Reid: Senate won't seat Blagojevich pick

CLTV ^ | Dec 30, 2008 | Ray Long and Rick Pearson

[gieriscm]

I just sprayed coffee all over my keyboard and monitor.

[LiberConservative]

Reid can't do this. What an @sshat. Blago is still innocent until proven guilty and still governor until he either resigns or is impeached.

[BillyBoy]

>> Until Blago is impeached, he has the authority, right? <<

Until Blago is REMOVED by 2/3rds vote in the Illinois Senate, he still has the authority. If he is impeached by the Illinois House, he still has the ablity to exercise his full powers as Governor WHILE the Illinois Senate tries him for high crimes.

Bwahahahaha.

[mkjessup]

Sorry FRiend, I owe you a bottle of Windex, at least. ;)

[A Texan]

At any point did Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid mention which party fostered the "culture of corruption"? I only ask because I remember this being a big deal to some media folks a while back. /crickets making noise

[Obushma]

**What a system we got here in the Peoples Republik of IL.**

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A Republik ran by demKratz, simply delighful! Now I see why republicans lost the last 2 election cycles.....it doesn’t get more entertaining than this....pass the popcorn!!!

[janetjanet998]

Burris will be the next Senator from IL...

the senate cannot block it legally

per MSNBC: there was a house congreesman in the 1960’s that was going to be congressman under a cloud(forgot what for) the house tried to block it and he sued.

The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that Congress only has a say in the matter if there is a question about the qualification of the candidate(i.e. US citizen)

[eureka!]

LOL is right. I wonder when one of the presstitutes is going to deign to ask BO what he thinks of his replacement. Too funny...

[dbacks]

FOX was interviewing 2 dem politicos. The woman (Zahra something) couldn’t master the pronunciation of Blagojevich. She insisted on saying BaGLOjevich.

Oh well. Another mispronunciation for Rush!

[Mojave]

POWELL v. McCORMACK, 395 U.S. 486 (1969)

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/powellvmc.html

[Arizona Carolyn]

No kidding, he can’t even string together an understandable sentence that isn’t peppered with affirmative action comments.. since when are we going to give seats because of an uncle (Caroline Kennedy alluding that Hillary’s senate seat was Robert Kennedy’s and should be her’s for that reason) and now Obama’s senate seat because Obama was black should not be a black seat!

[WayneS]

Now THAT’S good Kapitalism!

[bobzeetwin]

ah,,but the Lt. Governor wants to write his own rules. Get the comment on the “people have said they don’t believe Blago is capable”? How does he know that? A CNN poll?

This is a great time to be laid up for a few days. I got chips, beer, popcorn, and a recliner with remote.

[browardchad]

Burris has given more than $20,000 to Blagojevich's campaign fund on his own and through his consulting and law firms, state campaign finance records show. Burris' consulting company received about $290,000 in state contracts with the Illinois Department of Transportation a few years ago, according to state comptroller records.

Adding to his sterling resume:

Though he is 71, Burris has said that Obama's replacement should be able to win re-election and he has noted that despite a string of primary losses in races ranging from Chicago mayor to governor and U.S. senator, he's never lost to a Republican.

If he never won a primary, he couldn't have lost to a Republican. No matter, of course, in Chicagoland.

And then there's this:

Democratic U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush of Chicago said there's "no rhyme or reason" Burris should not be seated in the Senate. He pointed out that the Senate currently has no African-Americans following Obama's election to the presidency. Rush said he plans to lobby the Senate to seat Burris.

Oh, my, are the solidarity seams coming unglued in Chicago? Rush didn't appreciate the upstart Obama trying to unseat him in 2000. Does he still hold a grudge? 

[Eva]

Reid understands the selling of a Senate seat. He bought his from the Mafia and the Unions

Now, that's a story that I would like to see in the mainstream media, or any media for that matter. Maybe you should send an email to Blago about it. He could use the hint.

[Always Independent]

The way that guy talks, I thought that senate seats time would expire before he finished.

[dbacks]

It has now been established that should a Black leave the senate, he/she must be replaced by a Black. Therefore, if a White should leave political offoce, he/she MUST be replaced by a white. And I would extend this to actually running for office. Only whites can run for a white office & vice versa.

Works for me.

[NonValueAdded]

Thanks

[Tallguy]

The senate is the final judge as to who may be seated. If there are any irregularities they can refuse to seat.

The House of Representatives did this with an elected member back in the ‘70’s. They just voted not to seat him.

Harry Reid is checkmating Blago, not the other way round. As Majority Leader he’s telling Blago not to bother since the Federal Constitution trumps State Law in this area.