Question the timing: Durbin supports Burris ethics probe
Hmmmm. Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin took time from his Greece junket to comment on the Senate ethics probe now under way into Roland Burris’s possible perjury:
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin says he believes the testimony Roland Burris gave to Illinois lawmakers about his appointment to the U.S. Senate was incomplete and a Senate ethics investigation under way. Durbin made those comments Wednesday while on a trip to Greece to discuss security in the region. The Illinois Democrat says he wants to be fair and review all of the documents, transcripts and statements involved.
Tom Elia questions the timing:
Now that it looks almost certain that Illinois Sen. Roland Burris lied under oath about his contacts with impeached Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (and had that perjury covered up by another Chicago Dem for over one week while the vote occurred), one has to wonder why President Obama reversed his position, and put out the word for the US Senate to approve Burris under the dubious Blagojevich-related circumstances.
Well, besides the embarrassing circumstances of his former Senate seat being up for sale to highest bidder being in the news, there is the matter of the passage of Obama’s stimulus package in the Senate.
Sen. Burris was the 60th vote on the stimulus bill with Sen. Kennedy ailing and not able to vote himself.
I wonder if anyone in the press will follow up on this?
Rick Moran follows up:
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” affadavit 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’.
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Ah, the smell of Chicago politics. Ain’t it lovely?
What does he know about security?
If Greece takes his advice, they’ll become part of Turkey.
It is if you like the smell of manure.
I, too, question the timing, but the unfortunate truth is that even if Burris hadn’t been there to vote for the porkulus, they would have gotten the 60th vote from somewhere…either bringing Kennedy back, or worse, another RINO Socialist Republican would have blown their cover in order to vote for the porkulus.
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I’m not sure Burris did anything wrong. In court a witness only answers the question that is asked–he never volunteers any additional information.
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No question Burris knew what was being asked. But if it was not asked exactly he only had to answer the question as it was asked.
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Let’s hear it for lawyers–government is chock full of them! The FBI tape recordings will probably tell the real story. However, it doesn’t matter–a corrupt Black Democrat has all the teflon armor he needs. Pity the poor conservative WASP republican in this position–he would be toast–like Scooter Libby–regardless of facts or lack of evidence.
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John Bibb
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Had this been Republican chicanery and criminality, we all know what would have hit the fan. But then again, we are now ruled by the Democrat mob, a socialist mafia. Mad Max America baby.
If all of Burris’s spit had hit the fan earlier, the Dems would have appointed someone else to fill his seat and held off on the vote until he was confirmed.
Patrick Fitzgerald, Harry Reid, Rahm Emanuael, Dick Durbin, and Barack Obama.
What did they know about the Buris situation and when did they know it?
One of a 100 questions. What was Harry Reid’s motivation after all of his rhetoric to suddenly drop all opposition to Burris and seat him?
I want to a prosecutor with supeona power and access to e-mails, phone records, appointment logs, security camera tapes, etc. etc. etc. ……. the whole nine yards.
What did Obama know… and when did he know it?
So, he will resign the senate seat, be convicted then pardoned as the pay off. Is that it Dear Leader??? Is that how Chicago Thug politics work?
Question, if the bill was passed under such suspicion, can it be challenged in court?
Greece, Italy, the Alps, I’m all for security in those places.
Always supposing a special prosecutor could ever be appointed(not likely in this “fully transparent” administration and “most ethical congress ever”), what makes you think the truth would ever come out? After all, to a politician, lying is so ingrained in their being that the vast majority of them wouldn’t recognize the truth if it were to bite them on the @$$.
Nothing, and he will prove it every day for the next four years.
I have always marveled at how Congressional trips to places like Rome, Greece, France, or Switzerland always last a lot longer than trips to Guiana, Chad, Sudan or Dirkastan.
Do we have any legal recourse?
Can this porkulus be stopped?
anyone?
Burris is a life-long friend of my conservative Republican husband. They’ve known one another from childhood. Burris is by nature a conservative, which is why they are fighting him. Of all politicians in Illinois, he is among the least corrupt. The Daly machine doesn’t like southern state politicians.
