Predictable: Roland Burris Gets His Senate Seat

January 12, 2009 · Filed Under Politics

Corrupt gov. Rod “The Hair” Blagojevich shrewdly played Harry Reid and the democrats like a fiddle. He correctly surmised that in the politically correct atmosphere we all currently reside in, the race card could successfully be played against the liberal democrats in the senate.

He noticed that without Barack, the senate had no black people in it. Since the race card is the favorite card in Chicago he pulled it out and named Roland Burris to the U.S. senate. Then sat back and dared Harry Reid not to seat him.

Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush (and former black panther) compared the reluctance of the senate to seat Burris a form of “lynching” and “hanging.” A day or so later Rush compared the white senators holding up Burris’s senate seat to “George Wallace” and “Bull Connor.”

Once those words were uttered it was no longer a matter of if Burris would be seated but when. That kind of divisive race-baiting is like a dog whistle to a liberal democrat.

Predictably, Harry Reid folded like a cheap suit and Burris will now get to be a U.S. senator.

For the record, I don’t dispute Burris’s qualifications to be a senator, I just hate it when people so blatantly use the race card to get ahead.