The Net Gets Wider

The forty bajillion dollar question right now is, who besides G-Rod is going to prison?

From what I've learned from observing Pat Fitzgerald in recent years, I would say that right now Jessie Jackson Jr. stands a better than 50% chance. J.J.Jr. rushed to a microphone as soon as it was to be learned that he was "Senate Candidate No. 5." Of course, he denies any wrongdoing, and vehemently denies having sent an "emissary" with a promise of 1.5MM to G-Rod in exchnage for Obama's senate seat. Maybe he's telling the truth, maybe not. But something (perhaps all of the reporters and newspaper editors screaming for J.J.Jr. to be more forthcoming) leads me to believe that, even if he was unaware of the specifics of this deal, he was certainly up to something that he doesn't want us to know about. And trying to keep a secret from the Special Prosecutor is a bad, bad idea. J.J.Jr. will have to be verrrrrrrry careful when he goes on record before the US Attorneys. If he gives them any reason to think he's not been completely honest with them, he absolutely will go to jail.

But the plot thickens. Jessie Jackson Sr. feels the need to make it known that he was not the "emissary." What might Papa Jackson know and when might he have known it? The thought of Jessie Jackson having to spill his guts to the Feds--and any number of things that we might learn about "the reverend" in the process--is almost too delicious to comprehend.

And then there's Rahm "no questions" Emanuel, the President-elect's right hand guy. Kind of funny, when an Illinois feller who is thisclose to Obama doesn't have anything to say about the greatest scandal to rock the Land of Lincoln in his lifetime, no? Which by the way, involves his new boss's old job? Care to comment, Mr. Emanuel? Fugheddaboutit.

A word to the wise: People who come clean sooner get paroled faster.