This really is a bad movie. Or a great “bad movie.” Blago declares at an afternoon presser that he’s “not going to quit a job the people hired me to do because of false accusations and a political lynch mob.” The New York Times dryly relates his remarks which included this priceless passage:

 “I will fight, I will fight, I will fight, till I take my very last breath. I have done nothing wrong.” He quoted several lines from the poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling, and left the glare of flashbulbs without taking any questions.

Alas, he did not tell the local media to “bleep off.” There is a cartoon-like quality about him which makes an otherwise rather appalling story somehow hysterical.

Meanwhile, the Democrats in Illinois aren’t nearly as amusing. They’re still not going to let the people vote on the next senator. And the President-elect — is he calling for the people to be heard? Is he leading the charge to end the embarrassing disenfranchisement of his beloved former Illinois constituents? No, he’s sitting out this fight.

This drama — comedy, really — will go on for sometime. If by 2010 the GOP doesn’t have that Senate seat one way or another, they never will.