Hat Tip: Politico.com Sen. Dick Durbin urged Sen. Roland Burris on Tuesday to quit his job as the junior senator from Illinois, but the embattled senator has no plans of leaving the Senate. In a private meeting that lasted nearly an hour, Durbin told Burris that the growing controversy over his appo...

It's mind boggling to see the utter venality and stupidity of (the hopefully soon-to-be ex) Governor of Illinois laid out so transparently: Throughout the intercepted conversations, Blagojevich also allegedly spent significant time weighing the option of appointing himself to the open Senate seat an...