Wonkette
Civil Rights hero Roland Burris is still in town, still hanging around Capitol Hill, and it appears his persistence just might pay off — if the racist Dixiecrats decide to let the old colored man become a senator, but only if he promises not to run again, which is called the “poll tax.”
Burris met with his arch-enemy, the White Mormon Harry Reid, this morning. And things are looking up! Reid had this to say about Burris:
“He obviously is a very engaging, extremely nice man,” Reid said. “Roland Burris to me appears to be candid and forthright. … He is not trying to avoid any responsibility or hide anything. … We don’t have a problem with him as an individual.”
Yeah, it’s not Roland’s fault that he was born inferior to the White Race!
Anyway, maybe they will just let Burris be senator for two years so he can put another award on his mausoleum, and the most embarrassing spectacle of the pre-Obama Administration can be put to rest. Because the real problem with Burris isn’t actually his race — it’s that he’s a perennial loser, a hapless bozo with delusions of electability who constantly runs for the U.S. Senate and for Illinois Governor and even Mayor of Chicago and never wins anything, because who is this guy?
Burris Getting Closer to Obama’s Senate Seat? [ABC News]
Damn, I will put away my SEN. MAJ. LEADER HARRY REID TRIUMPHS headline for another day…
And how exactly will they keep him from running again in two years? Another TRIPLE DOG DARE or sticking his tongue to the lamppost?
Well, Reid held his ground about a week longer than I thought he would. A total *cave* man.
Harry should have cut a deal to get some pigment from Burris.
problemwithcaring: You may well as assign that headline to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
I thought the money he paid Blagojevich was the “Pole Tax.” HEYOHHHHHHHHHHHH! (Yes, I know Blago is not Polish. Serbs me right.)
After Barry, is this Reid guy really the best senator the democrats have to offer? No wonder its so easy to get bridges to nowhere partially built while real bridges collapse.
“….delusions of electability”? Yeah, like Roland Burris is the only guy in the U.S. with that problem.
Oh, Harry. How is it possible for you to walk upright, when you obviously have no spine?
“forthright” is the new “uppity”
Bah, go ahead and let him in with the other hapless bozos of the Senate. This seat thing loses value all the time.
In the end, I think my favorite part of all of this is the way that Republicans everywhere have stood up for the right of a corrupt politician to do whatever he wants.
problemwithcaring: I knew he would give in. He always capitulates…
I was listening to ROBERT FUCKING SEAGULL interview this delusional uppity black man on All Things Considered last night, and Roland was referring to people that actually ARE senators as “My Colleague Dick Durbin” and “My Fellow Harry Reid.” If that’s the way to get up in the world, then “My brother Barack Obama” seems pretty fucking fitting right now.
…can anyone, ANYONE, tell me one thing this man hasn’t mishandled and then eventually caved on?!?!?!
Hey, in all seriousness, I knew Roland Burris when I lived in Chicago. He’s a really nice guy, and certainly no dumber than 60-75% of the US Senate. This is a body that includes James Inhofe, for fuck sake!
myiq2xu: That was yesterday. We’re bored with you now. You’re really just not all that interesting.
little known fact, Reid holds the senate record for most times getting sacked by flaccid old men. we need to pass a constitutional amendment to replace reid with patrick fitgerald. because that motherfucker gets shit done.
Hey Ken-
Can you start digging a whole in the Nevada desert? I think somebody might need a little disappearing.
Yeah, he capitulated all over me in the bathroom yesterday at lunch.
Min: & gjdodger: Ba-zing.
Roland Burris is not just looking out for Roland Burris…he’s keeping that stone mason employed.
I mean, the man already purchased the work time for the epitaph “First *real* black senator”. It’d be a shame to lose that deposit.
Kev-O-Tron: If he can’t even convince Nevadans to store nuke waste in a hole in the desert, do you really think they’ll want to keep him around?
Ebony and Ivory
Living together Senatorally
Side by side in my caucus
Oh Lord block this insanityyyyy
When Reid’s granddaughter asks him for a cookie and he says no, she bitch slaps him and he comes back with three.
So Blago is a bleeping genius after all!
Who says nice guys finish last? Way to go, Plaxico!
Harry Reid: more back down than a mallard.
Harry Reid, you got Serbed.
/sorry
Remember when Reid had balls when he battling against Sexy Majority WHIP Daschle, or am I thinking of another Reid, or maybe a different whip.
Meh, fuck it, he’s still a weenie.
problemwithcaring: Might as well stash the “Harry Reid shows evidence of having balls” headline in deep storage while you’re at it. The spineless douche.
Wait, myiq showed his taint here?
And then “Harry Reid” unzips his human skin costume and it’s Blaggo!
Just give him his fucking mule and be done with it.
shoot the bastard for being such a corrupt motherfucker
Why do they arrest people in America. Just to let the offender convince the Law that what he is doing wrong is absolutely right. When you know you have the right to accept or deny. appointees. I don’t understand this confusing Law. Then you arrest a man, put him under surveilance and investigation. And then turning your back on your own Order . After the Governor refused to comply with it. And appointed a man anyway, when you told him not to.
if the Governor is under surveilance and investigation and pending Impeachment. Then you put him on auaatomatic Leave, just that simple. You don’t let him be the judge of nothing. After he has been arrested and put under investigation and pending Impeachment. Cause he is gonna do more dirt, before he leave. That is why he appointed Burris. Cause he Blagojavich was trying to be funny, thats all.
And then people try to get their way by extorting threats. We’ll what you do is, you extort threats right back.
And Obama will stiil utilize his Economic Stimulus Pkg.
This man was appointed by a Governor who is under Investigation and pending Impeachment. You don’t let the Governor be the judge of his destiny. You put him on leave like you do every other job, until the outcome of his case.
That is why he appointed Burris.Cause he was trying to be funny thats all. And he wants to do as much dirt as he can, while he is still in Office. You need to Impeach him immediately
Isn’t he the same dude they named the tennis stadium in Paris after?
– “He obviously is a very engaging, extremely nice man,” Reid said. —
“Nice” is Mormon for, “he has me hard clamped by my withered, grey TruckNutz”. That’s an approximate translation from the ever witty, bon vivant, Orin Hatch. So sayeth I.
gliberal: There ia a ‘palais de tennis’ in Paris s’appelle “le douche”?
Harry Reid is a pussy and Ronald Burris looks really excited to be sitting at the big kids table.
From now on it’s only news if Harry Reid doesn’t cave. He said today he’s gonna be Senate Majority Leader until 2015. That’s a bit presumptuous, Harry. There’s gonna be a lot of people outside Nevada giving money to your opponent/s, a la Prop 8 & the Mormons.
They say he was a boxer in his youth, we all thought it meant the sweet science. It’s apparent now he was a boxer, as in a dog. A dog who rolls over on his back when threatened. In fact he’s still a boxer, as Roland Burris witnessed today.
Reid and Roland have made up and will host a new cable t.v. show, “Burris and Butthead.”