Posted on 01/12/2009 10:27:59 PM PST by malkee
Catching up: Seeking to end an embarrassing episode, Democratic leaders of the U.S. Senate sent word to the world today that Roland Burris, a 71-year-old African American, would be sworn in late this week to replace the 47-year-old president-elect, Barack Obama. (See video below.)
The move, done with no cameras present to provide lasting video evidence of the political debacle for Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Illinois' other senator, Dick Durbin, should get the political mess out of the way in time for Obama's inauguration next Tuesday, as his aides had suggested.
Even in another time zone, the cloistered cackling of Illinois Gov. Rod "Bleeping" Blagojevich could be heard. It was his arrest on corruption charges and release on bail in early December that prompted Reid to get 49 other Senate Democrats to sign a letter and announce how that body would never accept any appointee of a tainted governor like fellow Democrat Blagojevich. And a vacationing Obama agreed with Reid.
Blago, who played hardball in pre-school, bided his time and then presented Reid with a holiday present, the nomination of an African American Democratic loyalist, no shining star but someone who's paid his party dues as state attorney general and comptroller.
And someone it would be virtually impossible to prevent from becoming the Senate's only black member, especially once Blago allies leaked word that Reid had opposed naming three other African American candidates as too weak in a wiretapped phone call with the governor just before his arrest.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
Hey, anyone who can castrate and humiliate Harry Reid before the entire nation gets some applause for me — so, Blago, you are still a corrupt Chicago S.O.B. but I sure do love the hurt you put on Harry Reid and Dickie Durbin!! Well done.
I figured this was a done deal when I read the Supreme Court of Illinois decision on Burris' bid to force the SecState to sign the appointment doc. Burris lost that battle - no writ because the SecState doesn't have to sign - but won the war because SCOI a) said Burris was legitimately appointed and b) blasted a huge hole in the US Senante leadership's claim that the seal was necessary. All Burris had to do was say "my next stop is at SCOTUS" and Reid had no choice but to fold.
See that decision here
Harry “Emily Litella” Reid says, “never mind.”
Yep Blago played his party like the idiots they are......
Reid and Durbin boxed themselves in. They had to let him in after they said they would if he testified and got the signature. He has done that and any more obstacles will just make them look worse.
On the 10th, after the court ruled the signature wasn’t needed, the Illinois secretary of state signed the certificate anyway.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17295.html
What I would think would be embarrasing is all those state elected officials trying to be so sacantimonous while impeaching the Gov. You know a few of them; if not more are dirty.
‘Forward, the Light Brigade!’
Was there a man dismay’d?
Not tho’ the soldier knew
Some one had blunder’d:
Their’s not to make reply,
Their’s not to reason why,
Their’s but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson~
Next thing you know, Blago will be quoting that poem.
From the head joker, Obamalamadingdong, to the Court Jester Reid and beyond, the DemocRats have more clowns than Ringling Brothers Circus....
Guess Reid and Durbin get the first two months of the new 2009 calendar titled:
“Idiot Boys of the Senate”.
The sad part is they are in total control.
Vince
Nice poem, but too bad it was an earlier case of Christian-majority countries of Western Europe helping the Muslims kill Christians, just like Clinton in the 1990s.
I don't believe this for a second! This is about Fitz finding Obama smack dab in the middle of this corruption, cutting the investigation short, and Blago and Obama walk!
I wonder if any laws would prevent Blago from putting that letter up on eBay, like Rush Limbaugh did with his letter from Reid a year or two ago.
He might be able to raise some legal defense funds from its sale.
This episode just proves how little progress we've made since MLK so eloquently professed his dream.
Yup, that’s why I posted it, LOL! Wonder how many digs at O and others he can ‘read between the lines’ out loud?? :-)
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