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The Senate ethics committee on Friday admonished Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., for making “inconsistent, misleading or incomplete” statements about the circumstances surrounding his appointment to the seat once held by Barack Obama. The committee didn’t recommend any punishment. via Senate Ethics Panel Admonishes Burris – NYTimes.com. Although he did report a mild soreness in his wrist from [...] What can one say about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid? As the Blagojevich affair gathered steam, Reid vowed he would not seat any appointee selected by the governor to replace Barack Obama. Blagojevich then called his bluff by appointing Roland Burris, a seemingly harmless career politician1 who was African-American. Rather than risk being called out by [...] People in glass houses, et cetera, etc. Charlie Rangel, John Murtha, Rod Blagojevich, Tom Daschle, Bill Richardson… and the latest, Roland Burris. And this after less than a month in charge of the government. Let us “hope” that all the self-righteous rhetoric spread like fertilizer over the campaign trail drifts back to pile up against the White [...] After a career in the Senate (sort of) short on accomplishments and long on searching for his next job, President Obama proceeded to leave behind increasing chaos in Illinois. When the news broke on Dec. 9 that Blagojevich was under arrest, accused of trying to sell Obama’s Senate seat, the FBI counted six candidates in the [...] Please do not put newly-minted Senator Roland Burris on any financial committees. When asked by the Illinois state legislature in January how many contacts he had with then-Governor Rod Blagojivich or his minions about the Governor’s Senate appointment, he said he had only one conversation. Last week he said he had five, with one from the [...] Senate Democrat Caucus agrees to seat Burris so long as he meets “certain conditions”. Governor Blagojovich busts a gut laughing. I’m sorry, sir, but your papers are not in order. Mr. Burris’ credentials are rejected by the Secretary of the Senate. By the way, Al Franken’s 200 vote “victory” in Minnesota is being challenged in court and he may not be seated either. As far as we know, all the members of the Republican minority in the [...] Governor Balrog decides to sow a little discard in payback to the Dems for abandoning him. He chose an African-American to fill Obama’s seat: former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris. The Democrat Senate Caucus had vowed not to seat anyone chosen by the governor, but now, by not doing so, they end up boycotting a [...] |
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