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Say it ain't so!!!!

Roland Burris is crazy as a shithouse rat.

Even for a politician, I have never seen and ego like he has...already has his headstone built with all of his accomplishments on it???? Who does that unless you completely f*cking nuts... In his speech he kept saying " I am the perfect choice, I am the trail blazer" etc.

Now wonder Blageovich chose him, Burris is the only guy more delusional than himself...guess it takes the heat off of him

This is the last thing Obama needs in D.C.

Wonkette had a great piece about Harry Reid BLOCKING the Doors to prevent a civil right trailblazer from entering the Senate ala Orval Faubus... link in my name

"It's beginning to look like Senate Democrats will accept Roland Burris, . . ."

Never was any doubt about it here.

"It's beginning to look like Senate Democrats will accept Roland Burris, . . ."

Given the crap they accepted from Monkeyboy during the last eight years...it's only fair they accept Burris. It's definitely too late for Harry et al to take much of a 'good of the body/country' stand on anything.

Personally, I don't think lacking the Illinois Secretary of State's signature is a small dismissible issue...given that the rest of us have to dot our i's/cross or t's else pay the penalties.

You're right, orval...that mausoleum of his is proof he's as nutty as the gang he's determined to join. Though I wouldn't expect anything less from an Illinois politician. (No wonder Obama stood out as a parody of honesty ha)..

zelda, did you really mean to say "...Obama stood out as a parody of honesty..."? While I would agree with that characterization, I wonder if you didn't mean 'paragon...'.

Remember a few weeks ago when everyone was demanding a special election to fill the vacancy? That plan collapsed at the Illinois legislature when the party-in-power realized that the other party might win.

Wonder no more, 70%...I meant paragon rather than parody. Though there is some truth in the first word/meaning.

I have doubt Burris will get the seat. He has too many powerful connections.

Should be: I have no doubt

It's strange, commonsense, but I read the "no" in your first post, though it wasn't there.

What is shocking to me is the absolute inability of another Republican Special Prosecutor and some of our leading Democratic Senators, whose professions are described as lawyers, to grasp the root concept of our system of jurisprudence and constitution, "Innocent, until proven guilty."

Secondly, that these so called lawyers took not only an oath to defend and protect the Constitution of the United States as part of their current offices, but also oaths of bar admission that also state "I . . . do solemnly swear or affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the
Constitution of the State of ______; I will maintain the respect due to courts of justice and judicial officers; I will not counsel or maintain any suit or proceeding that shall appear to me to be without merit or to be unjust; I will not assert any defense except such as I honestly believe to be debatable under the law of the land; I will employ for the purpose of maintaining the causes confided to me such means only as are consistent with truth and honor; I will never seek to mislead the judge or jury by any misstatement or false statement of fact or law; . . . ."

And yet these Democratic leaders/lawyers, can instantly, without thinking, totally ignore the provisions of the U.S. Constitution and U.S. Jurisprudence as easily as John Yoo and Alberto Gonzales overthrew centuries of U.S Constitutional precedence and decades of international law.

There are a lot more Senators than just Pryor, Lincoln and Lieberman who need monitoring and reminding of our Constitution and Laws and their duties and rights under them.

We need more legislators, senate and house, who believe in and support our Constitution and system of government, instead of continually discarding that system and Constitution without thought and deliberation to salve their own instant sense of importance and self-gratification.

That was the path and actions that spawned and encouraged the public repugnance for the preceding majority and resulted in the 2008 election majoralities. If they continue to act like their predecessors, their majority status and support will disappear even more rapidly.