Burris will be seated in the Senate.What would be the purpose of meeting with him if he wasn't thinking about caving? And since Reid has stepped it by sounding racist rejecting the three top runners for the seat (who all happen to be black), he may cave just to change the headline and avoid this comparison. But more importantly, they would rather just get a Democrat in there and avoid a special election that might switch the seat to Republican hands.
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Until Blago is actually impeached or Illinois changes it's laws, I think they pretty much have to seat him. Blago probably picked him because he's the only one he DIDN'T try to sell the seat to, so he's probably pretty clean.
Here's what accurate predictions look like:
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." -- H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) who never even met Dubya
It is difficult for the ordinary voter to come to grips with the notion that a truly evil man, a truthless monster with the brains of a king rat and the soul of a cockroach, is about to be sworn in as president of the United States for the next four years… And he will bring his gang in with him, a mean network of lawyers and salesmen and pimps who will loot the national treasury, warp the laws, mock the rules and stay awake 22 hours a day looking for at least one reason to declare war, officially, on some hapless tribe in the Sahara or heathen fanatic like the Ayatollah Khomeni.
--Hunter Thompson(September 14, 1987 - On Bush I)
There's a lot of talk about fear of an election because a Republican might win it, but with Obama getting about a 3:1 lead in the general election, do you really suppose a Republican would win his seat?
"do you really suppose a Republican would win his seat?"
No! Not this year.
Though, the Republicans did pick up William Jefferson's seat and that was a huge shock!
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