More Good News for the Chicago Machine

| May 26, 2009

WCBS is reporting that Burris is in fact a POS floating happily in the cesspool that is Chicago.

Sen. Roland Burris was recorded on an FBI wiretap suggesting that he could write a check to former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s campaign before the ousted governor appointed Burris to the Senate, reports CBS station WBBM-TV in Chicago.

The details of the conversation emerged after a federal judge said Tuesday he would allow the U.S. Senate Ethics Committee to hear a federal wiretap of former Blagojevich’s brother, Rob, having a fund-raising conversation with Burris.

Sources tell WBBM the wiretapped phone conversation occurred on Nov. 18 while Blagojevich was still governor and before he named Burris to President Barack Obama’s former U.S. Senate seat.

Sources say that on the tape, Burris suggests that he could contribute, or have associates contribute, money to the Blagojevich campaign. Burris also expresses desire to be appointed to the U.S. Senate.

Is anybody with a spoonful of gray matter surprised by this?

In other news Caroline Kennedy was house shopping in Chicago today.

Category: Politics

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HM2(FMF/SW)Ret.

I cannot believe that the State legislature and the U.S. Senate let this thing stand. But, why wouldn’t the FBI move on Burris if they had this evidence before he was appointed? Wasn’t Blago selling Obama’s seat the reason they popped him in the first place?

UpNorth

Good questions, HM2. Be nice to get some answers from the dems on this one. Maybe the Feeb’s didn’t forward the info to the 0 or the Senate? Or, maybe they did, and it was ignored.

HM2(FMF/SW)Ret.

There needs to be an investigation into this. Moreover, Buris needs ot be impeached and replaced. He should have never been seated in the first place.

Matt

Dems in control of Congress, ain’t gonna happen.
Dems in control of the Justice Department, ain’t gonna happen.

HM2(FMF/SW)Ret.

The investigation is unlikely. The impeachment very well may. Remember that nobody wanted this guy but they couldn’t figure out how to keep it from happening.