm/index.html?source=rss&aim=/politics/war_room

It does make sense, though. The question is: who in Illinois Democratic politics would benefit from having both Blago and a host of U.S. Senate aspirants nuked at the same time?

Answer: Someone who would be left standing as the last power in the state.

Think how Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Bulger did business---flipping on members of the New England Mafia to the FBI primarily so his competition was sent to prison. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Bulger#FBI_informant http://www.thebrothersbulger.com/

 Someone on the inside in Illinois Democrat politics is going to benefit from all this misfortune by taking over the ruins.  I could easily see Rahm running Illinois while serving as Obama's COS.

But if it isn't him (and he may not want to be candid, now would he?)  , then who is it?

We'd best figure this out, cause this guy is: a)sneaky,  b) smart and: c) ruthless. We're having enough trouble in Ill. already.

(hmm: maybe it's the same guy who leaked Blair Hull and Jack Ryan's divorce dirt to the papers?)  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Illinois,_2004

One final note; Sam Zell says he will be talking to the Feds about the Wrigley Field "squeeze play" http://blogs.courant.com/stan_simpson/2008/12/sam-zell-to-talk-to-fbi.html

Methinks that if Illinois Republicans have any functioning cortexes left  they will tell Mr. Zell to pay for his own damm ballpark. No need to fire any columnists, either.