I’m waiting for a call to the courtroom here on jury duty, after slogging my way through sloppy roads from last night’s snowstorm in Minnesota.  I don’t have too much time for in-depth blogging, so I’ll stick with some quick observations for the day.

In the matter of Rod Blagojevich, has anyone else noticed that the Democrats have a losing streak in governors?  Over the last four years, they now have three of them charged with crimes in office.  Jim McGreevey resigned from his post in New Jersey after appointing his gay lover to run the state’s Homeland Security effort, which distracted people from the pay-to-play scandals that had begun to dog his administration.  Eliot Spitzer had to resign after federal investigators discovered that he utilized the same kind of call-girl networks that he targeted for state investigations.  Now Rod Blagojevich finds himself in federal custody for official corruption.

That doesn’t mean that Republicans don’t have a history in governorships.  George Ryan preceded Blagojevich and retired before he got indicted, and now he’s serving time in prison.  John Rowland got bounced out of Connecticut’s governorship for wire and tax fraud.    Those happened two presidential cycles ago, though, and since then the Democrats — who won the 2006 midterms on the basis of official corruption — have lost three major state governors.

That 2006 election allowed voters to punish Republicans for the crimes of people like Randy “Duke” Cunningham, Bob Ney, and the peccadilloes of Mark Foley.  Will they do the same in 2010 after this streak?  Republicans lost Ohio after the scandals that surrounded Bob Taft.  Can Republicans rebound in Illinois, New Jersey, and New York as the party of reform?