"Just give the Democrats a chance," we've been told repeatedly. "It's not fair to criticize them before they've been in charge."
Well, Democrats have controlled Congress for the past two years and they've given us $4 gas, the subprime mortgage crisis, the crash of Wall Street, and spiking unemployment numbers. On top of that, we have more behind the scenes games under Pelosi and Reid than Tom DeLay could have maneuvered.
Days before Gov. Blagojevich was charged with trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat to the highest bidder, top Senate Democrat Harry Reid made it clear who he didn’t want in the post: Jesse Jackson, Jr., Danny Davis or Emil Jones.
Rather, Reid called Blagojevich to argue he appoint either state Veterans Affairs chief Tammy Duckworth or Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, sources told the Chicago Sun-Times.
Sources say the Senate majority leader pushed against Jackson and Davis — both democratic congressmen from Illinois — and against Jones — the Illinois Senate president who is the political godfather of President-elect Barack Obama — because he did not believe the three men were electable. He feared losing the seat to a Republican in a future election.
As Allahpundit notes, Jackson, Davis and Jones are black. Madigan and Duckworth aren't. If these were Republicans, we'd hear about how race was the deciding factor. Don't expect liberals to note their own political gaming. More from Hot Air:
Shed no tears for Dingy Harry over the demagoguery to come. He sowed the wind; let him reap the whirlwind. As for Burris, we’re on track to have him turned away from the Senate floor on Tuesday when everyone else is sworn in: Evidently, unless the Illinois secretary of state changes his mind and signs the appointment certification, he’ll be denied entry. If the certification is signed, he’ll be admitted but an objection will be made on the floor to his swearing-in and the matter referred to the Rules Committee, where they’ll sit on it for 90 days to buy the state legislature time to undo the appointment.
I still question why Reid thought Jackson wouldn't be able to keep the seat. He's very well-known and liked. His father is famous. He has a record without particular blemish. Why was Reid turning away the black folk?
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