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Archive for January 12th, 2009

I wonder if Harry Reid knows how foolish he looks in his attempts to deny Mr. Burris the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama:

His appointment finally endorsed by U.S. Senate leadership, Roland Burris said today he expects to be sworn in this week as Barack Obama’s replacement.

At a news conference this afternoon, Burris, a former Illinois Attorney General, extended an olive branch to the Democrats who had stood in his way after he was nominated by Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

Burris singled out for thanks two of his major opponents, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, who had staunchly opposed the idea of seating any appointee named by Blagojevich. “It will be my honor to both serve with them and to learn from them,” Burris said.

And he said he “owed a debt of gratitude” to Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White, who had refused to sign papers certifying his nomination. He called White “an honorable man” who “stood for what he believed was right.”

It became clear that Burris had won his battle to become the junior senator from Illinois this afternoon when Senate Democratic leaders dropped their objections.

The agreement came after Senate lawyers said Burris met the chamber’s rules and could be sworn in.

(emphasis-mine)

But wait. Just in cast the Democrats run in to further trouble with this appointment well the Republicans are standing in the wings just ready to take the heat:

“Barring objections from Senate Republicans, we expect Senator-designee Burris to be sworn in and formally seated later this week,” said a joint statement from Reid and Durbin, the assistant majority leader .

Has anyone heard the Republicans object to this appointment?

I have another question..have we ever had an assistant majority leader in the Senate before? Maybe that’s part of all this change we heard about. Interesting.

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