Why is Durbin flitting around Greece like an elusive butterfly, when there is an economic crisis in the US?
Also, who gives a flying fig about regional security in Greece? Secure our borders here, you poinyoin!
It shouldn’t, because they hate us MORE in those EU countries.
True, but the delayed vote would have given more time for everyone to actually read the bill and mount a tougher oposition.
I would love to hear a reporter ask Nancy Pelosi if this is what she meant by the most ethical Congress ever, but I am not holding my breath.
So what does this mean for Blago who appointed him. If this was all part of a master plan. Blago was in on it right? Otherwise how would he have known which person to appoint or would any Democrat Senator from Illinois be counted on to vote yay for Porkus Giganiticus? That seems to be what happened with the Senator from New York she fell into line with the rest of the Party. That’s the New Democrats “Party First”
Is there ANYONE in the State of Illinois even remotely associated with politics, that isn’t a Lying, Cheating, Corrupt..worthless pile of dog excrement?
True….. very true.
However, someone like Patrick Fitzgerald knows the difference. Just ask Scooter Libby, Martha Stewart, Barry Bonds, etc.
Yes, they are in cemetaries, but to their credit, they are still active voters.
And if you think that is bad check this out.
But he doesn’t believe the rank and file troops at Club Gitmo or our troops serving elsewhere.
Dick Turban and his liberal ilk are slime.
Sorry this is an off-topic question: How is it that these bozos are off on junkets (Italy, Greece, etc) on MY tax dollar, yet they slammed the Wall St. barons on their bonuses and trips? How is this being fiscally responsible? Thanks for the chance to vent.
Bull$tuff…democrats can’t be fair amongst themselves.
It’s going to get worse my friends.
On February 18th, 2009 at 12:51 pm, shooter said:
Support Alan Keyes in his lawsuit.
If Keys or anyone else is successful in showing that Obama’s currently hidden records betray a non-US birth and/or Indonesian citizenship past the age of 17, then Obama will be exposed as the Usurper-in-Chief that he is, and any actions taken by “his” administration will be null and void.
That’s a way to kill the porkulus and every other harmful action Obama has taken.
Again, Support Alan Keyes in his lawsuit.
Obama Threatens Keyes and other Eligibility Plaintiffs
“Mr. Transparency” has something to hide.
If he didn’t, he’d simply release the documents.
Instead, he’s paying high-powered L.A. lawyers and bullying those who DARE to question him…
shooter, short of a revolution or constitutional convention, nothing can be done. supposedly we elected this government fair and square, and we are screwed until january 2010. taxpayer revolt?
That’s going to be an uphill battle. Maybe a much easier solution is to allow Obama to keep “playing” at President for a few more months. It won’t be long before the results of his actions clearly endanger the United States, it’s citizens, and it’s military.
He, and his cohorts are establishing a paper and video trails which cannot be hidden, disguised, nor spun.
He, and others in his administration took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, and the United States from enemies, both foreign and domestic. Evidence will be irrefutable that he willfully, and wantonly ignored his oath of office.
Concede the point that he is a citizen of the U.S., which will then open the door to arrest and prosecute him for treason, dereliction of duty, malfeasance of office, or any other more provable crimes.
But of course, since he is the first black president, that will make him too “big” to fail, and no one…no one will have the moral strength to do what is right, and hold him up to the standards by which you, me, and everyone else are judged.
The only way we are “a nation of cowards on matters of race” is that we don’t hold black politicians to the same standard that we hold white politicians.
In one of the first articles I read on this, a Republican in the Illinois government (Assembly, Senate, whatever) was quoted with what he asked, and it specifically included whether Burris had been contacted by Blago’s bro.
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Nothing personal, but does your husband have his own mausoleum, too?
Ew, has the monkey picture been approved through Al Sharpton? This might be racist….oh but we’re all cowards in not dealing with that sort of thing.