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This guy truly has no shame…
Predictable: Roland Burris Gets His Senate Seat
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.
Blago Appoints Former AG Roland Burris To Obama’s Senate Seat
Corrupt Gov. Rod Blagojevich is expected to defy pretty much the entire political establishment and make an appointment to Barack Obama’s senate seat. His choice according to the the Chicago Sun-Times is former Attorney General Roland Burris.
Former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris, 71, had lobbied the governor for the position in recent weeks.
Burris made a previous attempt at the Senate seat in the past — unsuccessfully. In 1984, he was beat out for the Democratic nomination by Paul Simon.
Illinois Sec. of State Jesse White says he will block Burris’s appointment. White must certify any appointment made by Blago and has indicted he will not sign-off on any appointment made by the governor no matter who it is.
Incidentally, senate majority leader Harry Reid has already said he would refuse to seat anyone Blago appointed if it were to get that far. Reid has final say over who is seated in the United States Senate.
Blago’s lawyers say they knew nothing about a senate appointment and were never consulted on the matter.
Rod "The Hair" Blagojevich and Roland Burris
Goldberg: A Little Blago For Everyone
Jonah Goldberg has another great column today, this one about disgraced governor Rod Blagojevich.
Here’s a little taste:
...There’s the enormous I-should-have-had-a-V8! moment as the mainstream press collectively thwacks itself in the forehead, realizing it blew it again. The New York Times — which, according to Wall Street analysts, is weeks from holding editorial-board meetings in a refrigerator box — created the journalistic equivalent of CSI-Wasilla to study every follicle and fiber in Sarah Palin’s background, all the while treating Obama’s Chicago like one of those fairy-tale lands depicted in posters that adorn little girls’ bedroom walls. See there, Suzie? That’s a Pegasus. That’s a pink unicorn. And that’s a beautiful sunflower giving birth to a fully grown Barack Obama, the greatest president ever and the only man in history to be able to pick up manure from the clean end.
If that’s not good then I don’t know what is.
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