With one arm around Whoopie (Behar, by contrast, looked like she was sitting next to a pile of stinky diapers) hopeless Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich skipped his impeachment trial this morning to tap-dance on the View.

It's a frame-up, see? said Blago, sounding like Edward G. - "It's curtains for you, Mugsy!" Robinson.

"I'm innocent, see?" "They're out to get me, see, cuz I wanna do nice things for kids and old people. Yaah! Hey, what's the white van out front with all the antennas on top?"

The tapes were taken out of context, he says, and he hasn't heard them so he can't explain. A little later he said he hadn't heard "all" of them.

He thought about putting Oprah in Obama's Senate seat - "What you get out of that is a car, by the way," zinged Behar.

Blago knows his Mamet - "always be closing." His appearance was a proclamation of innocence, a condemnation of his "enemies," and a pathetic sales pitch. "They" want him out of office because "they" - you know, the same "they" responsible for all the evil in the world - because "they" want to raise the income tax in Illinois before Memorial Day. (????)

And the construction of the political-entertainment complex was complete when Behar closed by nearly begging Blago to do what is apparently a slam-dunk Nixon impression.

"C'mon, just say ‘I am not a crook,'" she said. He wouldn't.