this does more than keep him from running for senate.  I hope it costs him his congressional seat.  It couldn't happen to a bigger schmucky race-baiting jerk.

"A federal criminal complaint alleges that the ex-governor told his brother in a recorded call to meet with Nayak, referred to as "Individual D," to ask about giving money up front for Jackson's appointment. The next day the ex-governor told his own brother to "undo that [Nayak] thing" after reports surfaced that the feds could be recording conversations, according to the criminal complaint against Blagojevich."

1. Permanently live in the past, always fight all battles as if it was May of 2008. There is no future, no past, only the primary, the key event in the history of the Universe.

2. Always make your highest priority holding a blood feud grudge against all who did Our Gal wrong in the primary, they are the evil of all evil.

3. Rinse, Lather, Repeat.

First off... the man's name is Jesse Jackson, Jr.

Not Jesse Jackson.

Junior as in he is not his father.  I'll concede that J.J. Jr's father has had some fairly controversial moments in his career and has been a very polarizing figure at times.

But aside from the fact that his father is Jesse Jackson, what leads you to level this kinda racist rant that Jesse Jackson, Jr. is a "race-baiting jerk"?

Do you know anything about Jesse Jackson, Jr., the young Congressman from Chicago?  Aside from who his father is?

Or are you, like so many others, automatically assuming that he must be a carbon copy of his father and holding some of his father's more outrageous statements against him without knowing a damn thing about the Congressman you are slandering?

Do you have any idea how hard Rep. Jackson has worked to distance himself from many of the polarizing elements of his father's style of identity politics?

As for his guilt or innocence in this affair, I don't know.  If he is in fact guilty of trying to buy that Senate seat, of course he shouldn't be elected to it next year.

And while I think Roland Burris is a bit of a clueless self-seeking dolt, I think if, or more likely when, he departs from the U.S. Senate that it will be a very sad thing indeed if in 2011 we have a U.S. Senate without a single African-American member.  In 2011.  When we've been able to elect a black man president, and yet can have nothing remotely looking like an accurate racial cross section of America in our highest legislative body.

I'm not talking about 50 black U.S. Senators, because African-Americans don't make up 50% of the U.S population.  But I don't know... would it kill us to have 5 or 10 black U.S. Senators at the same time?  Or hell, even 2 or 3?  Out of 100?

Before I jump into this pie fight. I think I'll let the ethics panel do their job. If Jesse Jackson Jr. is found to have been unethical then he deserves what ever he gets. However, until such time there is no there there.

With Alexi Giannoulias raising $1 Million in a month and nobody knowing he was even in the race, I expect you'll see a lot of potential candidates clear the field, Jackson included.

Just another sleazy politician getting what they deserve. Let's hope they prosecute.