Blago Bucking the Outfit?

Kass has had some interesting takes on the ongoing Blago saga. We're following it closely enough to wonder if Kass isn't predicting the Rod might end up "trunked" at some point. In the 27 January column you can read the following:

• On "The View" he issued a threat to his estranged father-in-law, Ald. Dick Mell (33rd), the man who made him. The governor said his political problems began after he blocked an illegal landfill supported by Mell. That may have slipped past all the pretend Chicago political experts, but it didn't slip past Chicago politicians. They know a threat when they hear it.
  
  Yet it is what Gov. [Blago] told NBC over the weekend that surely terrifies Illinois politicians:
  
  "And for me to just quit because some cackling politicians want to get me out of the way because there's a whole bunch of things they don't want known about them and conversations they may have had with me . . . would be to disgrace my children when I know I've done nothing wrong," said the governor.

But that was nothing to what Kass wrote on 25 January:

• "Let's talk about that Bottle Service Bill," the governor might begin, "You know, the bill the Rush Street guys wanted allowing Reserve and other clubs to provide bottle service, and charge the suckers $500 for a $50 bottle of vodka. I remember how it started, up in my office, and who was there, and why. So let's talk."
  
  I'd pay to see it. I'd even pay a janitor to clean the carpet after a few esteemed legislators lost their lunch.
  
  It was the governor's loud demand to call the president's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, as a witness that made the real news. Gov. Nosferatu's criminal defense attorney was Edward Genson, whose job it was to hold the governor's hand and keep him quiet, just as Genson kept Larry Warner, the corrupt pal of former Gov. George Ryan, quiet.
  
  
• Emanuel had been the U.S. representative of the 5th Congressional District. The previous congressman was Blagojevich. The district is dominated by western suburban towns with long mob histories. It is politically dominated by Genson's good friend and Blagojevich's former shadow governor, state Sen. James DeLeo (D-How You Doin'?).
  
  Surely, President Obama would not appreciate his chief of staff publicly reminding America about those earthy political allies.
  
  Weeks ago, I reported that DeLeo, Genson's son and state Senate President John Cullerton (D-DeLeo) are partners in the lucrative Lincoln Park Title Co. It seemed like a conflict to me, but apparently not to others. Yet Blagojevich's insistence for Emanuel's testimony apparently gave Genson the pretext to end their relationship.
  
  "I wish the governor good luck and Godspeed," Genson said.

It certainly sounds like Genson, a lawyer with a habit of defending Outfit members, is getting out of the line of fire. Blago isn't crazy, not totally crazy at least. But he's a loose cannon if he gets pushed too far and Chicago has a well documented history of dealing with loose cannons.

And anyone (including intesrested investigative reporters) who's ever played "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" might be amazed at how many degrees separate the following people from some well known Mob figures:

• Daley (all of them)
• Mell (including Patti) and other aldrecreatures
  
• Blago and George Ryan
  
• Rahm Emanuel
• DeLeo and all his cousins
• The President of the United States

We're just saying...