Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has been found guilty of one charge of lying to federal agents, but the jury was unable to decide on the remaining twenty three charges. Now the Feds want to retry the case.

I think they tried to do too much at one time and managed to confuse the jury. They should have gone about this the redneck way, one step at a time.

Lets say that your roof is leaking in a dozen places. But you do not have enough shingles to repair the whole roof at the same time. You are short of nails, and a new storm is approaching. What do you do? You use the shingles, nails and available time to repair the largest hole first. Then you look around for more shingles, nails and dry weather to tackle the next largest hole.

The feds ought to have devoted their resources to trying Blagojevich for the moss serious charge, and left the rest of them for a later trial. Had they done that, it is much more likely that the jury would have understood the case at hand and the chances of a conviction would have been greater.

Now they have to spend all that money, time and energy over again in a second attempt to do it right. Sometimes we rednecks have the better way.