That fetid odor you smell rising from the wreckage of Rod Blagojevich's political career is the stench of politics as usual, and not even President-elect Barack Obama can escape it. The once bright prospect of voters having a role in clearing the air of this latest Illinois political scandal has crashed on the determination of the state's Democratic Party hierarchy to hold on to Obama's vacant U.S. Senate seat at any cost.

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