Blago, Bobby Rush play the race card…. un-freaking-real.

I’m sure we can count on Jesse Jackson and company to point out how racist the Democrats are for refusing to accept the appointment of a qualified black man to the Senate, right?

One turn of the race card and it’s like you said.
Done deal.

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…and vetted a candidate from the corrupt Illinois political machine, we’d have been denied this never ending freak show.

I suppose we should thank them then.

Someone pass the popcorn…

of luck, maybe we’ll see them twisting themselves into knots trying to figure out which corrupt politician they are supposed to be siding with from one day to the next. That should be interesting. And maybe even more people will cancel their subscriptions/quit watching. Win, win.

Rolland Burris (a man who Blago claims has had an “impressive career” in Illinois politics) has, in truth, an “impressive career” of racking up a series of primary LOSSES.
He ran for mayor of Chicago and suffered a humiliating drop-out defeat against Richard Daley.
He ran for governor (for which he struck out THREE times at bat –1994, 1998 and 2002, against Blagojevich)
And when he RAN for the position of U.S. senator, he LOST… BADLY… against challenger Paul Simon.

Still, Rolland pompously informs us that Obama’s replacement “should be able to win a RE-election”… (I guess being elected in the first place is meaningless if you can BUY the seat and bypass the voice of the voters, who have repeatedly made it clear they don’t WANT him in any of those positions)

And, in spite of Roland’s embarrassing string of primary losses, he still believes he deserves this job because he’s “never lost to a Republican”.

On FOX, just now, they reported that Rolland claims he never contacted Blago about the position. He insists he was the one who received the call to duty about 48 hours ago.

Good gosh, this just keeps getting better and better!

Should take no time at all to get a court order to force the SoS to do his job. Well, unless they are willing to make it worth his while to not take it to court, anyway.

His Wikipedia page says:

Burris is married to Berlean M. Burris, Ph.D., and is the father of two adult children, Dr. Rolanda S. Burris, and Roland W. Burris II, Esq. He also has a grandson, Roland T. Burris.

Rod’s going to play the hardball game and drive a huge spike right through the center of his own party as a result.

He’s basically saying: “I have the power to do this, nobody has convicted me, and if Harry Reid doesn’t want to seat a black man to this Senate seat, he’ll get hammered as hard as I will.”

It’s sad to see the people of Illinois suffering under this kind of leadership. Blagojevich really should have been impeached a while ago, but now the people in Illinois are stuck with him, and he’s going to go down like Robert DeNiro did in Cape Fear.

Burris is about the only guy that Dingy Harry would be forced to seat. Burris was not considered a candidate the first time around and has a reputation for being someone of intergrity, so it can be argued he was not involved in any pay to play stuff.
Also given Dingy Harry’s tough fight for re-election in 2010, he needs all the AA support he can get and not seating the man who would be the only AA senator wont help. If Reid blocks Burris, Reid will not win re-election so he really poltically has no choice but to seat Burris. Having Rush come out and not only playing the race card but dump race gasoline on this fire only amplyifies Reid’s dilemma as now this turns into a racial and not an ethics thing.
The moment Reid seats Burris, Blago gets some legitmacy as the being the Governor and the more he looks like an active governor than a lame duck he needs to halt the impeachment momentum aganist him. He can use his resignation as Governor as a chip to get a better plea bargin from Fitzgerald. I wonder how a guy this tactful got into this mess in the first place.

Here is the unequivocal statement that sets this up as such an enormously divisive act:

“We say this without prejudice toward Roland Burris’s ability, and we respect his years of public service. But this is not about Mr. Burris; it is about the integrity of a governor accused of attempting to sell this United States Senate seat. Under these circumstances, anyone appointed by Gov. Blagojevich cannot be an effective representative of the people of Illinois and, as we have said, will not be seated by the Democratic Caucus.“

Emphasis mine.

If they seat Burris, they’ve all just admitted in the pages of the Washington Post that every single one of them is a liar, on the public record.

Now, we can imagine scenarios where everyone mentioned in that article being demonstrated as a liar to the public, in the press, in the pages of a newspaper favorable to Liberals, would not matter.

But if that’s the point we’ve reached before this next President and Congress even take office, there’s not much left to speak of in terms of this Republic anyway.

let the dems keep this up for the next 4 years.