Paging Howie Mandel: new show idea, Chicago-based, titled, "What's the Big Deal???"

Don't get me wrong - it stinks - but it's interesting how people pick and choose which Chicago stuff they're going to get all indignant about.  This latest outbreak of the vapors over Burris would put Scarlett O'Hara to shame.

The press has been effectively hamstrung over the last 8 years. The former and current administration have not been shy about questioning the integrity and motivations of critics.

While the Wapo is trumpeting the stimulus package as an historic victory for the administration, informed critics argue the banking portion of the package will produce failure rather than success. Timid, inept, and corrupt. Unfortunately for us all, these terms accurately describe far too many fat-cat Dems right now.

The challenges we face together require more than lip-service to transparency and accountability. Lies, deceptions, and back-room deals further erode public confidence in a system that, while admirable in many ways, has failed far too many far too often, especially in recent years.

The stuff is too serious for pitch-forks and hyperbole. Rendition, the Stevens case, and now Burris suggest a deeply-rooted culture of Dem corruption and double-standards that bodes ill for us all.

Too bad. I had to admire the public relations finesse of the rain-and-umbrellas routine. He seemed to handle the situation with grace and dignity and determination. All down the toilet now.

If they pull him out, though, won't there be calls for a special election -- an election the Dems are likelier by the minute to lose? Given the situation in the Senate now, do they want to risk losing another vote?

Plus won't that draw attention to the cesspool BHO came from?

What I wonder now is: Why did Burris come clean?  Was there a fuse about to blow somewhere? Was it about to become public anyway? How and by whom?

I did predict -- correctly -- that if they quietly seated Burris that Blago would be out of the news for awhile.

But the AP report says that Robert Blagojevich's attorney (they're all lawyered up now, apparently) says he believes that one of the conversations was recorded by the FBI.

It's so obvious now that Americans have been skunked by the Bush administration. Bush and Company have planted or organizing prosecutions in the Attorney Generals office, plus likely any and all departments including NSA wire taps on anybody is at the same time a funny but a horrendous outrageous thought.

For me the political Grandstanding with Blagojevich is an out standing example of fixed politics threaded in our very own FBI. Done and executed at the eleventh hour and, for me, blazingly bannered as a political tool rather than addressed as a legal challenge is overwhelming in your face Media Bias across the cable spectrum. The media is part and core of today's shield in freedom of speech used to propagandize prosecution in the general wide open media induced confusion with bias which is the wrong way in justice.
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The whole concepts to think just Democrats are political scoundrels that exist to funnel money into secret Swiss trust bank accounts are a person in denial. The Madoff issue exposes anybody is game. The whole concept of America's political system has shifted to what one could consider "tricky perjury".

That coupled with flea bargaining, and violations under the term Malfeasance in office, or official misconduct has totally circumvented the basics in Tort Law. Here, one can see why America is in a banking mess because our political and judicial system is a mess.

Don't forget the Republicans have had control of the legislative part of our government for a very long time. Through at least the Clinton administration, to and through the majority of the Bush administration.

Don't forget Newt Gingrich was at one time leading to shut down the government because Clinton would not give the Republicans what they wanted. Shutting down the Government and putting America at risk in wide open media was deliberate fear and extortion to the American public at the time. That just forgotten by friends of the media that have been totally embedded in a war that everyone is having a hard time to justify, but willing in a crazy way to blame Obama now for everything.  

1. As we saw this week, they need every Democratic vote they can get because "60 is the new 51";

2. There are too many serious problems in this country and the voters will not stand for hearings and expulsion when other things need to be addressed;

3. Either way this situation gives Republicans ammo, but by keeping it in the news, it prolongs the story. By ignoring it this story, which was dumped on Friday of a three day weekend, when the stimulus bill and Buffalo plane crash are the only things on the news, it will be nothing but a rumble by Tuesday.  This story is even less important than the Commerce Secretary.

4. The Dems are spineless and Harry Reid doesn't want to say there may be a problem.

But I doubt this will have any effect on it.  

Politically this story just doesn't have legs.  

What Burris is doing is accepting to be complice of Blago in order to accede to a Senate seat. It seams obvious that he struck a deal with the latter through his brother, offering "donations"
(visible or not!), as well as his main asset,
i.e. being an African American, with the implicit support of the Black Caucus and counting with the racial inhibitions of the Dem's leadership.

What Burris is needs no comment. What decent person would accept a nomination by an individual
as Blago and when asked expressly if he
interacted with his brother a few weeks ago, deny it ??
And of course, his sudden "remembering" intended
to be a preventive strike, as he knew that the
Press already had unearthed these facts !!

And finally: the best way for racism to survive is
that organizations as the (reverse)racist Black
Caucus support immoral (or worse) individuals
only because they are black !!!