When you’re already the target of a multi-year investigation into public corruption, wouldn’t you try to stay on the straight and narrow until it ended?
Apparently not, if you’re Governor Blagojevich.
How dumb is it to effectively try to sell a Senate seat?

The governor?s own words describing the Senate seat: ?It?s a [bleeping] valuable thing. You just don?t give it away for nothing.? Another quote: ?I?ve got this thing and it?s [bleeping] golden. I?m just not giving it up for [bleeping] nothing. I?m not going to do it. I can always use it ? I can parachute me there.?

Last I looked, being in the US Senate, which is what he seems to imply he’d like to be in that last sentence, doesn’t confer invulnerability from prosecution, Governor; just ask Ted Stevens.
I’d say he’s dumber than a box of rocks, but that insults rocks.