Here’s what the Senate tote board showed after the roll of the 59 Illinois state senators had been called.

59-0 in favoring of kicking Governor Rod Blagojevich out of office.

All those Democrats scurrying for cover lest they be thought to agree with the governor’s closing argument:

“Take those four tapes as they are and you, I believe in fairness, will recognize and acknowledge those are conversations relating to the things all of us in politics do in order to run campaigns and try to win elections.”

If true, the problem is a lot bigger than our ex-governor.