Newspapers Call for Sen. Burris to Resign

Susan Davis reports on Congress. The Chicago Tribune and The Washington Post have called on Illinois Democratic Sen. Roland Burris to resign following revelations this week that he tried to raise funds for impeached Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich after he had testified otherwise during the governor’s impeachment proceedings. “The benefit of the doubt had already been stretched thin and taut by the time Roland Burris offered his third version of the events leading to his appointment to the U.S. Senate. It finally snapped like a rubber band, popping him on that long Pinocchio nose of his, when he came out with version four,” opined Burris’s home state paper . “The story gets worse with every telling. Enough. Roland Burris must resign.” “Mr. Burris’s story has more twists than the Chicago El, and none of them good,” says the Post . “From the moment that Mr. Burris was selected, he strove to portray himself as a blameless public servant. The sad pictures of Mr. Burris being cast ... (link)