Dick Durbin calls for special election to fill Obama’s Senate seat since Gov. Blagojevich is tainted.

Machine politics at its best. Blagojevich, Obama and Daley.

Senator Dick Durbin today called for the Illinois state legislature to change the law and allow for a special election to replace Barack Obama in the Senate.  Why?  Aside from the fact that the Governor has been arrested for attempting to sell the seat (and as yet unconfirmed rumors that Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. offered $500k for it), Republicans have held the governor’s office before, recently, in fact.  Also, changing the law to require an election shifts the initiative from the state house, which has a better than even shot of being GOP-controlled, to Chicago machine politics.  And just look how well that’s turned out in the past…

This would explain why (Democrat) Governor Blagojevich hasn’t picked a successor for Obama – arrested on corruption charges.

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has been arrested and charged along with his Chief of Staff and charged with attempting to sell the appointment to the US Senate to fill President-elect Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat. What a jackass!

Well, this would explain what was taking so long to fill the seat, with the credit crunch it was probably difficult to scrape together the cash…

An interesting thing to note it the complete lack of mention of Blagojevich’s party in the news stories, he’s a Democrat, by the way. Only the Smoking Gun makes mention of it. Were he a Republican it would be THE headline. Odd.

Pictures from the December First Friday with special guest Tucker Carlson.

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