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...ABC/ESPN analyst. "In reality, not really. Unless your name is [nine-time title winner] Phil Jackson, [four-time title winner] Gregg Popovich, [21-year Utah Jazz coach] Jerry Sloan or ['08 champ] Doc Rivers, if you lose three games in a row, you're instantly on the hot seat. I really do believe that...
...from office, voting 113-0 to create a bipartisan committee to look into whether he should be impeached. Blagojevich has no plans to resign, and the inquiry could take weeks. In the same session, lawmakers also decided against allowing voters to fill President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat through a special election, leaving the appointment to the governor's discretion. Among other misdeeds, Blagojevich is accused of soliciting bribes or political favors in exchange for the Senate...
Almost from the moment that federal prosecutors charged Blagojevich with scheming to sell President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat to the highest bidder, a diverse coalition of local, state and national politicians has called on him to step down. The state legislature on Monday took the first steps to start impeachment proceedings, and state attorney general Lisa Madigan has appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court to invoke an obscure law to declare Blagojevich unfit (at least temporarily) for office. Over the weekend, there were media reports that Blagojevich could resign as early as Monday. But late Sunday...
...Sunday, Quinn and Madigan made the rounds of national talk shows, saying the evidence and allegations against Blagojevich - that he engaged in pay-to-play politics for years, tried to purge the Chicago Tribune editorial board and, perhaps worst of all, tried to auction off a Senate seat - made it all but impossible for him to govern. "I hope the governor does resign," Quinn said on NBC's Meet the Press. "I think that's best for the people of Illinois, as well as for himself and his family...
...Quinn's behavior since the Blagojevich case was revealed has been called into question. Critics have suggested that he has been making a naked power play by initially supporting a special election for Obama's Senate seat, only to then support a speedy impeachment process so he could make the appointment himself. The lieut. governor tried to square those two positions over the weekend...