HANG WIFF 'UM, ROLAND
Republicans and Democrats in the state and in the Congress should stop calling for newly minted Illinois Senator Roland Burris to resign.
Burris will crack neither the ten best nor ten worst from Illinois' long roster of 47 Senators going back to 1818. He will be a loyal member of the Democratic caucus as a new administration tries to dis-entangle America from two catastrophic wars and a collapsing economy, brought on, in part, by those catastrophic wars.
He is a target of Republicans who want nothing more to than to spend fifty millions of unavailable dollars for a slim chance to grab a Senate seat out of the Blagojevich scandal for a mere twenty-one months. He is a target of Democrats who are so embarrassed by the Blagojevich scandal they want to undue the legal appointment of Burris by a soon to be impeached Governor.
Both groups say they are tired of the political freak show that is Illinois politics. They can end the freak show by just shutting up and getting down to the business of trying to salvage Illinois and America from becoming the third rate political and economic entities they are rapidly becoming.
Originally published in Chicago Tribune, March 1, 2009
Burris will crack neither the ten best nor ten worst from Illinois' long roster of 47 Senators going back to 1818. He will be a loyal member of the Democratic caucus as a new administration tries to dis-entangle America from two catastrophic wars and a collapsing economy, brought on, in part, by those catastrophic wars.
He is a target of Republicans who want nothing more to than to spend fifty millions of unavailable dollars for a slim chance to grab a Senate seat out of the Blagojevich scandal for a mere twenty-one months. He is a target of Democrats who are so embarrassed by the Blagojevich scandal they want to undue the legal appointment of Burris by a soon to be impeached Governor.
Both groups say they are tired of the political freak show that is Illinois politics. They can end the freak show by just shutting up and getting down to the business of trying to salvage Illinois and America from becoming the third rate political and economic entities they are rapidly becoming.
Originally published in Chicago Tribune, March 1, 2009
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