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You Break It, You Buy It: The U.S. Senate is Stuck with Roland Burris
Sometimes, being right is cold comfort.
As Genghis mentioned in his post, Roland Burris has "elaborated" on his testimony regarding his contact with Rod Blagojevich prior to his appointment to the United States Senate seat once held by President Obama. The Illinois State Senate is looking into whether he committed perjury and State Rep. Barbara Flynn Curie thinks it's "odd."
Odd? Really? I think it was totally freaking predictable. Burris is as self-serving as ever. My guess is somebody threatened to disclose it, so he disclosed some version of it first.
So, now there will be some sort of investigation where the Illinois state elected officials will pretend to be outraged. The democrats in the United States Senate will feign some version of concern. But in the end, he won't be impeached, unless they can directly trace a sizable contribution from Burris. They just won't have the stomach for it, in the midst of the continued implosion of the economy.
The only upside is that it will make it much more difficult, if not impossible, for Burris to mount any sort of credible campaign in 2010, so maybe, just maybe, the seat can stay in the Democrat's column. I'm not saying he won't try to hold on to the seat. He's still a megalomaniac, after all. But I think he won't have enough allies left in Illinois to make it plausible. At least I hope he won't.
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Koch Brothers, Allies Pledge $100 Million At Private...
Huffington Post - A. Terkel/R. Grim begins report with:
WASHINGTON -- At a private three-day retreat in California last weekend, conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch and about 250 to 300 other individuals pledged approximately $100 million to defeat President Obama in the 2012 elections.
and report includes:
The source told The Huffington Post that they lamented the direction the conference has taken over the years. They said it used to be about "conservative strategy" and building a movement, but now it was mostly an "alpha male" spectacle focused on fundraising to beat Obama.
This is downright frightening.
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Brooks Goes All Revolutionary
If I could offer advice to a young rebel, it would be to rummage the past for a body of thought that helps you understand and address the shortcomings you see. Give yourself a label.
Effective rebellion isn’t just expressing your personal feelings. It means replacing one set of authorities and institutions with a better set of authorities and institutions. Authorities and institutions don’t repress the passions of the heart, the way some young people now suppose. They give them focus and a means to turn passion into change.
As if the socio-political change is a matter of removing one set and plugging in the other set.
In the end, all Brooks once wants to do is point to the kids of today and say "aren't they being silly."
What Brooks wants to avoid is the messiness that comes from delving into the change where the outcome is not known before one set out ahead of time. It wraps this up by saying those who see it in a different way are merely motivated by personal feelings, which is about as asinine as it gets.
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Komen caves, kinda, but still refusing to approve Planned...
As they say, you read, you decide. Preview:
They'll still turn down Planned Parenthood again next time because of the supposed pass-through grant. Unless of course, Nancy Brinker was lying last night. So which is it?
“This represents nothing new. We have known and have reported that they are continuing five grants through 2012. This is a reference to that. The second clause about eligibility is certainly true. Any group can apply for anything. It does not mean they are going to get anything,” Ruse told LifeNews.
Geez, is the 'surrender' a trojan horse? Or in fact, not even a surrender, since ongoing current funding was not being stopped. According to this, it's all about the future funding processes, which is still not committed. Hmmm.
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Senate Votes To Ban Its Members Insider Trading Not Really
Once again, as ever, this bill (as many legislative actions) provides only the facade that our Nation's leaders are legislating what the country needs and holding themselves to the same standards as their constituents.
In truth, the proposed legislation does not provide the same oversight and consequences for Congressional insider trading malfeasance, as the rest of our nation's citizens are subject to under current insider trading laws.
We need to stand up and speak out that this is not good enough! Please, blog - send emails - call - communicate the facts to the WH, media and your own local governmental body, asking them to pass a resolution to be forwarded to your state's congressional members as well as the WH. Don't attack either party as all are culpable. A bi-partisan coalition none should support.
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Komen Reverses Course
Well it took longer than I thought, but just a day longer. KOMEN has reversed course.
We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women’s lives.
Nancy Komen Brinker goes on to deny what happened and continues to say they were misunderstood, but the backlash has been enormous, and they have reversed course and apologize.
The thing is, I think this will continue to hurt them, as they've been found out, they support policies that that hurt women.
Yep, sorry Nancy, your days in the spotlight are probably over.
I will update this with some video soon.
Read the article at http://blog.komen.org/?p=994
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Here's an interesting tidbit about Burris as well... his chief of staff is a senior member of Reid's staff... but apparently has not left Reid's office in order to take the Burris job. Very strange. But this staffer is smart and well-liked, so maybe he can do something with Burris... although people are admittedly puzzled at his recent career choice.
Burris in accepting the appointment wrote his own political obituary. He's Senator for 2 years - we'll need to just deal with him. The Illinois State Senate will investigate but it' a losing battle. There was no quid pro quo offered, so technically his testimony was accurate (if incomplete). The Illinois State Senate can waste time and money investigating perjury, but Burris in the end will remain Senator until 2010. The Senate Dems would better spend their time prepping a viable candidate for 2010 rather than trying to oust him.
Isn't that what you said during the last Burris uproar? They may not be able to get rid of him, but I don't think we've hear the last of our friend Ray.
BTW, I don't know what the legal standard for perjury is, but the guy swore in an affidavit:
That's not incomplete. It's a jeezly lie.
His initial affidavit only discussed "representatives" of the Governor. In his actual testimony back in January after this affidavit, he did acknowledge discussions about his interest in the Senate seat had taken place with friends of Blago (plural). He even gave an example of one discussion asking Lon Monk to let Blago know he is interested in the seat. They asked him if he was aware of a quid pro quo and he said he was not. His new affidavit does not dispute that testimony.
He was dancing on the lines of truthfulness, but he got both feet inbounds. Sleazy and not forthcoming, absolutely. But he still wasnt sleazy enough to have contributed to Blago to gain favor. That should count for something.
Does it depend on what the definition of "is" is?
I object to the use of
in referencing #4-gate.
Somehow seems incomplete, doesn't it?
People associated with Blago to whom Burris spoke about the Senate seat:
Jeezly, Burris talked to every chief of staff that Blago ever had including his current chief of staff at the time and his brother / head of his campaign committee (3 times). Who exactly would you say qualifies as a "representative" of the Not-Governor-Anymore?
I'm happy for Burris's sake that he so far does not seem to have actually bribed my favorite disgraced former governor, but he's still a lying liar.
Just call me the patron defender of lost causes. His only contact with Harris was to ask if there was any news regarding the seat being filled, not to express his interest in the role. And in his testimony he said he had spoken with friends of Blago regarding his interest. So what? Expressing interest is not a crime.
I would say a representative speaks on behalf of the Gov. and it's not clear that any of these contacts claimed to have that authority.
Note: I fully admit Burris is a jeezly asshat, just not one we can impeach on grounds of perjury.
There is no crime in expressing in interest, but there is dishonesty and possibly crime in expressing interest to representatives of the governor and then swearing under oath that there has not been "any contact" between you and representatives of the governor regarding your interest in the position.
I don't know if there are grounds for a perjury conviction here, but there are sure as hell grounds for calling the guy a liar. And an asshat.
sneezly confusing
Jeez, Genghis. Feel free to use the word, but get it right. Dijamo and Orlando used jeezly correctly -- as an adverb and an adjective. But the interjection, as everyone should know by now, is jeez. Gee whiz!
Canadian culture is jeezly confusing