Roland Burris To Crash Senate Inauguration Party

Helmet head Rod, sooooooo embarrassing and yet so entertaining. Anybody know the stats on his lastest (dis)approval rating?

I HAVE READ ABOUT THE ALLEGATIONS REGARDING BLAGOJEVICH. AND THEY ARE JUST THAT (ALLEGATIONS ). i DON'T KNOW THE MAN BUT WHAT I DO KNOW IS THAT HE IS BEING CRUCIFIED BY THE PRESS. THE MAN HAS NEVER BEEN CONVICTED OF ANY OF THOSE ALLEGATIONS. THE MEDIA HAS BLOWN THIS WAY OUT OF PROPORTION. WE STILL LIVE IN A COUNTRY WHERE YOU ARE INNOCENT TILL FOUND GUILTY BY YOUR PEERS.AND THAT HAS NOT HAPPENED.AN THE IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS SHOULD CEASE TILL THE CASE HAS BEEN SETTLED IN COURT. THE LEGISLATURE COULD WIND UP EATING CROW IN THIS CASE.

Constitutionally, this is about the Rights of the people of Illinois, not about their allegedly corrupt Governor. The people there have a Right to be represented by two U.S. Senators just like the people of every other State. By all accounts, Roland Burris is a good and decent man. To deny the people of any State equal Federal representation because their Governor committed a felonias act is wrong. In essence, you are punishing the people of an entire State for the sins of their Governor. If I lived in Illinois, I would be in Federal Court to file a lawsuit against Harry Reid and his ilk for conspiring to violate my Constitutional Right of equal representation. If it turns out that Mr. Burris has committed an unlawful act, then the Senate can expel him. Until then, the people of Illinois have an absolute Right to equal representation.

Chicago has been a Dem culture of corruption since the late 1800's with the Gray Wolves and continues today...without Republicans to blame. B. Hussein Obama along with Dicky Turbin, Jesse Jr, Mod Rod, Daley and the Madigans have run a city & state that produced more murders in 6 mos. than US soldiers killed in Iraq, produced the biggest state pension debt in history, created the highest sales tax in the country and have one of the worst school systems in the country. And now this great leadership will push that agenda on all of us...wowy, zowy...they will probably revert to the 'it's Bush's fault' card very often.

Brad, I totally agree with you. Those senators who said that they were not going to seat Senator Burris is playing a terrible game of guilty-by-assoication. They are saying that Senator Burris will carry a fog of guilt over his head because the governor who made the appointment has been charged with crimes but not found guilty. The Governor has the duty to appoint a senator in this case and the Illinois Supreme Court refused to strip him of his powers. To me if his crime was that serious the Illinois Supreme Court would have stripped him of his powers. Denying to seat a fully qualified senator, who has a legal appointment is to allow the US Senators to deceide who they will seat and who they will not seat.
This would also deny the citizen of Illinois equal representation in the Senate.

LV Drummer, then how do you explain the REPUBLICAN former governor's jail time?
As for MR. Burris, the State of Illinois has a legal procedure and the Attorney General of the State of Illinois is following it. The United States Senate also has the right to NOT seat Mr. Burris. This is legal and constitutional and Mr. Burris knows that. His insistence that he be called Senator Burris is not helping his claim of being an upstanding citizen. Were he not power-hungry, he would say I'll wait until the next governor appoints me in order to avoid any claim of impropriety.

SciFiOutdoorGuy2:39PMJan 2nd 2009
"LV Drummer, then how do you explain the REPUBLICAN former governor's jail time?"

The Dems cult of corruption has stunk up politics there for so long I believe if Mother Teresa were elected they would have corrupted her.

I AGREE WITH SEN.BURRIS. HE WAS LEGALLY APPONTED SO SWEAR HIM IN.LET'S PUT THE FIASCO BEHIND US.BLAGOJEVICH IS STILL THE GOVERNOR.HE HAS THE AUTHORITY TO MAKE THE APPOINTMENT.AND HE DID MAKE A LEGITIMATE APPOINTMENT. AND FURTHERMORE BLAGO HAS NEVER BEEN CONVICTED OF A CRIME. LET'S FACE IT, YOU CAN INDICT A HAM SANDWICH. GETTING A CONVICTION IS ANOTHER MATTER.ON WITH THE BUSINESS OF GOVERNMENT WHICH HAS BEEN STAGNANT FOR 8 YEARS.

SciFiOutdoorGuy2:39PMJan 2nd 2009

LV Drummer, then how do you explain the REPUBLICAN former governor's jail time?
As for MR. Burris, the State of Illinois has a legal procedure and the Attorney General of the State of Illinois is following it. The United States Senate also has the right to NOT seat Mr. Burris. This is legal and constitutional and Mr. Burris knows that. His insistence that he be called Senator Burris is not helping his claim of being an upstanding citizen. Were he not power-hungry, he would say I'll wait until the next governor appoints me in order to avoid any claim of impropriety.
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I don't think he should wait because he did not appoint himself, and he is not going to the senate to serve or represent himself. The work of the people should not be made to wait because some people refuse to think. If the senate can hurry up and find something wrong with his past service to his state then they can bar him from sitting based on that finding, otherwise, they should allow him to assume his legally appointed place. I don't believe it is right to break the law because you want to teach Blago a lesson. If Mr. Burris has done nothing wrong, how does what Blago did taint him? It seems we are all consciously or unconsciously subscribing to the right extremists' ideology: if you associate in any way or form with someone who has done something wrong, or in this case someone who is suspected to have said or done something wrong, then you are presumed guilty until proven innocent. I think it should remain the other way round: Innocent until proven guilty.