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Wednesday was Rod Blagojevich's 52nd birthday, but you can bet it was not a happy one. After having been charged by federal authorities with trying to sell the U.S. Senate seat that President-elect Barack Obama vacated, the Illinois governor spent most of the day hidden from view inside the state office building in downtown Chicago. The few allies he had left have vanished. And anyone who might have been among the unnamed Senate candidates in the detailed charges against Blagojevich have been busy putting distance between the governor and themselves. Among those were Congressman Jesse Jackson...
...modest brown house on Chicago's North Side. For much of his tenure as governor, he has spent more time in Chicago than in Springfield, the state capital. Blagojevich has thus far refused to resign, and he still holds the power to fill Obama's vacant U.S. Senate seat. But it's doubtful any credible candidate would accept a nomination that came from his hand. To try to circumvent the scandal, there is some talk of the lieutenant governor, Pat Quinn, appointing Obama's successor...
...Daschle lost his Senate seat when he was beaten by John Thune, a Republican congressman...
...words embolden the enemy." - John Thune, the opponent who ousted Daschle from his Senate seat, after Daschle said of Iraq, "this president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war," Washington Post Sept...
...trust of folks from every angle of this issue: doctors, nurses and patients; unions and businesses; hospitals and advocacy groups, all of whom will have a seat at the table as we craft our plan." - Barack Obama, on why he chose Daschle to be Health and Human Services secretary, Los Angeles Times...