Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid appears not to know his constitutional law very well. Of course he’s going to seat Roland Burris. Apparently, he just doesn’t realize it yet.
When Blagojevich’s predecessor, George Ryan, was governor, and his administration was rocked by scandal,he too made some important decisions. He picked death row inmates to commute their sentences. As Bigbagofwind points out, nobody suggested then that these inmates should be executed anyway.
Blagojevich has the legal authority to make the Burris appointment. And while it’s true that Congress has the power to judge Burris’s qualifications, he’s clearly qualified. He’s extremely well over the age of 30. He’s been a U.S. citizen for over nine years. And he is a resident of Illinois.
Burris will be merely a caretaker senator. He has a spotless career. And Illinois residents probably want full representation as Congress takes up important legislation. So, what can Harry Reid possibly be thinking?
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Harry Reid has no capacity to think rationally.
Rod_Patrick (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 10:35AM EST (link)The Evil Queen Pelosi somehow used him as her first guinea pig in her first quest for a crappy invention called “Head Driller for Brain Oil!”
Unfortunately the whole Pelosi experiment at the Lower House failed and wallah…. the Unthinkable (read: can’t think) Harry Reid came into being at the Senate.
Everyone is just really PO'd that...
Bill S (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 1:50PM EST (link)Blago was able to trump them. I don’t think anyone thought he’d have the stones to make the appointment under the pall of his arrest and inevitable impeachment.
The problem is that he’s now pissed people off even more than before, and any iota of goodwill that he had is now gone. I think every pol, Dem or GOP (excluding his buddies in the Chicago machine) would love to see Blago buried in jail and elsewhere for the rest of his life.
“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins
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Curtis Hier (Diary) Thursday, January 1st at 4:11PM EST (link)I was wondering if he was trying to redeem himself like maybe Ryan was in 2001.