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Posted - January 09 2009 :  3:55:52 PM  Show Profile  Visit Dark Woods's Homepage  Reply with Quote
It is a proverb that an effective person chooses his or her battles. After letting so many things slide by (warrantless wiretaps, 750 billion dollar financial institution bailout, and so on) it is interesting that the Congress chooses to make a stand in the case of Roland Burris
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/01/burris_may_end_up_as_illinois.html

To make a point "on principle" of not seating him based upon allegations against his nominator seems an odd choice to me. I think other issues of more substance would be a better use of the time of Congress.
We become what we think about.
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Posted - January 09 2009 :  6:07:49 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote  Copy this URL to Link to this Reply
Or, as Mark Twain put it, "It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress."
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