Here's the latest on the continuing saga of embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich:

Resignation. Well, if it comes, it's not happening Monday. That, according to his spokesman, Lucio Guerrero. Guerrero was apparently responding to a comment made by Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan on NBC's Meet the Press, in which she said, "We have heard that there is a possibility that tomorrow he will make an announcement where he will step aside." Not so, said Guerrero: "I can confirm the no resignation."

Meanwhile, the Democratic-controlled state Legislature is expected to meet as early as Monday (tomorrow) to discuss ways to take the power of filling the Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama away from the governor. If that happens, presumably the power would go to Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn. But Madigan, as well as many others, say that the only way to restore confidence in government would be for the seat to be filled via a special election.

Blagojevich was arrested on Tuesday on charges that, among other things, he offered to sell the Senate seat to the highest bidder.

Blagojevich, Madigan and Quinn are all Democrats.

The List. There have been widespread reports that Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the guy who succeeded Blagojevich in the House and who has been tapped to be Obama's chief of staff, has talked with the governor pre-arrest, of course to go over names of those who would be acceptable to Obama for Blago to appoint to the Senate.

The surprise, as per Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell, came on the aforementioned Meet the Press program earlier today. The "shocking thing" about the list, said Mitchell, is that it "didn't have Congressman Jesse Jackson's name on it."

That just kind of blew my mind. Jackson worked for on the Obama campaign, he was always running around talking about how close he was to the Obama family, but his name wasn't on the list? I mean, people are going to start asking questions about that, too. So besides the congressman been worried about the taint, now he's worried about his relationship with the president-elect.

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