Hertzberg on Blagojevich

Hertzberg on Blagojevich. Wow. I don’t even know what to excerpt. Blagojevich’s musing about what a fair price for Obama’s senate seat would be? His reaction when told Obama wouldn’t be coughing up? The contrast with NY? Oh what the heck, when in doubt, go with the profanity:

Blagojevich—who had remarked of the Senate seat, “I’ve got this thing and it’s fucking golden, and, uh, uh, I’m just not giving it up for fuckin' nothing”—was not happy when told that no offers were forthcoming from anyone around “this motherfucker,” as he referred to the President-elect: “Fuck him. For nothing? Fuck him.”