Barry Plays the Heavy

While I was busy basking in the Cub glow, Obama rung up his old pal Emil Jones Jr. and gave him the secret code. The result was that Jones will now be recalling the Senate this week to deal with the ethics bill (see some other post I made...I'm too lazy to link it right now HALLELUJAH, HERE IT IS).

Blago also announced on Thursday that he would call the General Assembly into special session today to deal with ethics reform. He, of course, wants his changes to the ethics bill to be considered. Fat chance, I think.

Jones was at a Senate Democratic fund raiser on Wednesday night and declined to discuss the matter of Obama's phone call. He was conveniently busy fundraising and didn't feel like talking about ethics.

The one lingering question I have is whether the gang will make a definitive statement about the 15-day period that Jones and cronies had to vote on the bill until the bill died (whether that be 15-days from delivery, or 15-days from the first Senate meeting following, or what defines delivery, etc). They will probably let the ambiguity linger until it comes up again and they need to delay some other bill seeking to reign in politicians greed. Perhaps that one won't result in a call from someone running for President and the shenanigans can go on unabated.