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The matter of the fact is IT IS UNETHICAL IF NOT ILLEGAL FOR Blagojevich TO BE ACTING AS A GOVENOR SINCE HIS VERY AUTHORITY FOR HIS POSITION IS UNDER CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION. I am surprised nobody has brought this legal and sound judgement up as the actual TENET OR FIRM PRINCIPLE why the appointment of Burris by Blagojevich is ILLEGITIMATE and UNAUTHORIZED.

Burris should simply step aside. His wife should gather the courage to advice him to do so and also encourage and support him to do so. She is her closest friend and people are supposed to listen to their friends especially when the friends are giving them the sound advice.

A CONCERRNED BLACK WOMAN

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So, this all being said.....What state has the Most corruption, whether it be in politics or whatever.......In other words, IF you know the right people, and you have enough MONEY, you could possibly be the Mayor of practically any town in ILLinois.....or if you know the right people, you don't have to have a H.S. education to get a very good, high paying Job, wherever it's at, in the state of ILLinois....That's just the way it is, people.....

I believe that a full investigation should go forward to ensure that Burris and the Gov. have no ties that will discredit him after he is seated. Lets find out now, not after.

Good. I believe Burris is dirty. Please ask away.

We're seating a senator. We're not elevating a man to Pope.

This is fine. Any selection that Blagojevich was going to make should be scrutinized. The GOP has had ample time to review Burris, however. The process has been delayed long enough. It's time to seat Burris. If serious matters are subsequently discovered through Fitzgerald's investigation, then the Senate can take the findings up with Burris at that time.

While I think Burris' selection was legal, I still think he's an old man with delusions of grandeur and he's looking like a clown. Just the fact that he's built that crypt makes him look a little crazy.

Mr. Burris has many accomplishments, but I feel this last minute appointment by Gov Goofy has a strong smell.

I think they should totally question Burris's tie to Bladgojevich. I'm a democrat very concerned with losing that seat to Republicans in the next cycle and I think it is absolute folly for democratic officials to seat Burris without clearing his ties to Blad. It seems so odd to me that no one has asked those questions about a seat appointed by a governor charged with selling seats. Everyone has been concerned with the political game being played and no one has vetted Burris. This is just so strange to me, its like everyone just decided that Blad wouldn't still be trying his shenanigans, having read the indictment, I'm not so sure about that.

This whole thing makes me afraid of Reid being in charge. If he can't control this stupid mess, how is he going to control the senate? It was bad enough that the dem senate were an ineffective minority party, they didn't stand up to anything. The nation cannot afford for them to be an ineffective majority party. I think the democratic leadership in senate need to look seriously at demoting Senator Reid (wishful thinking I know, but a girl can dream, right?

"Shouldn't this be part of the ongoing Fitzgerald investigation??? No reason to make a political statement on something already in place!!!"

The legislative process is separate and parallel to the criminal process. An impeachment will get him out of office faster, and then Blago won't have the prestige and protection of being a governor during his own federal corruption trial.

I knew they would screw us out of a special election. It would be entertaining if it weren't so serious. Three weeks ago all the talk was about a special election now, that the democrats realize there is a real risk a republican might win the seat they can't get this guy into the senate fast enough. They should take their time and make sure there isn't pay to play going on. Burris even said when he was announced that he didn't think his firm made enough money to donate $14,000 to Blago. And yet that's exactly what they did.

Actually, if any of you brilliant Liberals actually bothered to read this story past the headline, you would realize that it is the Illinois state GOP that want a closer look at Burris and Blago's ties, not the GOPs in the U.S. Congress. Liberals are always looking for any reason to rail against Republicans. For a group that thinks they are intellectually superior, you Liberals are not very literate or detail-oriented.

Run him through the ringer . . . Inquiring mines want to know if Mr. Smilie payed to play. In this great, great country of ours, you are guilty until proven innocent. So let's have a go at-em . . . just for dirty politics sake.

The Illinois GOP is still so dysfunctional that they make our governor look normal.

They will do whatever they can to get another shot at Obama's seat. Obama won it by a landslide back in '06 when he defeated the Illinois GOP's carpetbagger mercenary Alan Keyes.

The Illinois GOP still suffers national humiliation from the fiacso, for which they bear full resposibility. They are not interested in giving Burris or Blago a fair hearing, or seeking the truth, they just want to grandstand at the taxpayers expense.

Amen! to "Nora L in CA".

This is a pure example of why our government no longer works. They would rather spend untold amounts of money fighting this appointment when there is NO LEGAL BASIS for the refusal to seat Burris. Bladgojevich pulled one over on his detractors and they don't like it.

To the US Senate: Get on with saving our country from economic ruin.

Unbelievable how the libs on this post can turn this in to a Republican bashing opportunity.

I think most Americans are tired of this distraction and are ready to move on to the REAL issues that face our country like how to stay employed in 2009!

Leave him alone he payed, now he should play, HAAAA!

How about a closer look at Dick Cheney's ties to Haliburton and no bid contracts and the missing 10 billion dollars that fell off that truck in Iraq?

Can we have a look at THAT?

Here is the problem:

Blagojevich is under investigation, IF he had an ounce of decency he would not have appointed anyone!

Burris accepted an appointed that IS tainted.

This IS ALL quite silly.

Is it any secret that the Republicans want Burris seated because they want a scandal-plagud senator tied to Blagojevich, so that they can run against him in 2010?

Stop punishing the man! Punish the man he appointed him! That would be the governor of Illinois. The people of this state deserve to have representative in Congress.

Well, I'm curious as to why the Ill GOP switched messages. First they condemned the Democrats for not seating him immediately. Now that it looks like he will be seated, which by law he should be, all of a sudden the Ill GOP wants a "closer look?" That it is truly baffling...

Take a hint GOPers, because this is why you were punished on November 4th, 2008:

When the Dems refuse to seat him, GOPers said "he should be seated!!! stop wasting our time stupid Dems!!!"

Now that it looks like he'll be seated, GOPers are interested in investigating the potential for establishing a scandal with it.

As soon as you guys figure out how to take and hold a position rather than act in what you believe to be the most expedient way to serve your narrow self-interests...i.e., grow some principles and integrity...you'll start making progress.

Burris shouldn't have accepted the offer. He better be clean, he's too old to be going to jail.

Shouldn't this be part of the ongoing Fitzgerald investigation??? No reason to make a political statement on something already in place!!!

As well they should-but Illinois crooks checking on more Illinois crooks? How wrong is that?????

Just Blago being Blago.

if these people would work as hard trying to fix our economy has they have trying to find a loop hole not to seat burris, we wouldn't be in the mess we are in, it seems all they do is find fault not solutions. i wish we could sweep them all out.

As a Democrat, I think that is great. They can ask the questions they need to ask and clear the air. I think Republicans and Democrats asking tough questions of Burris will aid the situation.

While they are at it, why don't they ask Harry Reid what transpired in his own conversations with Blagojevich before Burris showed up on the scene. Bladgojevich claims Reid told him not to pick Jackson and two others and Reid is denying it. Will the Democrats get rid of this guy and replace him with something a little closer to normal, please.

Perhaps I was too hasty when I declared the seat was lost.

Reid folded so fast I thought he was made of origami paper.