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“SCANDAL MUSHROOMS,” reports the Chicago Sun-Times, and indeed, this scandal is off the hook, mushroom-wise. Latest revelation: “The son of embattled Sen. Roland Burris is a federal tax deadbeat who landed a $75,000-a-year state job under former Gov. Rod Blagojevich five months ago.” Well that just shows how very generous the former governor was, giving out jobs to anyone named Burris and never asking anything in return. [Chicago Sun-Times]
The WWF “The Chisler” is goin’ down!
Facts are racist.
Burris should put “The Taint of the Father shall be visited on the Son” on his mausoleum.
I tried scandal mushrooms. They were no help for my headaches or my OCD.
Scandal mushrooms? Putting Blago’s taint to good agricultural use fertilizing up some of those portobellos to be ready for grilling season.
Because today seems to be almost entirely about tea-bagging, I’m going to assume that it fits into this scenario somehow.
Scandal mushrooms sound tasty. But maybe only b/c its past 1pm and no lunch yet.
Rod Blagojevich saved Roland Burris’ life by throwing himself on a Nazi hand grenade during World War II (the blast was cushioned by Blagojevich’s pompadour, and both men survived unscathed). That’s the only reason Burris accepted the Senate seat that his dear friend offered him.
Who does he think he is, Mitt Romney?
RE: The alt-text.
“Come on you target for faraway laughter,
“Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!”
Hmmmmmmm…
I did not, I repeat I did not, give sonny boy a $75,000 per yr job! (Although, I do forsee an end to this situation similar to my end, as in having to be dragged kicking, screaming & quoting Wadsworth out of office.) Then I got to torture the evil Illinois legislature that takes health care & bus rides away from poor people, with my 12 hr manifesto of crazy.
I too, tried Scandal Mushrooms. Visions of Warren Harding and Ulysses S. Grant danced in my head for 5 hours. Not pleasant.
$75K a year? Roland Jr., Rolandulous, and Rolandia are going to need a lot more money than that to maintain the upkeep on their father’s guilded
egoshrinemausoleum.4tehlulz: YOU. FUCKING. WIN.
Fox News believes the same thing. Their war on facts is full of nobility and such.
So that is what Plaxico has been doing since the gun went off.
*sniff. I think I smell something….taint…definitely taint.
…next it will be discovered that Roland Burris is really Rod Blagojevich’s love child.
Sure, scandal mushrooms seem like a good idea at first, but once you start to trip it’s a freakish carnival of Blago’s taint, Blago’s hair, and Mike Ditka all tap dancing atop the Burris’ Mausoleum.
Burris and Blago are like a duo of vaudeville clowns.
To be fair, Blago didn’t give him the job. He just showed up one day at the Illinois Housing Development Authority in the rain, trailing a bunch of natioanl media types and they let him stay because the IHDA is made up of a bunch of spineless pussies
I don’t see how this would’ve been helpful to Blagojevich — he gets no influence out of it, and now that he’s out of a job, Burris can’t really do anything to help him anyway. I know you can fail at governance, but Blago and Burris have totally failed at corruption. How they’re allowed to show their faces in Chicago I have no idea.
Taint is the best fertilizer for scandal mushrooms.
Burris is blazing a trail out of the Senate.
…do they pass the family “taint” down from father to son, like a family heirloom?
Roasted taint on a bed of scandal mushrooms. HEY THE SERVICE AT THIS RESTAURANT IS TERRIBLE!
AxmxZ:
Yep, clowns and WWF Tag Team:
Burris = “The Chisler”
Blago = “Taped Worm”
I thought that name sounded familiar. “Super Burrhead” was a chittlin’-circuit wrestler from Phenix City, Alabama. He did ads for a Columbus, Georgia furniture store and his catch phrase was “Good credik, bad credik, no credik at all!”
It’s good to know that he and his family have done so well working for the government.
The soft bigotry of low expectations. The kid won’t even qualify for a tax hike under the Obama Robin Hood Act. Fail.
Mr Blifil: But he may qualify for a cabinet post.
It is sooooo damned appropriate that Burris goes down in flames. Time to stand up and resign to spend more time with his family and pursue other opportunities in the private sector.
I can’t wait for Elvis-worshiper Rod to star in his first Bollywood musical, “The Song of Roland.”
Oh the taint. It burns.
Go away already Burris. You’re hurting my hope-y buzz. Jebus H. Fuckstick.
Well, that explains the Blagojevich-faced Sphinx-thing head atop the Burris burial ziggurat…
Burris père et fils
so impressed former
governor Blowjobyabitch
that Blojo sought to
put these two fine men
into the public sector,
to serve the people, with
no concern for personal
gain. It is a shame that
the world can’t see the
obvious.
ManchuCandidate: It is time that Burris added a little spot for his son, at the foot of the tomb.