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Burris did in fact make an offer for the Senate seat.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 27th, 2009 at 10:45 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

I am perilously close to being gobsmacked by this transcript of the Burris/Blagojevich conversation (via Hot Air). I’m not a lawyer, but it seems to me that there’s enough there to indicate that Roland Burris flat-out lied about not trading favors and money for the Senate seat.  I am not, however, so stunned as to be unable to remind people about this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this…

Hold on: let’s see that video again.

Ha!

…this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and, finally, this.  In short – and may you have as an enjoyable time reviewing those posts as I did – Rod Blagojevich’s pick of Roland Burris for the Illinois Senate was a transparent trap – and Harry Reid and the rest of the Democratic Senate caucus sprung it anyway.  In fact, not being content with springing the trap, Reid and his caucus insisted on making every possible mistake that they could, too.  All because they were afraid.  People will be writing about this act of political revenge fifty years from now, and mocking the Senator from Nevada on every page, too.

Deservedly.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • IJB

    It’s not hard!

    The Senate can chose not to seat whoever they want (provided it’s bipartisan), and Reid & co. had more than enough justification (and GOP support) to not seat the guy.

    But then they got scared by the inevitable race-baiting and seated him anyway.

    And now they’re getting bitten in the touchee for it.

    I think there’s a word for this: ah, yes, it smells like “JUSTICE”!!

  • harlan

    …all the while shaming a majority of my fellow Nevadans for repeatedly returning this buffoon to office.

    Speaking of buffoons, let’s not forget to mention a majority of the lovely folks of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and California. Oh yeah, and the selfless people of Johnstown, Pa as well.

    They’ve proven that representative democracy is a pipe dream, guaranteed to result in a Dodd, Frank, Pelosi, or Murtha, and ultimately a barack obama.

  • IJB

    All I can say is:

    Ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha!

  • cookcountyconservative

    Burris: Recording exonerates me
    http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/05/burris-appearing-downstate-today.html

    “Please understand, that there was no pay to play in this or any intention of pay to play,” Burris said this morning on “The John Williams Show” on WGN-AM (720). “And therefore, that should be the end of the story. The transcripts bear that out. There’s no conjecture.”

    Well there you go. That’s clears that up.

  • Brian Hibbert

    with “there was no pay to play in this”?

    Here’s hoping this gets strung out at least into the Dem primary season with Burris following through on his promise to run for the seat.

  • Joe_Cor

    So even if he did make an offer, what of it? A bribe that goes unreported won’t do the Democrats any harm. Or maybe we should all wait for the Republicans to jump all over this story? Any bets on that happening?

  • E Pluribus Unum

    Or would you rather come here all the time to catch a rehash of yesterday’s news?

  • The_Gadfly

    Any lawyer out there who can come up with a case that has a shot of winning, I’ll sign my name to it. This goes beyond the mere appearance of impropriety by a couple of light years.

  • Joe_Cor

    We seem to do a lot of that here.

  • Gyorc Nacain

    …I thought that ship sailed months ago. Didn’t we know he lied, like a week after his name was first mentioned? It is possible we are all just desensitized to politicians lying.

    It seems to me that nobody likes him much, but also nobody cares enough to do anything about it.

  • eburke

    don’t ya see?

  • Jack_Savage

    He has lifetime immunity. There’s nothing anyone CAN do about it – at least if one is a Democrat.

  • E Pluribus Unum

    So, I take it you read the trasncript, or at least scanned it? And also that you are at least familiar with the storyline (even if not following Moe’s 15 or so links to past statements made by Burris, some of them on pain of perjury)?

    I don’t see any unhatched chickens. He bribed Blago, or at least played along. He lied to the Senate. Blatantly. Under oath. Reid looks pretty incompetent. What’s not to like here?

    So what is your point here? That we should not trumpet this story, because it does not seem to have taken off in the mainstream? If you’re afraid we’ll unduly get our hopes up, only to have them dashed when nothing is made nationally of this, I don’t see that that’s relevant.

