Comments on: Reid Doubles Down On Burris, But He’s Playing With Your Money

By: selise

selise — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:04:49 +0000

p.s. unless i’m looking at the wrong final report, section IV-A contains multiple pages of details on this.

By: bayville

bayville — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:57:16 +0000

…And Durbin and Reid represent the “good guys?”

We is doomed.

By: selise

selise — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:52:30 +0000

The grounds on which he was impeached have nothing to do with the Senate appointment, IIRC.

am i reading the wrong resolution? from hr1671:

1) The Governor’s plot to obtain a personal benefit in exchange for his appointment to fill the vacant seat in the United States Senate, as more fully detailed in the Final Report at Section IV-A and in the Committee Record as a whole.

By: LVLefty

LVLefty — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:17:51 +0000

A slight problem here. Ms. Hamster claims that the 17th Amendment trumps the Senate rule. The 17th Amendment says nothing about the details of the appointment, as in who signs and countersigns. Durbin’s argument may be ticky-tack, but it’s also reality. Where Ms. Hamster doesn’t dwell. She just sits around dreaming that Harry Reid isn’t the majority leader, though she has no idea what a majority leader actually does or how the Senate operates. Too bad for her.

By: bluebutterfly

bluebutterfly — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:12:05 +0000

There was speculation as to why Blagojevich was arrested now. I think the reason was because he was recorded in November talking a lot about appointing himself to the vacant senate seat.

He wanted to rehabilitate his image in order to…drum roll, please….run for president in 2016. This is on page 74 of a 78 page PDF; the actual criminal complaint filed from Dec. 7/08.

https://secure.wikileaks.org/leak/fbi-blagojevich-2008.pdf

By: albertchampion

albertchampion — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:51:09 +0000

i shall ignore. since you haven’t a clue as to how the system works.

nor do you seem to want to change it.

By: EternalVigilance

EternalVigilance — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:47:58 +0000

Reid and Durbin are duplicitous in thinking their antiquated Senate rule trumps the official selection pursuant to the 17th Amendment and Illinois statutory law.

After FISA - hell, after the last 200+ years - why is anyone the least bit surprised these pompous schmucks believe their personal whims supersede the U.S. Constitution?

And on the Executive side, I’ll say again I think it’s reprehensible that Obama’s stated that mere governmental accusation should carry the full weight and penalty of conviction at trial.

“Senate Democrats made it clear weeks ago that they cannot accept an appointment made by a governor who is accused of selling this very Senate seat. I agree with their decision.”

That he’s now flipped this position doesn’t strike me as any great support for the Constitution, simply political expediency.

So we have here both an utter disregard for the law and the foundational belief that their personal decisions are all that matters.

Good thing Dubya’s leaving in two weeks so we can start all that “change.”

By: newtonusr

newtonusr — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:32:53 +0000

Just a suggestion, feel free to ignore:
open a window and let in some fresh air. There’s more to life than manufacturing enemies.

By: albertchampion

albertchampion — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:28:56 +0000

all governors are crooks. and all appointments are for sale. at all levels. just consider how non foreign service officers become ambassadors.

and think upon how it is that some become appointed to judgeships.

paying for office is the way. and it is the way in countries other than the usa.

so, let’s get off the notion that blago is something new. and that his telephonic considerations[assuming that they were wiretapped legally] for an appointment were something unusual.

and let us also give up the notion that patrick fitzgerald is a straight usda. and that the judiciary is straight.

at its heart, this is a story of slime. the slimy reality of amerikan politics.

if you think that blago is/has been slimy, go back into this history of george walker bush as governor of texas.

a story that very few outside of the texas observer cared to examine.

seat burris. and tell the truth about how all amerikan pols are for sale. how both parties sell offices.

and as you will be learning, see how bill richardson[demtillian-nm] sold the denial of voting rights to reptillian interests/financial interests.

and if anyone would do it, investigating bill richardson’s new mexico, it could bounce so far that the entire municipal bond business could collapse, taking down every pol in every state[reptillian and demtillian].

mark my words, obombya and holder will not be conducting such a comprehensive investigation. which makes demtillians=reptillians.

By: Otay

Otay — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:28:24 +0000

And again anyone with two brain cells to rub together has his/her conclusions about the Dem senate reinforced from all of this:

The Dem senate will do exactly the opposite of what is the smart and principled thing to do. They will take a strong stand when they should just sit down, shut up and go back to twiddling their thumbs. They will cave when they should take a strong stand. They will appease the most corrupt and incompetent people if they are Republicans, and they will challenge honorable people if they are Democrats (such as DiFi being “strong” against Obama), just to convince themselves they are not craven and spineless.

I don’t know if it is a cancer throughout the whole senate, or a consequence of insipid leadership. Either way, the result is the same.