So when Obama wins, who becomes Senator from Illinois? Tammy Duckworth?

[sfam]

She would be a good pick for Gov. Blagojevich to select - assuming Governors get to choose in Illinois. Has anyone heard anything about this? You'd think there'd be some sort of background campaign for this.

[ColbertWatcher]

1. YES, YES, YES! Please, yes! That would be awesome! n/t

[Parche]

2. Delaware Also

:woohoo: :hi:

[TreasonousBastard]

24. Just for shits and giggles...

lessay Biden refers to Cheney's theory that the Veep is really part of the Senate, and doesn't step down from his seat.

Wouldn't that be interesting...

[Benhurst]

3. Liza Madigan?

[Eric J in MN]

4. Did in any Democrats in the House from IL vote against the bailout? NT

NT

[depakid]

6. If so, they'd be exactly the wrong choice

might as well pick a Republican ideologue if you're going that direction. Esssentially, they were arguing for the same thing- collapsing the global finanical system.

[Eric J in MN]

15. It's about corporate responsibility.

Corporations which made bad investments should have to absorb their losses.

They shouldn't get to trade their trash for cash.

[depakid]

18. It's about be willing to burn the economy

to make "a point" or to further ideology.

[Eric J in MN]

25. When one investment bank goes bankrupt...

...there are thousands of other investment banks eager to provide service to their former customers.

[depakid]

34. Recent events have proven that assertion to be unequivocally wrong

Letting Lehman Bros. go bankrupt set off a wave of repercussions an order or two of magnitude greater than most anyone expected.

Almost every single expert looking back (including this year's Nobel Pizewinner in Economics) realizes that was a mistake- though the competing ideologies posit somewhat different reasons for it.

What I find most interesting is the convergence of thought around a couple of fundamental ideas surrounding globalized economies- the far left and far right sound in many ways the same- even though their worldviews are remarkably divergent in other ways.

Reminds me nothing so much as immigration issues- where over the years, one also finds some very stange bedfellows.

[Eric J in MN]

35. I don't attribute everything which happened since....

...Lehman Brothers went bankrupt to that event.

There were also weeks of officials trying to get the bailout bill passed going on TV and saying that we're on the verge of another Great Depression and scaring people.

[depakid]

37. Seems to me (and maybe to others)

That there are people who in misguided ways, actually seem to want that.

Crash and burn- no matter what the cost to decent folks,

[TreasonousBastard]

22. Right. We're gonna let the world's economy tank...

put millions of people out of work, and destroy retirement accounts just so we can teach those sumbitches a lesson.

[Eric J in MN]

26. The economy goes through cycles.

It's bounced back before without a bailout bill for financial organizations, and it could have bounced back this time without one.

[TreasonousBastard]

27. This is one hell of a cycle, then. I'm glad you have so much...

more confidence in the market to correct itself than Soros, Krugman, and Buffett. Or every other industrial nation on earth.

Or Iceland.

(May I see your credentials as a Nobel laureate, finance minister or at least billionaire capitalist so that I may have a reason to take your opinion seriously?)

[Alexander]

5. Jesse Jackson Jr. would be the best choice.

After all, when Obama is President, there won't be any African-American Senators.

[MoJoWorkin]

7. Unfortunately there are too many ahead of her in the political pecking order.

Jesse Jackson, Jr. , Rahm Emanuel, Jan Shakowsky, and some others have been mentioned, whose names I can't recall right now. Most are currently Representatives , and Tammy narrowly lost her election bid last time. She is the head of Illinois Office of Veterans Affairs now, I believe.

[sfam]

11. Maybe I'm being selfish, but I would prefer Rahm Emanuel stay in the house...

He's a real leader there.

[GinaMaria]

12. Jan S. would be my pick n/t

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

29. Jan's my rep. We all would be very fortunate to have her in the Senate...

...but that begs the question, who replaces Jan :(

[Nickster]

31. I second that, she'd be awesome in the Senate.

[Eric J in MN]

19. How about Congressman Daniel Lipinski...

...or Congressman Jerry Costello?

They are House Democrats from IL who voted against giving the Bush Administration $700 billion for a bailout.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

33. Surely you jest..

Lipinski's my Congresscritter and he's a real DINO.. He really should cross the aisle over to the Repuke side.

Quite frankly I haven't thought about the possibility that Barack would need to be replaced. Ask me again on Nov. 5th. I don't like to count my chickens, ya know.

[Eric J in MN]

36. I'm not familiar with either of those Congressmen. NT

NT

[phillysuse]

8. Rahm Emanuel

will be the new Junior Senator from Illinois.

[kath]

32. EWWWWWW.

:puke:

[Phred42]

9. So How does that work? The Govenor Appoints?

:shrug:

[mrreowwr_kittty]

10. I keep hearing Schakowsky. nt

[dysfunctional press]

13. Blago could even decide to appoint himself as obama's replacement...

i'm pulling for jan shakowsky- rahm emmanual is a dlc puke who used to be my congressperson.

[globalvillage]

14. I was hoping she'd get a cabinet position

Veterans affairs. She'd be excellent.

[Liberalboy]

16. Jesse Jackson Jr.

[Bluebear]

20. LOL! You REALLY want to watch those freeper heads blow off!

:toast:

[lonestarnot]

17. Duckworth Yes! But how does that happen?

[sfam]

21. In most states, the Governor gets to fill the vacancy...nt

[lonestarnot]

30. What about IL?

[TreasonousBastard]

23. Here's one scorecard...

http://www.nationaljournal.com/conventions/co_20080826_2703.php

[sfam]

28. They're mentioning the same names we have...

Here's to hoping for Duckworth...

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

38. Jan Schakowsky on Hardball

the next Senator from IL ;)