Senate Seat Soap Opera (to be continued...)

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Roland Burris was denied entry to the U.S. Senate this morning and has not been sworn in to fill Barack Obama's vacant seat.

While the State of Minnesota has declared Al Franken the winner, he has not yet been issued a certificate and therefore cannot yet be sworn in. His Republican rival is promising to sue.

My break is over, so my opinion will have to wait. How about yours ?

Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

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Roland Burris was denied entry to the U.S. Senate this morning and has not been sworn in to fill Barack Obama's vacant seat.

It takes TWO signatures on the certificate and it only has one.

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From what I'm hearing, Roland Burris appears to have a clean record and would otherwise be an acceptable appointee. Unfortunately the governor's a complete skank. Sadder still is the insistence on playing the race card, about denying the only black man a seat, when I really believe race is the one non-issue here.

As for Coleman suing to block Al Franken from taking office, I'll say this. If you serve a full term, or more in the U.S. Senate and can't muster better than a few dozen votes out of 2.9 million votes cast, you don't desreve re-election. Regardless of party.

I felt the same way about Al Gore, even though I voted for him in 2000. If he'd carried his own home state of Tennessee, Florida wouldn't have even mattered.

Candidates who try to sue their way into office are beneath contempt, they're the epitome of pure selfishness and lust for power. Coleman and Robert Mugabe are soull brothers, as far as I'm concerned.

Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

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Candidates who try to sue their way into office are beneath contempt, they're the epitome of pure selfishness and lust for power.

I disagree. He is not trying to sue his way into office, he is arguing that he was elected and asking the judicial branch to adjudicate.
It beats the hell out of the alternative which involves shooting your opponent or his supporters before the vote.

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It beats the hell out of the alternative which involves shooting your opponent or his supporters before the vote.

Sigh...you Canadians. Please leave Texas alone already.

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Was just reading today that Republicans have some real heartburn over Al Franken because he's so partisan, in such a nasty way (that and he won the election...). Oh my god Al, say it isn't so ! How can you say such nasty things about all those nice Republicans ? They're only thinking of our country every waking minute of the day Al. Republicans would NEVER stoop to meaness or partisan behavior, not if the good of the country were at stake.

Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

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Was just reading today that Republicans have some real heartburn over Al Franken because he's so partisan, in such a nasty way (that and he won the election...). Oh my god Al, say it isn't so ! How can you say such nasty things about all those nice Republicans ? They're only thinking of our country every waking minute of the day Al. Republicans would NEVER stoop to meaness or partisan behavior, not if the good of the country were at stake.

Have you done any research into what has been going on up there?

Dont look like it.

To state it the way you just did is pure drive by media bull shit.

I dont care what party anybody is from, if the shit that has happened up there is allowed, then we are all fucked.......

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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>I dont care what party anybody is from, if the shit that has happened up there
>is allowed, then we are all fucked...

Who would have thought that Minnesota would end up being worse than Florida when it came to voting competence?

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I truly resent your remark.

Florida will always be number one.
It's because of the damm yankees.

Flame away

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>I dont care what party anybody is from, if the shit that has happened up there
>is allowed, then we are all fucked...

Who would have thought that Minnesota would end up being worse than Florida when it came to voting competence?

No shit.

How much have you been following?

I mean, some of the shit is scary at best!!!

Places where there are more votes than signed in voters and the like. Hell, regardless of what ever side you line up with, if it can happen for one side it can happen for the other.

MN is a travisty. I can only hope that it is so bad that some good will come out of it in the end, regardless of who ends up winning....

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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I truly resent your remark.

Florida will always be number one.
It's because of the damm yankees.

Flame away

Why not just paint a big red target on yourself. You can make it even easier!!!

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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Was just reading today that Republicans have some real heartburn over Al Franken because he's so partisan, in such a nasty way (that and he won the election...). Oh my god Al, say it isn't so ! How can you say such nasty things about all those nice Republicans ? They're only thinking of our country every waking minute of the day Al. Republicans would NEVER stoop to meaness or partisan behavior, not if the good of the country were at stake.

Have you done any research into what has been going on up there?

Dont look like it.

To state it the way you just did is pure drive by media bull shit.

I dont care what party anybody is from, if the shit that has happened up there is allowed, then we are all fucked.......

Oh, well in the words of Senator Steve Martin, "Excuuuuuuuse me!"

Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

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It gets more fun.

Burris Never Paid Back $1.2 Million Loan

Monday, January 12, 2009 8:49 PM

By: David A. Patten Article Font Size



A leading Republican on the Illinois House panel that voted to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich says he was “cut off” repeatedly by Democrats as he tried to get a full explanation from former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris about a mysterious $1.2 million campaign loan from 2002 that Burris says “is still on the books” and was never paid back.

GOP state Rep. Jim Durkin says the $1.2 million is the single largest campaign contribution in Illinois political history. He tells Newsmax Democrats would not allow him to elicit a detailed explanation from Burris about the unusual debt.

“They were quick to object to my questions,” Durkin says of the Democrats on the panel. “It was quite apparent they were told what to say by party leaders. I’m sure it came from Washington: Let’s make sure [Burris] doesn’t have a difficult time before the committee.”

Records indicate the massive loan to Burris came from Telephone USA Investments, a company owned by Joseph Stroud of Oak Brook, Ill. Stroud also owns Jovon Broadcasting, a television broadcasting company that operates WJYS-TV.

It’s hardly news that Stroud is a major donor to Democrats. Federal election commission records show that in 2003, Stroud donated $12,000 to the Senate campaign of President-elect Barack Obama. In 2006, he gave $100,000 to Blagojevich’s gubernatorial reelection campaign. He also has donated thousands of dollars to Sen. Hillary Clinton and former vice president Al Gore.

Durkin says Democrats were “very sensitive” about questions put to Burris. Durkin first requested that Burris testify, and says Democrats’ attitudes toward the Burris appointment shifted sharply in the 48 hours preceding the testimony.

The transcript of last week’s hearing shows Durkin was interrupted at least eight times, mostly while he was asking Burris about the loan. Several of his questions went unanswered.

Some objections came from Durkin’s fellow committee members, which Durkin says did not occur with other witnesses brought before the committee.

“I just said I wanted to understand the relationship,” Durkin tells Newsmax. “I don’t recall any time in the history of this state where a loan of this size had not been pursued, or was forgiven without anything in writing or any type of dialog about it. I don’t care if you’re Warren Buffet, a million dollars is a million dollars. It just doesn’t seem right.”

Asked by Durkin if Stroud had forgiven the loan, Burris said, “I have not – the campaign committee no longer exists. I have no way of repaying the money, and I’ve not heard one word from Mr. Stroud about anything that is due and owing as a result of that loan.”

Durkin says he was also concerned that Burris testified he had not read the 76-page federal complaint detailing charges that Blagojevich tried to sell or trade the Obama seat.

“Don’t you think you’d want to know if you were going to be appointed senator what the charges were against [Blagojevich]?” Durkin asks, pointing out that Burris is the state’s former attorney general.

Durkin tells Newsmax that he found some of Burris’s responses “very startling,” adding, “With all due respect to Mr. Burris, I’m having a hard time reconciling it. It seems odd. $1.2 million just sort of disappears. But every time I got a couple of questions into it, they cut me off.”

Ironically, the $1.2 million loan came as Burris was running against Blagojevich for governor. The Senate is expected to confirm Burris’ appointment this week.


© 2009 Newsmax. All rights reserved.

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123111967642552909.html

Sorry-an opinion piece is the first thing I saw that kind of catalogs what's been happening. Ignore the partisan bent and you still have a cluster eff

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