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Blagojevich in a bold move appoints a senator for Illinois
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As you all know he is accused of trying to sell the senate seat, and now he has just filled it. I don't think he sold the seat though, but i do believe he was trying as hard as he could to do so. I think he did this to make himself look good since he appointed a supposedly good man. The guy he appointed will be the only black senator.


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Re: Blagojevich in a bold move appoints a senator for Illinois [Re: Coaster]
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and of course he expects the public to trust his integrity :nonono:


thankfully no one will sign off on that appointment


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Re: Blagojevich in a bold move appoints a senator for Illinois [Re: Prisoner#1]
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well maybe that he is a good choice for the senate seat, it just doesn't seem like he is because of Blagojevich
is there anything wrong with his choice though


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Re: Blagojevich in a bold move appoints a senator for Illinois [Re: Coaster]
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he may be the best official gor the job but this is a situation
where someone exposed of corruption is possibly dragging the
good name of another official through the mud with him, he
should have stepped aside and allowed someone else to make the
appointment, that would have helped Blago to save a little face


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Re: Blagojevich in a bold move appoints a senator for Illinois [Re: Coaster]
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There's no way the Senate is gonna approve this guy, and the Senate approves almost everyone.


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Re: Blagojevich in a bold move appoints a senator for Illinois [Re: walzmanm]
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So the guy is just Blagojevich's tool, how sad...


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Re: Blagojevich in a bold move appoints a senator for Illinois [Re: Coaster]
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> So the guy is just Blagojevich's tool, how sad...

What is really sad is that the guy would let himself be used by Blagojevich in this manner.  Given all that has happened, and all the people against Blagojevich appointing a Senator, who in their right mind would accept such an appointment?


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Re: Blagojevich in a bold move appoints a senator for Illinois [Re: Seuss]
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ya what was he thinking, maybe that any publicity is good publicity.


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Re: Blagojevich in a bold move appoints a senator for Illinois [Re: Seuss]
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Seuss said:
> So the guy is just Blagojevich's tool, how sad...

What is really sad is that the guy would let himself be used by Blagojevich in this manner.



maybe he's not being used, maybe there is still a shady deal
going on, Burris runs a political consulting firm and could
just be seeking more power than his comptroller or attorney
general positions held


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Re: Blagojevich in a bold move appoints a senator for Illinois [Re: Prisoner#1]
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> maybe he's not being used, maybe there is still a shady deal going on

Always a possibility, but with the attention such an appointment will get, it would be asinine to play such a move.  Of course, these are politicians being discussed; not the most humble, law abiding citizens out there.


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Re: Blagojevich in a bold move appoints a senator for Illinois [Re: Seuss]
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I like to work on assumption, in politics I always assume they
do everything in their own best interest, that they're are no
honest politicians and that regardless of how things pan out,
we're the ones on the receiving end of the anal


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Re: Blagojevich in a bold move appoints a senator for Illinois [Re: Prisoner#1]
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So can this new senator be removed before elections?


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Re: Blagojevich in a bold move appoints a senator for Illinois [Re: nw_shroomy]
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this new senator can be refused by the senate, they have the
authority by a 2/3 vote to refuse him the seat


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Re: Blagojevich in a bold move appoints a senator for Illinois [Re: Prisoner#1]
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Prisoner#1 said:
this new senator can be refused by the senate, they have the
authority by a 2/3 vote to refuse him the seat


I was going to note that too.  Is there any indication that they would do that?  I don't think that this man was part of the scandal at all, nor do I see any reason why he would be a bad pick for this temporary role.  The GOP might block him out of partisan principle, but that leaves more than 20 votes to be desired.  There will have to be some sort of puclic outcry for that to happen in my opinion, and my guess is that that won't come to fruition, especially with attention being elsewhere because of the holidays.


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Re: Blagojevich in a bold move appoints a senator for Illinois [Re: Ferris]
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On the other hand, I might be wrong

http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/1208/Reid_Burris_wont_be_seated.html


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Re: Blagojevich in a bold move appoints a senator for Illinois [Re: Ferris]
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Ferris said:
Is there any indication that they would do that?  I don't think that this man was part of the scandal at all


as I was saying, he could be the best candidate for the seat,
absolutely clean but the association with Blago covers him in mud


if they wanted to do some damage then Blago should have appointed a republican


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Re: Blagojevich in a bold move appoints a senator for Illinois [Re: Prisoner#1]
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Wait, how does that last part make any sense?

The way I see it is that the Dems should be more afraid of losing that seat in a special election because the scandal could skew the results, more than they should be afraid of the appearance of impropriety.  That's especially true if the candidate looks clean.

What they could do now is rather than appoint this guy, put Burress up for election, with their full support.  They could only do that if Obama got in line, in which case, there would really be no contest.  It would avoid the very damaging scenario of them actually losing.


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Re: Blagojevich in a bold move appoints a senator for Illinois [Re: Ferris]
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It's all smoke and mirrors. The Dems will seat him.
Washigton is just pissed at Blagobitch.


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Re: Blagojevich in a bold move appoints a senator for Illinois [Re: Ferris]
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Ferris said:
Wait, how does that last part make any sense?


why besmirch another democrat when you can give blago fleas to the republicans

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put Burress up for election, with their full support.


I believe he'll have political leprosy for a while now


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Re: Blagojevich in a bold move appoints a senator for Illinois [Re: Prisoner#1]
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I suppose that makes a limited sort of sense, but it would be too obvious of a move and would likely backfire.  I'm sure that someone has at least thought about it though, those conniving bastards.


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