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Blago: impeachment because he "[fought] for families"

In one of the stranger press conferences in recent memory, the Illinois governor defends himself, attacks his enemies and quotes Tennyson.
Alex Koppelman

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  • Friday, January 9, 2009 01:46 PM

    He quoted from the wrong part of Ulysses

    ...shoulda started at the top.

    It little profits that an idle king,

    By this still hearth, among these barren crags,

    Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole

    Unequal laws unto a savage race

    —Kenneth Cavness Read Kenneth Cavness's other letters

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