Pelosi has nerve to choose our senator

Nancy Pelosi has shown a lot of audacity telling the people of Illinois who our next Illinois senator ought to be when her candidate Barack Obama's elected.

She's telling Gov. Blagojevich who, as governor of the State, would be obliged by the United States Constitution to name a replacement for the unfilled term remaining, that she is already presuming to name Rep. Rahm Immanuel.

What does Nancy Pelosi know that Illinois citizens don't?

Her endorsement says a great deal regarding her obvious lack of any personal or professional respect for our present Illinois senior Sen. Dick Durbin, for whom she must now believe she's entitled to speak.

This is the first time in my memory that any Speaker of the House from either political party has shown such complete arrogance by so flagrantly intruding into the inner-workings of a sovereign state's personal, political business.

But then, there's a growing sense of entitlement that's been running deep into all of the Democratic Party's circles since 2004.

That sense of arrogance was witnessed again just last week when our "less than one-term" junior Sen. Obama, publicly affirmed before a large crowd of city hall workers that he had already won the presidential election, indicating how he intends to open the Olympic Games in Chicago in 2016 by proclaiming, "Let the games begin", as part of his second term in the Oval Office.

One thing should be clear to all and that is the people of Illinois are not going to see a "Mr. Smith" type candidate going to, or coming from Washington, if Pelosi's forecast of our political future holds true.

Patrick J. Dalton

Northbrook