Illinois Governor rod blagojevich taken into custody

[DonHutson]

I'd give you a compliment despite your insult for me. I think the little joke (although in fact, I'm really serious about it) went right over the heads of everybody in hear but you. Nice catch.

That senate race was the joke. The Republicans would've been better off with the guy they actually nominated. He got brought down in a sex scandal where he just wanted to have sex with his own wife. Weird sex, maybe, but still... that had to be a first.

Anyway, Alan Keyes was certainly an ironic choice for a party that was waving the white flag in that race.

[bobblehead]

BTW, I think Jessie Jackson is a good man. Don't know anything about his kid.

As long as you aren't a jew in himey town who's food he spit in.

[bobblehead]

I'm not saying they should appoint a black senator, although an excellent choice would be the black who finished second to Obama when he was elected.

That's a good one, I bet you didn't think of this yourself.

Aw Harlan, that's insulting. EVERYTHING I post--except for a few rare occasions where I say otherwise--comes straight from my own head.

I'd give you a compliment despite your insult for me. I think the little joke (although in fact, I'm really serious about it) went right over the heads of everybody in hear but you. Nice catch.

Tex, please. Some of knew of keyes when he ran for president in 1996 and were very aware of his running against obama.

[texaspackerbacker]

I still can't see how people could vote for a piece of crap like Obama over somebody like Keyes who stands for and exemplefies everything that's good in America.

[Badgerinmaine]

Bobby Rush, a black Representative from Illinois, made news three days ago with this quote:

“With the resignation of President-elect Obama, we now have no African American in the United States Senate, and we believe it will be a national disgrace to not have this seat filled by one of the many capable African American Illinois politicians."

http://www.chicagodefender.com/article-2611-cong-bobby-rush-urges-governor-to-choose-black-senate-replacement.html

I found this position offensive. Where is the gay Senator? The athiest Senator? Any Mexicans up there - I demand an appointment!

Where is the gay senator? Maybe Idaho? Where is the Mexican senator? How about Colorado? Where is the atheist senator? Are you kidding? Out of 58 or so Dems, I'd be surprised if there was less than 30 or 40 atheists.

There have been rumors about a variety of senators and whether or not they are gay (even aside from Larry Craig); certainly the House has gays and lesbians like Barney Frank and Tammy Baldwin (Tammy was a year ahead of me at Madison West). Senator Ken Salazar from Colorado is indeed Mexican-American; there are also at least two senators (Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Mel Martinez of Florida) who are children of Cuban immigrants. I don't know of any atheist senators; however, Pete Stark, a Democrat in the House from California, became the first member in the history of Congress to announce that he was an atheist recently. I doubt thei rnumbers are as high as TPB suggests, but I would bet there might be at least a few agnostics in there. Women are still underrepresented in the Senate--I believe there are now 16 women there out of 100--but that's up dramatically from the early 1990s when there were two.

Blacks are roughly 12% of the population of the US, but with Obama out would have zero senators. Since the end of Reconstruction, there has been a grand total of three: Edward Brooke (Republican from Mass., knocked out of office by Paul Tsongas), and Carole Moseley-Braun and Barack Obama from Illinois. That's it. I think blacks have as good of a claim on being underrepresented in the Senate as anybody. That said, race shouldn't the the sole criterion for selecting a senator. However, representation isn't totally about ideology, either.