Obama’s Senate seat to stay vacant

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  January 9th at 11:00 PM  | 

Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate, says president-elect Obama’s Senate seat will stay vacant until Democrat Governor Blagojevich is removed and a new appointment can be certified: “At this point we’ve clearly reached an impasse,” Durbin told reporters at his Chicago office. That’s Democrat speak for the courts don’t see things our way. Durbin also said the “Senate cannot waive a | Read More »

Jesse Jackson Jr., outed as ‘senate candidate #5′

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  December 10th at 12:49 PM  | 

ABC News reports Chicago Democrat Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr., is the anonymous “Senate Candidate #5″ whose emissaries Governor Blagojevich reportedly claimed offered up to a million dollars to name him to the U.S. Senate: According to the FBI affidavit in the case, Blagojevich “stated he might be able to cut a deal with Senate Candidate 5 that provided ROD BLAGOJEVICH” with something “tangible up front.” | Read More »