I hope this is not a diversion to keep Congress from doing their job! We need to vote these do nothings out of office…starting with Harry Reid. You think he would want another dem seated so business can resume.

Being from Illinois, I just want this over! Yes, Burris tried to seek the death penalty for an innocent man … over and over he tried to do this. Someone else confessed to the crime and there was a lot of evidence the man was innocent. Burris was trying to run for governor and using his strong arm tactics that he was a tough man and wouldn’t stand for crimes. The innocent man eventually was set free but if Burris had his way he would have been put to death knowing that evidence showed he was innocent. He became known for this while an officeholder … and lost face while in office and after that he didn’t get elected to any office he ran for so I have to assume the people of Illinois aren’t exactly enthused over Burris. When he stands on a platform with Blago and smiles and accepts an appointment and remembering the controversy over the innocent man, in my Illinois eyes, he is as bad as Blago and supports Blago and I want nothing to do with him…..and I think this is the feeling of most Illinois people….at least it is of those I know and have talked to. Burris should have said “No thanks….”. But he didn’t because he and Blago are buddies in the Chicago political machine arena. Let him sue. Because of Blago giving out so many high paying jobs to his buddies, the state is so broke now, Burris would be dead before it has money to pay him a anything he would win in a state based suit. He’s using the race card thing and it just isn’t right for him to do that. Throughout his history he has tried to use the race card to get ahead….while in college in southern Illinois, he accused merchants in the college town of discrimination and tried to fire up the Afro-Americans, even though the merchants weren’t guilty. This is not right nor fair to continually use a race card to get what you want!!! Legislators aren’t going to go against the will of the people…..lots of them will be up for election in 2010 and 2012…..they want to get re-elected….and if they agree with Blago’s appointment, they won’t get re-elected. I do think that Burris will eventually be seated but he will never get elected when the seat appointment expires. And if the current Federal legislators have anything to do with it, he will have to agree not to run in 2010. YAY!

I flip flopped on the subject of whether Burris should be seated. At first I was completely against it because he is being appointed by Blagojevich. I felt he would be tainted by his association. Then I realized it was wrong to hold him responsible simply because of his mere affiliation to the Governor. Smacks too much of what Barack went thru with the Ayres issue during the campaign. However now I’ve had some time to really listen to this guy in interviews, his speech in the church and I now see he may be politically qualified to hold the seat but mentally he is not. He is to put it lightly eccentric. He has his own Moslem that is imprinted with his resume! He seems nutty! Now clearly we have a number of senators that are eccentric and not playing with a full deck, but are doing a good job for our country. However just because there are other wacky people serving in the senate, does it make it right to add one more? I was really hoping that the Obama administration would be a clean sweep of all the old and bring in a fresh air of change in terms of smart, intelligent, sane men and women. I had forgot about the congress and senate. They are beyond his control.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/31/burris.memorial/index.html I will say this….the man has a healthy sense of self confidence. Some would argue a little too healthy. :-)

Burris is paper qualified to serve in the Senate, but he seems singularly lacking in good judgment and real accomplish. The fact that he’s allowing Blago (whom he’d earlier discredited) to use him as a pawn in this bad soap opera shows what Burris is made of.