January 5, 2009

HIGH NOON…Defiant Burris Heads to Washington to Claim Senate Seat

CHICAGO — Even as Senate leaders continued to challenge his appointment to the seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama, Roland W. Burris headed to Washington on Monday, setting the stage for a public showdown on Capitol Hill.
In a news conference at Midway airport in Chicago before his scheduled 2:20 p.m. flight to Baltimore, a defiant [...]

January 5, 2009

Reid claims Constitutional authority to reject Burris!

Under the Constitution, “We determine who sits in the Senate. And the House determines who sits in the House. So there’s clearly legal authority for us to do whatever we want to do. This goes back for generations.”
Wow- Reid is reaching for the Constitution when it’s convenient to play the rules against State rules [...]