What's on trial is the Illinois Combine. We pay for this bipartisan cooperation in higher taxes, "the Chicago Way".

With Rezko's jury being selected, you might think Republicans would feel some excitement running down their legs, the way liberal pundits tingle with Obamamania, or the way teenage girls respond to photographs of Justin Timberlake. Instead the Republicans are subdued. As I've warned before, the Rezko trial isn't about Obama. It is about Rezko and some Democrats, like Gov. Rod "The Unreformer" Blagojevich. But it also involves Rezko and powerful Illinois Republicans with national reach.

more on Rezko today: Obama was at Rezko Party For Controversial Iraqi Billionaire - Chicago Sun Times: http://blogs.suntimes.com/rezko/2008/04/obama_bomb_dropped.html

Obama was at Rezko Party For Controversial Iraqi Billionaire

The Obama Files

The story focuses on four astute men who have little in common other than Mr. Obama: Messrs Rezko, Ayers, Khalidi and Auchi. Finding facts about Mr. Obama's exchanges with this quartet creates much of what can be called a political profile of candidate Obama.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=25166