Pomp & Circumstance

Congress is having it's regularly scheduled picnic today,for the eleventy-first time in our nation's history!

Newly elected,and re-elected members of The House and Senate are crossing their hearts and hoping to die,lest they suffer the consequence of having a thousand needles stuck in their eye, to uphold the Constitution of the United States,even as we speak.
(Sadly,the practice of spitting on the ground afterward to seal the deal has fallen by the wayside in recent years).

Hey!..You ever watch those British kids on C-Span holding their Parliamentary free-for-alls,with great amounts of 'Harrumphing!' and 'Hear! Hearing!',..all the while casting thinly veiled doubts upon the legitimacy of the opposition's birth?..

Well,ours isn't as much fun as all that (due,in large part,to the absence of powdered wigs I suspect) BUT!,.. we do get the occasional party crasher!

It seems that the Senate's designated bouncer has 86'd Roland Burris from the Grand Soiree.
Apparently his paperwork,sans the signature of the Secretary of State, wasn't deemed in proper order,and we all know that a bureaucracy can't very well be expected to function without reams of forms-in-triplicate,wrapped oh-so-prettily in miles of red tape.

Follows the list of things I think about that,..in alphabetical order;

A) Illinois governor Blagojavitch may be the scoundrel he's accused of being,but a fellow is presumed innocent until proven guilty,and until such time as that might transpire he has the right,if not the obligation,to appoint a replacement to fill the Senate seat left vacant by Barack Obama.

B) The good folks of the great State of Illinois are entitled to full representation
in the Senate...That means two Senators.

C) Roland Burris himself is not under any cloud of suspicion.
Should any transgressions come to light in the future,there is already a mechanism in place to remove him after he takes his Senate seat.

D) Just who the hell does the Illinois Secretary of State think he is,to 'veto' the sitting Governor's appointment of anyone under that state's Constitution??
..By Cracky!

I personally believe that our Senate Democrats have bitten off a little bit more than they can ultimately choke down with this one.

Still,and because it is more properly left to the people being represented,I would defer to the the fine folks that actually reside in Illinois,should they hold an opinion contrary to my own.