So, Granny Ried has his panties twisted up his crack. What a wuss. The only thing to look forward to is getting rid of Mr. Nammy Pammy in 2010. Your right Paradox, of all the stands that Ried should have taken and didn't, this one almost leaves me speechless.
Posted by Judith at January 2, 2009 06:56 AMPlease have a great 2009, Judith.
Posted by paradox at January 2, 2009 07:04 AMRied has nothing to say about Roland Burris serving as the junior Senator from Illinois. Blaggo stands accused of two crimes and has been pillored and convicted in the media. In our system, it is the jury that is the finder of fact.
At this time, the Governor of Illinois has served his constitutional function of appointing a replacement for Obama. Unless his appointment is somehow unfit to serve, the Senate has no constitutional right deny him entrance to the Senate.
If Reid wants to waste a lot of time, he can...but I think constitutional scholars agree that he has no legal right to challenge the seating of Roland Burris.
Posted by brisa at January 2, 2009 08:38 AMactually possess testicles
Interesting style of commentary here on TLC, which was forever going on last spring about sexism by Dems directed at Hillary Clinton.
Posted by joel dan walls at January 2, 2009 09:19 AM"actually possess testicles"
...imagine what Hitler could have done if he had 2.
Stepping over the details of the law--both the press and the public seem to have lost interest in them for the past eight years--we have a governor who has, by his own words, polluted the system spelled out in the 17th Amendment. Congress, which has a well documented history of dealing with corruption in both primary and general elections in the states, can make a decent case for interfering with the appointment of a Senator in gutter politics. There was no requirement for completed legal processes in the case of civil rights violations in elections. There is certainly precedent for holding up admission of an individual to the Senate when the appointing power is tainted. That was the purpose of the Seventeenth Amendment.
Posted by jackalope at January 2, 2009 03:14 PMWow, this is just such a mind-numbing rant, I don't even know where to begin, so I won't even try.
Posted by Conservative Ed at January 2, 2009 04:11 PMYeah Ed, it is a lot... The eighth largest economy in world and it can't pay it's bills. Run by Democrats into the ground. Education system down there with Mississippi, was once a world class system up with the best...no more, not for thirty or more years. That's alright, the undocumented aliens get picked up to attend college on the state's dime. The teachers unions support Democrats all the time and our education system has fallen behind Romania. NCLB should be renamed No Country Left Behind as we are rapidly being left behind so many countries. But they have their tenure, that's all that matters.
Then there's Pepsi changing it's logo for the new administration.
Posted by peter at January 2, 2009 09:46 PMPeter, to save time just reprint this mantra every time you post: REPUBLICAN=GOOD; DEMOCRAT=BAD...REPUBLICAN=GOOD; DEMOCRAT=BAD... REPUBLICAN=GOOD; DEMOCRAT=BAD...etc. ad infinitum.
Posted by howard hughes blues at January 3, 2009 01:31 AMBrisa, that is my understanding also. I am dumbfounded at Reid's stance. Truly.
Posted by Judith at January 3, 2009 08:39 AMHey Peter, who's your new sidekick? Not much brighter than you are.
Posted by Judith at January 3, 2009 08:48 AM