How did I miss this?!? Dann aides say: "Resign." Dann says: "You first..."

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing this out.  I remember reading this story in the Plain Dealer, but I apparently missed this important nugget.

Even some on Dann's staff apparently want him out, if nothing more than to help the office start to regain its reputation.

One Democrat said top attorney general staffers on Monday asked Dann to resign. Dann told them he was staying but that he would accept their resignations.

Office spokesman Ted Hart said no one quit on Monday, and he would not confirm whether there was a confrontation between Dann and his senior staff.

Why should these staffers resign?!?  After all, they're the only ones who have been bothering to show up to do actual work.  They didn't wait until their exploits became front-page news to "roll up their sleaves" and decide to be professional.  While Marc Dann, Guiterrez, and Jennings were trying to make a live-action version of "Old School" out of the AG's office, these people, who have more respect for the office than obviously Dann ever did, kept their heads down and did their work.  Work that Dann now wants to take credit for as an excuse for his disgrace and incompetence.

What nerve Dann has to ask these people that they resign inside!  What unmitigated gall and arrogance!  And yet, Dann would want to entire State to believe that his problems aren't a distraction in his office and it hasn't affected its operations.  What utter B.S.

And the thing that is so sickening, so pathetic about Dann, is that it's the work of these top staffers that he has latched onto to justify him staying on the job.  These people do fine work, but that's in spite of Marc Dann, not because of him.

And instead of acting like the contrite and apologetic boss he's been trying to portray himself to the media, he tells these people, who have done no wrong except to express their utter disgust at Dann's betrayal of their loyalty to his office, to hit the bricks.

Every day, every story, every second this goes on is yet another exhibit for the unbending ego of Marc Dann.  He is in the office today for one reason only: it's not for the people of Ohio, for the Democratic Party, or even to try and rehabilitate the workplace so that his dedicated and professionally employees are no longer embarassed to mention where they work.  It's none of that.  Dann is doing this for Marc Dann alone.  He doesn't care about who he hurts, who is harmed, or what the consequences are.

Anyone else notice that now the media is getting comments from Dann's political campaign, and not just his office?  That he's starting to restart his campaign organization to help him fight this.  And that he's hired a Texas oppo research guy for him to start digging dirt on Dann's enemies (you know, the world, including some in our own party?)  Dann is ready to threatening to take a scorched earth strategy while the rest of us wring our hands as to whether we should just not pick a fight and let him bully his way until 2010.

Marc Dann is more than a guy of high ambition who fell hard.  He's starting to reveal that he was a phony from the beginning.  That he played us all for fools, and that he's in this for one reason only-  himself.  A snakeoil salesman who, after dirting his office, now hides behind the badge of that office as if it were a barrier to questions of his own sleeze. 

How can anyone still defend this man?  How can anyone defend him after hearing hat he told his senior staff that if they wanted him gone, then they should resign when they've done nothing wrong?  How many other scapegoats must be sacrificed at the egotistical alter of Marc Dann?  When will this nightmare end?