Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich’s attorney, Sam Adam, says he might subpoena Obama if necessary. Let’s just say that things may get interesting in Chitown – again.

In what has to be one of the worst-kept secrets on the Senate, it looks like the state of Illnois will be not have an incumbent senator come the 2010 election cycle.  The senator in question?  If you don’t know by now, then you’ve been a cave or something; but to be fair, this gentleman has been under the political radar for awhile.  The senator is one Roland Burris.

To recap, Burris got his current senatorial seat courtesy of an appointment by disgraced former governor of Illnois Rod Blagojevich.  The Senate, after some arguing and much legal wrangling, welcomed Burris to its hallowed halls. 

But Burris’ association with Blagojevich and some other shady characters along with his ever-changing story about doing fundraising for Blagojevich would prove to be his undoing as he, for all intents and purposes, was ostracized by members of his own party (go figure!!).

Nonetheless, Burris, according to him anyways, says that he will not return to run for a full term as senator because of the lack of fundraising.  His total as of this posting?  The princely sum of $20,000.  Not only will he be without a seat to call his own come 2010, he will leave the Senate without a pension.

While Burris is at what can be considered retirement age, he will not get a congressional pension simply because he did not serve long enough to get that entitlement.  Typically, lawmakers are eligible for a pension at the age of 62 if they have served at least five years in the House and Senate combined.

The only way Burris would get that pension is if he ran for the Senate seat in 2010 and won that full term.  But that isn’t happening, so Burris will leave Washington D.C. after his term expires empty-handed.  And I am not going to speculate what his political future – if any – holds for him.

Blago getting denied passage to Costa Rica, the interrogation memos, President Obama cracking down on credit card companies and more took center stage on the Thursday morning talk shows.

Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich apparently get his feelings hurt easily – isn’t that how Democrats are?  Need a group hug?  Nonetheless, things didn’t get any easier for him as a federal judge had turned a request by Blagojevich to have U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald thrown off his current corruption case; I bet you’re wondering why.  Well here it is: it is because Blagojevich didn’t like how Fitzgerald was talking about him.

U.S. District Chief Judge James Holderman disagreed as he stated that there was no legal precedent for  Blago’s request,  In layman’s terms, what the judge pretty much said was that his hurt feelings do not change anything about the case.  What all of this stems from is from what Blagojevich perceived as inflammatory remarks from Fitzgerald in which he said that Blago tried to sell President Barack Obama’s Senate seat to the highest bidder and that his actions would make Abraham Lincoln “roll over in his grave”.

Poor Blago.  I would like to think that he knows better than anyone that a “hurt my feelings” defense isn’t going to work – especially based on what Fitzgerald said.  You better sell lots of books, Blago – you’ll need every dime form the proceeds just to retain a lawyer who is dumb and desperate enough to take you on as a client.

Let’s face it. U.S. Senator Roland Burris is fighting for his political life. Between the inconsistencies in his statements about alleged fundraising dealings with former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich and the changes in Burris’ stories, he seems to be digging a hole for himself as people are calling for his resignations – both Democrats and Republicans. Let’s see what Burris has to say about all of this.

Man, I’ll tell you what. U.S. Senator Roland Burris is one walking, talking, breathing contradiction. First he said he did absolutely wrong, then he dealt with former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich’s brother regarding some donations NOW he’s admitting that he did some fundraising for Blagojevich, the governor. Oh – there’s also the affidavits and double-speak. Burris is so screwed. The above clip should clarify a lot of this.

Man, I am telling you, the hole that former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich is digging for himself seems to be getting deeper and deeper as according to the Chicago Sun-Times, Blagojevich attempted to solicit from current U.S. senator Roland Burris up to $10,000 before he appointed Burris to the Senate seat – something that Burris did not disclose initially while under oath before an Illinois house impeachment panel.

But in an affidavit that Burris sent to the head of said committee, he stated that Blagojevich did indeed try to hit him up for that money; coincidentally or not, the affidavit was dated February 5.  On Friday, Burris – who by the way did not give Blagojevich any money – provided a copy of the affidavit to the Sun-Times in response to questions about his contacts with the Blagojevich camp about fund-raising.

But there’s more to this than meets the eye – and it doesn’t exactly make Burris look good either:

• Burris’ statement seems to lean towards the third version of events he has given about his discussions concerning the Senate seat after Blagojevich was hit with federal charges in December 2008 for allegedly attempting to sell the vacant Senate seat.
• Burris also states that he sent the new statement to House Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie after he read the transcript of his testimony before the impeachment committee she was in charge of and realized it was complete, saying it was incomplete.  Burris claimed that he didn’t get the chance to  to add several facts regarding the case and that he voluntarily submitted the affidavit so everything was “transparent”.

Not surprisingly, there’s people within the Illinois Senate who are not too terribly happy about these developments; you can count among the masses Senate Minority Leader Christine Radogno of Lemont – a Republican, I might add.  In her opinion, she said that this new statement could make things really difficult for Burris should he decide to run for re-election for the same seat in 2010; according to Radogno,

“If it turns out this was some sort of attempt to avoid this coming out as part of the appointment process, then he doesn’t deserve to be senator,” Radogno said. “I think the whole thing stinks to high heaven.”

I’m with Radogno on this one.  First of all, Blagojevich isn’t just going to appoint someone after he has been rebuffed in the attempt to solicit someone for campaign money – Burris included.  The way things are progressing, I would not be at all surprised that if Burris decides to run in 2010, then he will be in deep trouble.  Don’t think that this stuff will not come up during the campaign just before the 2010 election, because you can rest assured that it certainly will.