Though he has refused to comment publicly, or to discuss his future plans with senior Senator Dick Durbin, the Chicago Sun-Times reports that Roland Burris has realized the gig is up for Roland Burris, and so apparently he will not run for reelection. He will not resign, however: Roland Burris seems...

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...

Dennis Byrne in the Chicago Daily Observer: Now Can We Have Our Senate Election? Roland Burris has made an ass out himself and us, in no particular order. The junior U.S. senator from Illinois, a Democrat let it be noted, now admits that he was deeper into conversations with representatives of the d...

And like Swiss Clockwork, The Congressional Black Caucus shows up and Blacks Fall For It. Have Black folks lost their minds? Not only is Blago using race as a wedge, but so-called “Black Leaders� appear to be enablers and co-conspirators in the game he is playing. I don’t know which is worse -...

Uh huh. How it gets more interesting by the minute. According to the Chicago Sun-Times: Reid pressured Blagojevich not to appoint Jackson Jr. to Obama’s U.S. Senate seatJanuary 2, 2009 BY NATASHA KORECKI, CHRIS FUSCO AND LYNN SWEET Days before Gov. Blagojevich was charged with trying to sell Presi...

Brushing aside the objections of Democratic leaders, embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich selected former state attorney general Roland W. Burris yesterday to take the Senate seat previously held by President-elect Barack Obama, setting up a potential constitutional showdown....

Pat Quinn’s moment is about to arrive – finally. Illinois’ lieutenant governor, who has toiled for decades in the less visible rungs of state politics, will ascend to the state’s top job whenever Rod Blagojevich steps down or is dragged from it. (Does anyone seriously believe that Blagojevic...

Normally, we might be talking about President-elect Barack Obama's news conference yesterday on energy and the environment....

The arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) on bribery charges relating to the appointment of a senator to replace Barack Obama turns what was already a difficult situation into one fraught with political peril....

If he was a horse he woulda been at the slaughterhouse months ago. Everyone in Toronto knows we have suffered enough.  Every year, since 1967,  Leaf Fans,  for some stooopid reason BeLeaf their Gawdawful Leafs are going to the Stanley Cup Final.   (God, I apologize for ...