[April Lexington]

Nothing is stopping the ballerina fairy from running for Congress in 2010. Just resign your job and run. What is so complicated about that? if you believe you can win... run. If you don't believe you can win, run anyway because we are sick of looking at your ugly face!

[nickcarraway]

Why would he give up his job as most powerful man in the world to be Speaker????

[NEPA]

Blagojevich says he told Emanuel he didn’t think he could do that and the House vacancy would have to be filled by special election. But Emanuel reportedly told him “his lawyers thought there was a way.”

Never has someone been appointed to a House seat but leave it to a Chicago democrat not to even give a hint of respect for the Constitution.

[Procyon]

If I bet on who was the stupid one in this story, my money would be on Blago not Rahm. Rahm would know that vacancies in the House of Representatives can be filled only by election, not appointment. The only reason Senate vacancies can be filled by appointment (in some states) is that the 17th Amendment permits State legislators to allow temporary appointments.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Makes sense to me. Resign in 2 years, get ready for the 2012 election by hitching onto Hillary’s bandwagon. I truly believe Obama will be a one-term President because he will have destroyed the party by then.

[Cheburashka]

It's Blagoevich saying this. If he doesn't have something in writing or on tape or some email or some sworn testimony or some other evidence there's no reason to believe a word of it.

If he actually thought of giving the Senatorial seat to Lisa Madigan there was either a political quid pro quo involved or he was hoping to sidetrack her running against him for governor.

[Condor51]

Shut up Blago. Put on your oragne jumpsuit and go to prison already.

And we knew that Rahm wanted a 'placeholder' ya moron. That's only been in the Chicago news 93,574,563,2575,253 times since you were busted for pimping.