No Rest for the Unimpressed
You go away for a couple of days and everyone’s all up in your fake-ish Senator demanding explanations about what he did or did not promise to do for your ex-governor.
Jeez, people are pushy! Let’s let the man tell it, shall we?
I mean, can you all imagine what’s going on now, when the secretary of state wouldn’t sign the petition? And we had to try to deal with all that…And (had) to hire all these lawyers. And they were looking at all the law and doing all this research. This is all going on and so we can be prepared to go to court in case they didn’t seat us…So we went out on Jan. 15, and we stayed in Washington because I was sworn in. And guess what? I had to vote that evening. At 4:30 or 5 o’clock, I had to cast my first vote in the Senate.
With all that going on, it would be easy to forget to mention that you’d met with a host of Blagojevich’s fundraisers and tried to raise money for him.
It would be equally easy to imply, under oath, that you’d done no such thing.
It’s clear that Burris’ appointment is a path of least resistance to 2010, when Alexi Giannoulias - currently getting some foreign policy chops with Dick Durbin in Greece - can take over. Madigan gets the statehouse… and scene.
So whilst Harry Reid ‘hope[s Burris] didn’t try to avoid or mislead anyone’, we have renewed sentiment that Burris is unfit for the job, now with editorials calling for his resignation.
God, it’s, like, what’s the point? Illinois can’t afford another special election. And who the hell would even want this albatross of a truncated term? Better to save your pennies and mount a co-Giannoulias challenge to the weakened Burris.
This nonsense made the Kentucky papers today. I sort of thought when I came back to the US people would stop asking me, “Seriously, what is up with your [insert name of political office]?’
So wrong.
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