A good point from the Corner:

Pat [Fitzgerald] has never given up his day job throughout this appointment. That job is being the U.S. attorney in Chicago —– responsible for the enforcement of federal law in a 150-lawyer office in the 3d or 4th largest district in the country. Indictments in that office, since he took over in 2001, are up by something like 100 percent, and they have done impressive work in terrorism financing, organized crime, securities fraud and political corruption. Further, unlike most U.S. attorneys, who leave the work to the staff and just steer the ship, he has always handled some of the big cases himself.

He is thus actually far busier than normal prosecutors, and there is no reason to fear that — like Starr, Walsh or Barrett — his only mission in life is to be the full-time, personal prosecutor for a few beleaguered public servants. (This investigation, in fact, has cost the public a bare fraction of what those other magillas cost.)

The press conference is at 2:00 EST. K-Lo and the other Corner-ites keep saying "can we just get on with it?" Well, we Bush-haters are on the edges of our seats as well. I'm gonna go throw myself into work and I just might end up taking a long lunch at, say, around two so I can hang around at the two-story screen on the Channel 7 building across the street.

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