Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants Illinois Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn to do it. Illinois’ senior Senator Dick Durbin wants a special election. The spirit of Chicago politics might argue for putting the seat on Craigslist. Or maybe Priceline.com. But surely we can come up with something more creative than that… UPDATE: Commenter dbrddr informs [...]
I’ve been watching cable news this afternon–I know, get a life!–and you know, Barack Obama comes from the same state as Rod Blagoyevich. That is really suspicious! What did he know and when did he know it? This is the first major scandal of the Obama Administration! He has to explain himself. You notice he [...]
Amidst all the auto bailout drama today, Rahm Emanuel, Larry Summers and Phil Schiliro’s visit to the Hill went relatively unnoticed. The three Obama wise men met with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid talking about what the stimulus package might look like when Congress reconvenes next year and other legislative issues expected to come up [...]
Looking for a relatively new laptop that’s only been semi-abused by some 20-something campaign staffer? Or a blackberry that once helped to elect John McCain president? How about a coffee table McCain may or may not have once put his feet up on? All these ideal Christmas gifts for those with Republican loved ones will [...]
The Good Governor Blagojevich is back on the job, per the Chicago Tribune. [Spokesman Lucio] Guerrero said Blagojevich is back at work in the James R. Thompson Center and has met with staff to discuss the state budget and short term loans to help alleviate some of the state’s money pressures. Guerrero said Blagojevich is [...]
Fitzgerald’s press release from yesterday is a veritable feast, but my favorite bit of all is Blago’s delusional view of his own future: Throughout the intercepted conversations, Blagojevich also allegedly spent significant time weighing the option of appointing himself to the open Senate seat and expressed a variety of reasons for doing so, including: frustration [...]
Marc Ambinder has beaten me to the punch on this one, but I still think it worthwhile to take a look back at the well-worn Washington practice of declining to comment because of an “ongoing investigation.” The most famous “ongoing investigation” dodge in recent memory, of course, was the White House’s concerted attempt, from President [...]
Who can resist a little laugh when the governor of a major state is caught by the FBI acting like a mobster? Some of the best: 1. Who (Allegedly) Said It. Rod Blago v. Tony Soprano, via The Daily Beast. 2. Glengarry Rod Blagojevich (a Mamet tribute), via Salon. 3. “Tape my conversations … openly [...]
They have a deal. They don’t have a deal. They have a deal in principal. They have a “conceptual” deal. They really and truly don’t have a deal. I’m up on Capitol Hill today and I’m getting more whiplash than if I were at Wimbledon. Depending on who you talk to Senate Republicans have either [...]
Word that Pakistan has arrested–no, detained–Masood Azhar, the leader of the terrorist group that pulled off the Mumbai assault is being greeted by great skepticism in both the U.S. and India, and with good reason. For one thing, Azhar had been similarly arrested in 2001, after his Lashkar-a-Taiba terrorists invaded the Indian parliament, but released 11 [...]