    We trumpet truth. Democrat perjury and scandal, especially this high up, are always newsworthy, even if nobody agrees with us.

  • Gyorc Nacain

    According to some comments at DKos, he has only raised $850 for reelection, enough as someone there said, to carve “US Senater” on his list of achievements. Which is of course on the mausoleum he had constructed in his own honor.

  • http://marshall-yard.com alexg

    Those transcripts are a riot. I particularly like the part where Burris is wining about his law firm’s total loss of clients for 2009. I think it would be even more interesting to find out what they were able to wrangle out of stimulus funds and how their political panhandling played out in Washington – what was Henry able to accomplish in his brief senatorial career? So many offshoots of this story that get uglier and uglier.

  • LibRick

    of elevating the significance of a story — just like the Pelosi story As it grows the media will be forced to pick it up.

    Many democrats didn’t really want him and carped about seating him because they probably suspected there was a Chicago politics taint on this. But they set aside reality to ensure a pliable dem senator. Makes for a good mainstream story.

  • The_Gadfly

    Does the pig sty stink before you shovel it out? ‘Suspected’?!?!

    See, this is what really raises my blood pressure when these so-called “good governance’ people come knocking on my door, or parade their theories in public. They talk a good game, but when it’s time to put up or shut up, they don’t just shut up, they run away so fast you wish there was a guy from the Guiness Book of World Records next to you with a laser array timing system, because if there was, several sprinting records would be shattered in a truly news worthy fashion.

    And after the last election, I don’t think there are that many people who still believe in the fairy tales of the MSM just looking for a good story.

  • Joe_Cor

    about the merits of the story. In a just world he’d be in deep trouble. However, this is not a just world. If a Democrat was caught on video tape handing $100000 to Blagovitch, saying, “here’s your bribe,” and then Blagovitch said, “Thanks for the illegal bribe, the Senate seat is all yours,” the MSM might furrow their brows a little, wonder if it they could conclude anything definite, and then go back to asking Powell why Republicans are so out of touch. And Republicans would go back to hiding under their desks. All too often we think the Democrats are cornered, break out the popcorn to watch the fun, and then nothing comes of it.

  • johnCV

    1. Will Illinois elect another democrat senator after Burris?

    2. Will this obvious and blatant corruption of the democrat party impact any other races in 2010 or 2012, will it sway any democrats to vote for republicans?

    Hint: yes, no.

    Nothing the dems can do can lower the expectations people have of their morals, principles or decency.
    They are now bulletproof as far as scandals. Nice, huh?

  • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

    The Democrats are still, obviously, concerned that the whole Blago thing is going to cause them to lose this seat and if we do it right it should.

    Republicans can/should (IMO) stay away from or BACK Burris as I believe he is NOT GUILTY based on any letter of the Campaign Laws, but is guilty in the court of Public opinion of Political hanky-panky and that is good for our Campaign to replace him via the Ballot box – Democrats worst fear. I further hope that Ditka will step-up and make a run – as I also think that IL will still be on a STYLE OVER SUBSTANCE kick at that time and that a “Ditka larger than life and beyond reproach” and not part of the Political main-stream would easily win – whereas a Republican Politician will be a harder battle with the usual uphill climb Chicago Thug Politics would bring to bear. (yes, “bear” following Ditka, is a “pun” while making the point ;-) lol)

    Full detailed reasoning, history on the whole fiasco, etc, in here: Blago, Burris, Ditka, etc

  • cookcountyconservative

    there is enough room on the tombstone for “King of the World”

  • larryp

    I wonder who else got shaken down for an appointment in the last few days?who would know, an the money should be easy to get.
    Spread it around, remember?

  • LibRick

    I think I understand your point but this is politics, and it’s been this way for well over 2000 years. Not really right, honest, or virtuous but how it plays when various interests, vie for power.