Senate 'spectacle' goes according to script (John Kass)

Chicago Tribune ^ | 1-7-09 | John Kass

[STARWISE]

If the Senate Republicans truly wanted to make Tombstone Burris' march on Washington a spectacle to bedevil the Democrats, here's what they'd do.

They'd put on some choir robes, stand outside Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office Wednesday and invite every news organization in the land to hear them sing.

They'd sing a cappella, in a mournful baritone, to mark the latest Democratic public relations disaster—the all-white Senate controlled by Democrats denying a seat to a duly appointed African-American. So if they wanted a true spectacle, the Republicans would hold hands and begin to croon:

"When Roland was in Harry's hands—Let Our Roland Go!

"Go down, Roland, Go down, Roland, way down in Egypt land, Tell old Pharaoh Reid to . . . Let Our Roland Go!"

[STARWISE]

[OPS4]

BIrds of a feather flock to the jail house.

[StAntKnee]

All this Coulter and Kass in the same day.

I’m in heaven.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Let me see if I got the point of this article.

It wasn't a spectacle; because Reid didn't beat Burris with a big stick.

[hoe_cake]

“Sumner also ridiculed Illinois Sen. Stephen Douglas as a “noise-some, squat and nameless animal, not a proper model for an American senator.”

One hundred fifty and some odd years later this could have described Al Franken.

[WOSG]

"It wasn't a spectacle, I said. Then I looked directly into the camera, as if I were selling ShamWows, the miracle fabric that sops up cola from under your white shag carpet—for only $19.99. "It's just Chicago politics," I said to the nation with a stupid leer on my face. "Get used to it." - John Kass

The Decline and Fall of America - Chicago-style

[SunkenCiv]

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Burris meeting with Harry Reid (Reid caves...)
Fox News
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Senate Democrats Now See a Path to Seat for Burris
NY Times | 1-7-09 | Carl Hulse
Posted on 01/07/2009 11:54:07 AM PST by STARWISE
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2160421/posts

Burris expects to join Senate ‘very shortly’
AP | Jan 7 2009 | Ann Sanner
Posted on 01/07/2009 2:10:26 PM PST by malkee
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2160513/posts