It appears Senator Dick Durbin might have some difficult questions to answer about what he knew about Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s auctioning of Obama’s Illinois Senate seat, and when he knew it:

Just two weeks before his arrest on corruption charges, then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich floated a plan to nominate to the U.S. Senate the daughter of his biggest political rival in return for concessions on his pet projects, people familiar with the plan told The Associated Press.
Blagojevich told fellow Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin he was thinking of naming Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan to the seat vacated when Barack Obama won the presidential election, according to two Durbin aides who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The 10-minute conversation took place Nov. 24 as Durbin was in his car using his cell phone, according to the aides. One aide said Durbin considered the idea an “innocuous compromise” and offered to help, but was told by the governor to “do nothing,” and never heard more on the matter..
Durbin volunteered to call the attorney general or the speaker to get the ball rolling and possibly broker an agreement, the aides said.

“Innocuous compromise”? How much would Blago have had to demand before it became not so innocuous?

Hat tip, Moe Lane.