Wed, 01/07/2009 - 11:15am — chicago dyke
I'm really tempted to make a Chinatown joke here ("My mother! My sister!") but the situation is funny enough as it is. Will he or won't he? I guess no one is sure. Now that's Leadership! Reid denies, says the AP lies!
I almost feel sorry for Burris. AFAIC, he's not really that bad, and Blogo hasn't been convicted of anything yet. Seems to me the rather lazy IL lege needs to come back from vacation and do their jobs. Clearly, making this a national issue has only made the Dem party as a whole look even more stupid and clueless.
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Deked by Blago
That's pretty sad.
I'm thinking it's just like Panetta v. DiFi. A lot of jockeying over "We don't want nobody nobody sent," and no thought at all for the right thing, not even the appearance of the right thing, let alone little details like the rule of law, say.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
it's not like DiFi at all --
Reid has to seat Burris and he knows it.
Obama can only hire Panetta w/DiFi & Rockefeller's oks and approvals -- important members of your own party are supposed to be consulted on picks that affect their Committees. And it doesn't matter if those important Senators suck or not or are tainted or not -- he needs them.
it's like atrios pointed out, LB
just to your point. gosh, we wouldn't want to seem organized and unified on this issue, and avoid giving rethugs talking point juice re: franken and other contested seats in the future? no, that would be sensible outside the Village
, and thus must be avoided at all costs.
Me, too! LOL!
Re: CD's comments: that and then some.
The Hamsher "poker with Harry" post at FDL makes it clear how close this came to undoing Franken and benefitting Norm Coleman and the Rethugs.
Memo to Reid: You're NOT THAT GOOD. Please stop playing poker with our new and improved Senate on the table.
Thanx, kbye.
Darren Hutchinson
at Dissenting Justice has been all over this issue for weeks, and is rightly blaming the Dems, not just for handling the media "game" badly, but for being legally and morally wrong on this issue. Go read. http://dissentingjustice.blogspot.com/