Bus Fumes

The Blagoviator continues his codswallop-flinging tour:

“I keep hoping that maybe they will wake up and realize that this is just one big misunderstanding.”

There's a misunderstanding alright. When you're the only one in the world who believes he's misunderstood, maybe... just maybe... you're not.

Even his attorneys have given up on him:

Gov. Rod Blagojevich's chief defense attorney announced Friday that he is bailing out of the fraud and bribery case against the governor, strongly hinting that his embattled client refused to listen to his advice.

"I never require a client to do what I say, but I do require them to at least listen," Edward Genson said. "I intend to withdraw as counsel in this case."

Well, what did he expect?

And now, the Gov is pulling out the stops and doing a Drew:

By hiring the public-relations firm that represents former Bolingbrook Police Sgt. Drew Peterson, the impeached governor of Illinois has accomplished two things.

He has given the green light to those of us who felt timid about drawing comparisons between his brash behavior and Peterson's. And he has cemented our state's new marketing slogan as: "Come to Illinois. Chock full o' crazy."

I don't think he's crazy though... at least not any crazier than I think Drew Peterson is. Tainting the national jury pool seems to be gaining popularity as a legal strategy around here, that's for sure.

I'm not the only one who doesn't think he's crazy:

[T]here’s usually not much hope for a person with a narcissistic personality disorder, he says.

“The personality is really hard to change,” Bohlen said. “They’re hard to work with. They’re non-compliant. There are impairments to either social or occupational or other types of functioning. They’re easy to make mad, and when they do, they tend to drop out of therapy or counseling. They only come back when they’re hurting again and they need an immediate fix, and they expect you’ll make them well with a pill or something.”

Just ask Ed Genson.

“People who are narcissistic rarely get psychotherapy,” Moredock said. “They don’t think they’re the problem.

“They think everyone else is the problem.”

Yup.