http://www.browardbeat.com/fields-senate-should-stop-playing-games-and-seat-new-illinois-senator/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:34:43 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.browardbeat.com/fields-senate-should-stop-playing-games-and-seat-new-illinois-senator/comment-page-1/#comment-2198 Sam Is Correct Here Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:30:14 +0000 http://www.browardbeat.com/?p=318#comment-2198 Sam Fields is correct here in every respect. For better or worse Blagojevich is the governor and so he has the right to appoint a replacement US Senator. His choice is certainly qualified and the Senate has no basis to deny him. I don't like this Governor or his behavior. But I also sense that the outgoing Bush Justice Department is doing all it can to prosecute this case hoping that another Democrat won't be appointed to the Senate. I'm also unsure whether what the Governor actually did will be technically sufficient to get a conviction in this case, and so I think the odds are about even that the entire thing could get dropped. Sam Fields is correct here in every respect. For better or worse Blagojevich is the governor and so he has the right to appoint a replacement US Senator. His choice is certainly qualified and the Senate has no basis to deny him. I don’t like this Governor or his behavior. But I also sense that the outgoing Bush Justice Department is doing all it can to prosecute this case hoping that another Democrat won’t be appointed to the Senate. I’m also unsure whether what the Governor actually did will be technically sufficient to get a conviction in this case, and so I think the odds are about even that the entire thing could get dropped.

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