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Roland Burris Has a Lot of Questions About How the Federal Government Works « The Washington Independent
I’ve just gotten my hands on the transcript of last Thursday’s Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing on czars. There’s a lot in there, but the first thing I want to highlight is the dramatically incoherent testimony of Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.). I don’t know ...
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Political Animal — ... at the Axelrod family. Classy. * Roland Burris should probably brush up on some governmental details before the next Senate hearing. * Jane Hall, associate professor in the School of Communication at American University, ...

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Roland Burris Has a Lot of Questions About How the Federal…
Instapundit — THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Roland Burris Has a Lot of Questions About How the Federal Government Works. ...

Quote of the Day
PoliPundit.com“Thank you, Mr. Chairman, this is — this is — I mean this is. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’m done.”

Vacant Seat Filled By Empty Suit
JustOneMinute — Sen. Rolland Burris, appointed by embattled Illinois Governor Rod Unspellable to fill Obama's vacated seat, is making quite an impression : By appointing Burris to inject racial politics into the battle to save his job, former Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.) saddled Senate Democrats with one of the most dizzingly incoherent politicians in America, and threw the incredibly safe Illinois Senate seat open for a possible Republican takeover. Burris’s service in the Senate may one day be summed up by this accidental poem: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, this is — this is — I mean this is. ...

Roland Burris Gives a Lecture
The New Editor — Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL) puts on a veritable clinic on our democratic republic. An instant classic.

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