Congratulations, Republicans!

Specifically, to two Republicans. US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and Congressman Elect Anh Cao.

First of all, one of my personal heroes US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, for finally arresting Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. I've been embarassed to have the "Boy Governor" rule my state ever since I moved to the Chicago area. Beyond the rank incompetence and standard issue bipartisan Illinois corruption:

Blagojevich was intercepted on court-authorized wiretaps during the last month conspiring to sell or trade Illinois' U.S. Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama for financial and other personal benefits for himself and his wife.

Wow. Just wow.

It's shameful that the Republicans in this state couldn't get their act together to take out Blagojevich in a re-election campaign.

Patrick Fitzgerald has also gone after Republicans, so God bless him for helping rake muck out of the Democratic Party too! I hope Obama keeps him on and increases his staff. He's got a LOT more work around here.

I'll note that in Bush's US Attorney scandal, Dubya's administration tried to figure out how to fire Fitzgerald for doing his job. They didn't fire him, but they did force out multiple other attorneys for either indicting Republicans or not indicting enough Democrats. They didn't ask for convictions, just flashy indictments shortly before elections: notice how no one from ACORN has gone to jail for the supposed 'vote fraud' during this election?

More kudos to Anh "Joseph" Cao, for taking the Congressional seat of the nation's most comically corrupt Democrat, William Jefferson of Louisiana. Representative Jefferson is famous for getting caught with $90,000 hidden in his freezer and was under multiple federal indictments. And he still wasn't kicked out by his colleagues on ethics charges. That's some shameful shtuff. He was stripped of all committe assignments.

Mr Cao is considered to be a moderate Republican:

A former Jesuit seminarian, he is a member of the National Advisory Council to the U.S. Conference of Bishops. He also served on the board and as legal counsel to Boat People S.O.S., an advocacy group for Vietnamese refugees. He opened a private law practice in 2002 and specializes in immigration issues. Post-Katrina he led the fight against a landfill that residents in eastern New Orleans feared would harm their neighborhood and has been an effective and passionate advocate for the area's recovery.