ILL-inois: Hastert arrives at prison

Abe in Chicago

Dennis Hastert, the former House speaker, is now a jailbird. He arrived at the Rochester Federal Medical Center, a prison with better doctors, not too long ago.

The Plano Republican and serial child abuser joins former governor Rod Blagojevich and former Chicago alderman Sandi Jackson, the wife of ex-con Jesse Jackson Jr, as current residents of the federal penitentiary system.

What would Abraham Lincoln say?