An Illinois State House committee weighing the political fate of scandal-maker Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, dives into allegations of hiring irregularities today. They are preparing for a critical stretch that may result in his impeachment by week’s end.
The panel also is getting ready to hear former Illinois Atty. Gen. Roland Burris testify Thursday about [...]

Barack Obama just won another award! This one is MUCH more appropriate than being Time Magazine’s “Man Of The Year”. He’s landed on Judicial Watch’s annual “Top 10 Corrupt Politicians” list, along with a bunch of other Democrats. Shocker! Judicial Watch is a public-interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption. [...]

Breaking news: Scandal plagued governor Rod Blagojevich has just announced he has decided to disregard threats from IL lawmakers and AG by appointing former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris to Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat.
Burris told reporters this afternoon that he was first contacted by Blagojevich regarding the possible appointment just two days ago on [...]

The rabbit hole keeps going deeper and deeper as more dirty politicians pile up in the Obama circle. This time around its New Mexico’s governor Bill Richardson, Obama’s new commerce secretary, who has green all over his hands for directing over a million dollars in state funds to big dollar donors to his campaigns:
NBC’s [...]

We’ll soon get a glimpse at Obama’s own internal report that will absolve all those around him including the reported-guilty Rahm Emanuel. Don’t bother.
While an internal investigation is obviously going to be biased toward its own group (would anyone have listened to an Abu Ghraib report written by Cheney and Rumsfeld?) Team [...]

Raghuveer P. Nayak is an Oak Brook businessman and political fundraiser. According to The Chicago Tribune, he is the unnamed ‘Individual D’ who prosecutors say was being squeezed by the governor for campaign cash in return for appointing US Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. to the Senate seat. He’s a key figure in Gov. Rod [...]

The “pay to play” scandal surrounding Obama’s vacant Senate seat has continued to go deeper and deeper as the days pass. Meanwhile we’ve heard little but cries of innocence from Gov. Blagojevich. Well Hot Rod Blagojevich is ready to tell his side of the story to the public and will do so by [...]

Jesse Jackson Jr. has been acting as an informant for the Federal Government and the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Northern District of Illinois for a decade, according to his spokesman Kenneth Edmonds. 2 sources close to the Congressmen also said that, in 2002, Jackson’s wife Sandi was up for an appointment by Governor [...]

Barack Obama just finished announcing his choice of Arne Duncan for Education Secretary. After the usual laudatory platitudes about Arne, another Chicago homeboy who heads the Chicago public schools, Obama opened the floor up for a whopping 3 questions from the press. The second question asked was by John McCormick from the Chicago [...]

Despite a laundry list of evidence indicating Barack Obama meet with disgraced IL governor Rod Blagojevich and discussed the open senate seat, Team Obama has completed their own internal review and, shocker, declared themselves clean.
An internal review shows aides to President-elect Barack Obama had no “inappropriate discussions” with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich or his staff [...]