[Dog Gone]

Hopefully the Dems will appoint some loser.

This is at least a ray of hope in that district.

[edpc]

Illinois Democratic Rep. Lane Evans said Tuesday that he will retire at the end of his current 12th House term, attributing his decision to the Parkinson’s disease he has been battling for more than a decade.

Bush's fault. If he had allowed the full funding broadened lines for stem cell research, we'd have a cure for Parkinson's. Oh, yeah....and Christopher Reeve would be alive, walking, and grieving the loss of his wife.

/sarcasm

[H. Paul Pressler IV]

Members of the House cannot be appointed but only elected.