More folks are picking up on Barack Obama’s failure to fight Illinois corruption when he was in the state senate.

The most devastating to date is probably a Saturday Night Live skit this past weekend.

The Chicago Sun-Times reported Sunday of a John McCain character criticizing an earmark called the “Tony Rezko hush fund.”

“Obama’s character shot back, ‘Sen. McCain, you know I withdrew that initiative after he began cooperating with federal authorities,’” the Sun-Times said in a last minute page 2 story.

Rezko, as the Chicago Tribune reports boldly (at least the picture of Rezko was big), is talking to the U.S. Attorney’s Office according to defense attorneys who do not wish to be named.

Later in the skit when the McCain character complains that Obama will have to increase taxes to provide all the programs he has proposed, according to the Tribune’s “The Swamp” blog (according to a transcript supplied by NBC):

“ARMISEN AS SEN. OBAMA:

“John, once again, you’re not being truthful about my proposals.

“Under my tax plan, not only would every American making less than $250,000 per year get a tax cut; so would most members of the Chicago City Council as well as city Building Inspectors.

“That’s because my plan would not tax income from bribes, kickbacks, shakedowns, embezzlement of government funds, or extortion.”

The worst thing that can happen to a politician is ridicule.