What Rick Santorum doesn't care about...

Unemployment.

Delegates.

You.

And, no, the Illinois outcome won't hurt his chances for the nomination. He has no chance for the nomination.

Shut up and eat your Romney (™ driftglass).

From the "Why not Washington?" file.

Via Politico...

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed a death penalty ban into law on Wednesday, making Illinois the 16th state to end capital punishment.

Why not Washington?

It is what it is.

Navy Cmdr. Danny Hernandez, on Illinois Republican and Navy Reservist Mark Kirk's "deployments" to Afghanistan...

"I would think that would be (considered) two weeks of annual training. A deployment is a deployment and annual training is annual training."

I guess they didn't tell Kirk that war stories are for the barroom and bedroom, not the campaign trail.

This doesn't seem very, erm…

...intelligent, does it?

The Republican candidate for President Obama's old Senate seat has admitted to inaccurately claiming he received the U.S. Navy's Intelligence Officer of the Year award for his service during NATO's conflict with Serbia in the late 1990s.

Why do I suspect Rep. Kirk's contribution wasn't central to his unit's - not his - recognition?

Quote of the day.

"We have this thing called impeachment and it's bleeping golden and we've used it the right way."

Illinois State Senator James Meeks, Democrat

Bleepin' A.

In the news…

AP - Gov. Rod Blagojevich's lawyer said Monday that a vague array of charges and evidence doesn't merit removing the governor from office, and he urged a House committee not to recommend impeachment.

In other news, dog bites man.

Heh™

Via Aravosis…

Whew.

Looks like Jesse, Jr.'s gonna be OK.

...new information appears to support Jackson's claim that he was not involved in a scheme to buy a U.S. Senate seat.

ABC7 has learned that since late last summer, the congressman has worked with federal prosecutors, informing on an alleged Blagojevich administration scheme two and half years earlier.

So…

…taking him at his word, who tried to buy a Senate seat for Jesse, Jr.?