The only thing I have to say about Sarah Palin's resignation and the speech announcing it is that I laughed out loud when she complained about citizens using the very ethics law she helped pass to launch complaints about her. (How dare they! Ethics are for bad people!) My usual complaint about self-styled reformers is that they're either hopelessly naive or else phonies like Rod Blagojevich. Somehow, Sarah Palin manages to be both.
I actually have a lot of respect for longtime Hyde Parker Abner Mikva even though he's been a reformer for decades and decades. But check out this quote near the end of a Trib article about my first alma mater's campaign-donations-for-admittance policy:
"I'd be mad as hell and I'd tell my bright students, 'You don't want to go to the University of Illinois, that's a clout school,' " Mikva said.
Right, Abner, because the last thing high school students want is to be surrounded by a lot of well-connected peers who'll bring down the curve.
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