Pelosi Backs Emanuel for Obama's Senate Seat (Novak - take as you will)

[wyldwolf]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi "is reported to be privately talking about Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the House Democratic Caucus chairman, as the next senator from Illinois if Sen. Barack Obama wins the presidential election," according to Robert Novak.

"The same source said Pelosi indicated that House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer would be her eventual successor as speaker, even though she opposed his election to the second-ranking leadership position. Emanuel has been widely mentioned as the speaker of the next decade."

http://www.suntimes.com/news/novak/993409,CST-EDT-novak08.article

[Alter Ego]

1. I initially read that as her backing a primary challenger

for Obama and panicked--then realized...he'll have little use for his Senate seat if he's in the goddamn Oval Office.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. Mind your own goddamned business, Nancy.

Illinois has plenty of better candidates for that seat.

[Mezzo]

3. What? The dlc guy to go for Obama's seat? Next thing you'll tell me is his presser

is married to Obama's presser and they've been in cahoots all along. :rofl:

[WeDidIt]

4. I'd rather see Lisa Madigan in the spot

It'd be a shoe-in to keep, too.

[truebrit71]

5. Not sure I like that idea...he is waaaaaaaaaay to DLC for my liking...

..Lisa Madigan maybe?

[Blarch]

6. agreed.

[Tarheel_Dem]

8. more info...who is Lisa Madigan?

[truebrit71]

9. Illinois Attorney General.

http://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/

[Tarheel_Dem]

10. Thanks for sharing that.........nt

[truebrit71]

11. No problem!!

:hi:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

7. An abrahmination!