59-0: Bye, Bye Blagojevich

MSNBC: The Illinois Senate unanimously voted to remove Gov. Rod Blagojevich from office on Thursday after an FBI investigation revealed he tried to sell a U.S. Senate seat to the highest bidder.



In a long-shot attempt to save his job, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich insisted Thursday he had done nothing wrong and shouldn’t be removed from office over unproven criminal charges and complaints about his management decisions. “You haven’t proved a crime, and you can’t because it didn’t happen,” Blagojevich said at his Senate impeachment trial. “How can you throw a governor out of office with insufficient and incomplete evidence?”