Michael Sneed at The Chicago Sun Times is reporting that Rahm Emanuel is on 21 diffferent tapes discussing the vacant Senate seat in Illinois with Governor Blagoyevich. Now wait a minute. Wouldn't it be very natural for a President-elect who was vacating a Senate seat to discuss that Senate seat with the governor of that state who was a member of the same political party. It would be unusual if some discussions were not held. The question is not whether the discussions were held--they should have been (other than the slime that is Illinois politics), but whether anything was offered for placing someone in particular in the seat. I really feel that this is whole discussion is marginal. Unless you are willing to jump in the swamp and try to clean up Illinois politics (which no one is crazy enough to do), this is just idle chatter.
Just a reminder that according to a The Chicago Sun Times blog focusing on the Tony Rezko case, his sentencing will be January 6, 2009. There is now a second case against Rezko and his business partner, which will go to trial next year. Meanwhile, Rezko has been sharing a lot of information with the government. That may be much more important to Barack Obama than anything Ron Blagojevich has to say.
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