Rick Moran follows up: (Did Democrats cover up Burris lies to get Stimulus bill passed?)

My friend Tom Elia at the New Editor raised this question in an email and it bears looking into.

The fact is, if this mess with Burris had been made public back on February 5 when the Illinois senator submitted his “corrected” affidavit to the Democratic Majority Leader, there is a pretty good chance that the Illinois senator would not have been able to vote on the stimulus bill in the senate on the 13th.

Why? Because pressure would have been building – as it is now – for the “lying little snea...

Rick Moran follows up: (Did Democrats cover up Burris lies to get Stimulus bill passed?)

My friend Tom Elia at the New Editor raised this question in an email and it bears looking into.

The fact is, if this mess with Burris had been made public back on February 5 when the Illinois senator submitted his “corrected” affidavit to the Democratic Majority Leader, there is a pretty good chance that the Illinois senator would not have been able to vote on the stimulus bill in the senate on the 13th.

Why? Because pressure would have been building – as it is now – for the “lying little sneak” to resign his seat. It seems surreal but Roland Burris has now changed his story about contacts with Governor Blagojevich’s henchmen about the senate seat at least 4 times – twice yesterday alone. If he had been forced to resign in a similar time period that is shaping up now, there would have been no 60th vote on the stimulus bill in the senate, no cloture, and the bill would have been sent back to conference.

So which Democrats knew of this affadavit and why wasn’t it made public immediately? Burris says he sent the affadavit to the chairman of the impeachment committee who then promptly sat on it until the Chicago Sun Times got wind of the story at which point Burris himself gave it to the newspaper. The committee chairman was Barbara Flynn Currie, House Majority Leader.

Barbara Flynn Currie has represented the 25th Congressional district in the Illinois House since 1979. That district includes Hyde Park – former home for many years of President Barack Obama.

Just sayin’.

After yesterday's magical, race-cardulous press conference, where tainted Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich announced that he was going to appoint former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris to the Senate, Burris went on the charm offensive, pressing his case in the media. His arguments basically boil down to: Blago's problems have nothing to do with me

Of course, Burris' appointment puts him on collision course with Senate Democrats who want to avoid getting mired in Blagojevich's sleaze in any way.....

Asked about the dark cloud that hovers over Blago's every move on this morning's Today show, Burris sidestepped the issue, attesting to phone calls from supporters and insisting that "...

After yesterday's magical, race-cardulous press conference, where tainted Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich announced that he was going to appoint former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris to the Senate, Burris went on the charm offensive, pressing his case in the media. His arguments basically boil down to: Blago's problems have nothing to do with me

Of course, Burris' appointment puts him on collision course with Senate Democrats who want to avoid getting mired in Blagojevich's sleaze in any way.....

Asked about the dark cloud that hovers over Blago's every move on this morning's Today show, Burris sidestepped the issue, attesting to phone calls from supporters and insisting that "no one has questioned" Blagojevich's statutory authority to make an appointment. Naturally, this ignores the fact that Patrick Fitzgerald said he released his wiretap transcripts precisely because he wanted to forestall a tainted appointment. "I have nothing to do with [Blagojevich's] problems," insisted Burris.

But as Dan Conley, former speechwriter to Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, points out, it is impossible to separate Burris from Blago's problems because Burris is being used by the governor as the solution to his problems:


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