Illinois Democrats Recognize They Are Toast

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  December 16th at 08:55 AM  | 

Speaker of the Illinois House, Mike Madigan, abruptly shut down the Illinois House yesterday to avoid a vote on having a special election to fill Barack Obama’s unexpired Senate term. Madigan’s daughter was on the “acceptable” list of people Blago and Obama agreed to. Madigan wants his daughter to have a chance and would rather let a corrupt Governor or his flunky Pat Quinn appoint | Read More »