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My Beef With Burris
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Edited | COSDem Jan 15, 2009 11:30am |
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| Category | Opinion |
| News Date | Thursday, January 15, 2009 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Get out the chisel and add another line to the mausoleum, right above “first African-American exchange student to Hamburg University in Germany from Southern Illinois University in 1959.” Roland Burris is going to be a senator.
I’m resigned to that sad fact. It was predictable the moment Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) slapped down the race card at the press conference announcing Burris’s appointment. There’s one thing you can count on in the U.S. Senate -- certainly among Democrats in the U.S. Senate: confronted with insinuations of racism, this bunch of white guys will fold faster than Rod Blagojevich can rake in campaign contributions from state contractors.
If Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid can think more than one chess move ahead, he certainly didn’t demonstrate it on this one. He got all his Democratic colleagues to sign a letter to Blagojevich “to insist that you step down as Governor of Illinois and under no circumstance make an appointment to fill the vacant Illinois Senate seat.” Then he issued a preemptive statement, just before the Burris announcement, warning Blagojevich that his appointee, “as we have said, will not be seated by the Democratic Caucus.” Until, of course, he is.
But my bigger beef is with Burris. |
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