Reply #8: He wasn't honest -- just incredibly arrogant and stupid

[nichomachus]

No politician with an ounce of sense would demand specific payments himself. That's why God created bag men. They get the word out in very obscure ways that can never be traced to the politician and the payments come in the same way.

Blago didn't do it out of some sense of honesty -- he was just too arrogant to think that it was eventually going to bite him in the ass.

I've known a lot of crooked pols and I've never known one who made his own deals.