Rod Blagojevich - No Smoking Gun

CHICAGO — They were close. After three weeks of respectful but increasingly tense deliberations, 11 jurors were ready to convict Rod Blagojevich of what prosecutors called a "political corruption crime spree."

Not close enough. On vote after vote, the jury kept coming up one juror short — a lone holdout who wouldn't budge and would agree only that Blagojevich lied to the FBI. "The person just did not see the evidence that everyone else did," said a juror.

My thoughts: Rod Blagojevich does have a big, foul mouth. But if you could be convicted for talking too much and using profane language, threatening to kill someone or their barking dogs, etc. we would all be convicted and sent to prison.

There was no money involved. He did not actually do what he talked about doing. It is only talk.

And now the government is going to spend thousands of dollars of taxpayer money for another trial -- both for prosection and for the defense. Now there is money involved but it is our money!!