{"id":2531,"date":"2009-02-18T09:39:08","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T14:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2531"},"modified":"2009-02-18T09:39:08","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T14:39:08","slug":"stuck-with-the-burris-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/02\/18\/stuck-with-the-burris-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuck with the Burris Mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You wonder if maybe the GOP paid Blagojevich to name Burris to the Senate seat, thus ensuring at least one <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/02\/burris_day_two_perjury_probes_and_calls_for_resign.php\">massive Democratic failure and ongoing embarrassment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yesterday was not a good day for Roland Burris.<\/p>\n<p>First, <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/02\/burris_now_admits_he_tried_to_raise_money_for_blago.php\">he admitted<\/a> that, contradicting the impression he had left over the weekend, he had tried to raise money for Rod Blagojevich after a conversation with the then-governor&#8217;s brother. (That acknowledgement came on the heels of an affidavit Burris filed earlier this month which <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/02\/burris_contradicts_sworn_testimony_on_talking_to_b.php\">itself contradicted<\/a> his sworn testimony to the legislature about conversations with Blagojevich&#8217;s circle.)<\/p>\n<p>Then, we learned that two investigations have been launched into the new senator&#8217;s shifting explanations.  One is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/chi-burris-18-feb18,0,6205161.story\">described<\/a> by the <em>Chicago Tribune<\/em> as &#8220;a perjury review,&#8221; being conducted by John Schmidt, the local prosecutor in Springfield, and a Republican. Schmidt said he was acting on a request from Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems almost certain that the man committed perjury, and will be prosecuted for it.\u00c2\u00a0 A reasonable person might think that he&#8217;d prefer to handle that out of the public light.\u00c2\u00a0 But as we saw with his appointment battle, the man is almost entire incapable of self awareness or shame.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;re going to be stuck with him for a while, I fear, and it&#8217;s going to be ugly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You wonder if maybe the GOP paid Blagojevich to name Burris to the Senate seat, thus ensuring at least one massive Democratic failure and ongoing embarrassment: Yesterday was not a good day for Roland Burris. First, he admitted that, contradicting the impression he had left over the weekend, he had tried to raise money for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2533,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions\/2533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}