Here's a statement on just how absurd the Blagojevich saga has become: People are so busy looking for feasible ways to get Blago out of office, even a satirical idea has to be taken into account.

Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mark Brown's new proposal is for the state to offer the governor cash in exchange for his resignation -- an official bribe, if you will:

I'm serious. Big corporations do it all the time. They've got a screw-up executive in the way, and they need to make a change. To save time and trouble, they pay him to get lost. It could be worth a try.

Would a year's salary do the trick? Probably not, but he'd have to give it serious thought.

Two years' salary? Might be too generous, but it would be better than if he somehow remained governor for the next two years and we had to pay him anyway. The cost would be more than offset by the savings of not having to pay for his lawyer, which strikes me as a real concern in the impeachment case.

Considering that Blago is alleged to have said on a federal wiretap, "I want to make money," maybe this could work...