rightwingnuthouse.com - 2/18/2009
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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 ...
washingtonpost.com - 2/18/2009
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Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) must go.
chicagotribune.com - 2/18/2009
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About the affidavit Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., talks
to the media about an affidavit that he filed
Feb. 5 with the Illinois House committee. ( Tribune photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo / February 15, 2009)
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Roland Burris, resign -
thehill.com - 2/18/2009
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thehill.com —
The Senate Ethics Committee has opened a preliminary
inquiry into Sen. Roland Burris’s (D-Ill.) conflicting testimony on
the circumstances surrounding his appointment while Senate Democrats and Republicans take a wait-and-see approach to the potential ...
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Ethics panel opens probe on Sen. Burris
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RICK MORAN: Did Democrats cover up Burris’s perjury issues to get the stimulus passed?…
Instapundit —
RICK MORAN: Did Democrats cover up Burris’s perjury issues to get the stimulus passed?
Burris Was Always "Just A Liability"
TalkLeft —
Yesterday, Glenn Reynolds linked to some Republicans and Republican journalists who lack a basic understanding of the Senate 3/5 rules for cloture (and for legislation raising the deficit). The gist of the Republican argument is that Democrats needed 60 votes to pass the stimulus and that is why Roland Burris was accepted in the Senate. This is how Reynolds puts it later: Dems Abandon Burris. Hey, the stimulus passed, so now he’s just a liability. Actually Burris was always "just a liability." As has been pointed ...
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Roland Burris, the former senator?
latimesblogs.latimes.com 2/19/2009 —
Pressure is mounting on Roland Burris , who has been a U.S. senator from Illinois for little more than a month now, to resign.
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Burris To Be Seated
openleft.com 1/13/2009 — "Barring objections from Republicans," Roland Burris will be the next Senator from Illinois :
Eager to put the scandal-tainted standoff behind them, Senate Democrats accepted Roland Burris as President-elect Barack Obama's Senate successor on Monday ...
Burris Begins
nbcchicago.com 1/22/2009 — Enough about Barack Obama s first day in office. What about Rollin Roland Burris ? Around noon Wednesday, Burris' sparsely furnished office was occupied by three staffers, at least two of whom were there on a temporary basis, the Bloomington ...
Fiasco Watch: Blagojevich And Burris
dailykos.com 1/3/2009 — With only three days until the potential showdown between Roland Burris and the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms, there's quite a bit of news on the Blagojevich-Burris front. Yesterday, Burris filed an emergency request : ... urging the Illinois Supreme ...
You're Outta Here
talkingpointsmemo.com 2/19/2009 — Durbin gives Burris the old heave-ho ...
(ed.note: As you can see in the statement below, there's really little daylight between what Durbin says here and just coming out and calling on Burris to resign. And Durbin is his senate colleague from ...
Roland Burris Sworn Into Senate, Replaces Obama
huffingtonpost.com 1/15/2009 — WASHINGTON — Roland Burris took his place as Barack Obama's successor in the Senate on Thursday, ending a standoff that embarrassed the president-elect and fellow Democrats who initially resisted the appointment by scandal-scarred Illinois Gov. ...
The Burris Tapes
corner.nationalreview.com 5/29/2009 — Sen. Roland Burris (D, Ill.) wants the world to believe that the wiretap in which he was recorded speaking with Robert Blagojevich (brother of the former Illinois governor) somehow exonerates him. In fact, even if it provides no evidence that he ...
Illinois Sen. Roland Burris In Hot Water, Holds Sunday Press Conference
rightsoup.com 2/15/2009 — Nothing like holding a Sunday afternoon press conference hoping that the 24/7 news cycle may offer up something tastier to bury your story! Unfortunately for Roland Burris , the press smells blood, and is quite miffed at the new senator from Illinois.
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Burris back in Senate, mum on 2010
swamppolitics.com 2/24/2009 — by Mike Dorning
Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) received a polite but not warm response as he returned to the Capitol today, with a phalanx of television cameras waiting for him outside his office.
On the Senate floor for the first vote of the day, ...
Pressure on Burris to resign mounts —
CNN Political Ticker 2/18/2009
(CNN) — The largest newspaper in Illinois on Tuesday called for U.S. Sen. Roland Burris to resign, a day after Burris detailed several conversations with impeached Gov. Rod Blagojevich's brother he had failed to mention under oath.
Burris, ...
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