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Yawn. ANOTHER Democrat commits perjury

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Sunday, February 15, 2009 7:06 AM

America loves a winner!

And guess who ? It's the newest member from Illinois!!

February 14, 2009
BY NATASHA KORECKI AND DAVE MCKINNEY
Chicago Sun-Times Staff Reporters

State lawmakers are calling for a criminal investigation into whether U.S. Sen. Roland Burris committed perjury before a state impeachment panel, in the wake of a Sun-Times exclusive story published online today.

The development comes after the Chicago Democrat failed to initially disclose under oath to a House panel that he was hit up for campaign cash by former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's brother.

State Rep. James Durkin (R-Western Springs) said Saturday that the Sangamon County state prosecutor‚s office will be asked to review Burris‚ Jan. 8 sworn testimony before the House panel to determine whether Burris (D-Ill.) perjured himself.

"I don't trust anything that comes out of Roland Burris‚ mouth or from his pen," Durkin said.

"We had a major league situation facing us. This is a United States senate seat that came under the most clouded of circumstances," Durkin said. "This is supposed to be about the year of reform this is about ethics and about transparency."

Durkin questioned why he found out about the additional testimony Friday night from the Sun-Times.

"Why were we kept out of the loop? Why were we kept out of the latest filing of Roland Burris?"

Word that Burris' account of his appointment has changed yet again came as a surprise to some of his colleagues in the Senate, who were not aware of the affidavit's filing until learning of it from press accounts. It was unclear what response might be triggered by Burris' revisions.

An aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who initially sought to block Burris from being seated, said the Senate leader intended to take a closer look at Burris' new affidavit. But Reid's office declined to say whether the new revelations would reopen the question of whether Burris should be Illinois' junior senator.

"Senator Reid is reviewing the affidavit," Reid spokesman Jim Manley told the Sun-Times Saturday.

After Reid's hand was essentially forced by Burris and African-American supporters in Congress, Burris was formally seated in mid-January, leaving the Senate few options in responding to the matter. If criminal charges were ever to surface against Burris, the Senate Ethics Committee could probe his conduct and recommend censure, but outright removal from the Senate would require a two-thirds vote.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), who also had reservations about Burris' appointment, intends to more closely examine Burris' evolving storyline before determining a response, a spokesman said. The No. 2 Senate Democrat left for a trip to Greece, Turkey and Cyprus today and won't return until Friday, his office said.

"He wants to look at the affidavit and review the testimony," Durbin spokesman Joe Shoemaker said.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/02/illinois_lawmakers_mull_burris
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Sunday, February 15, 2009 7:23 AM

CHRISISALL

Those Dems. Always getting peeps killed with their lying.

The laughing Chrisisall

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Sunday, February 15, 2009 7:57 AM

WHOZIT

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/14/report-blagojevich-asked-bu
rris-donation/

His defenders will say, HEY he forgot to mention it, AND he did'nt pay the $10,000.

Durbin may want to stay in Turkey.....for a few weeks.

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Sunday, February 15, 2009 10:24 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Those Dems. Always getting peeps killed with their lying.

The laughing Chrisisall

Still clinging to that tired, old, well debunked myth, huh?

Democrats and their " Bush lied, people died " blankie.

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Sunday, February 15, 2009 11:19 AM

FREMDFIRMA

Gee, politicians lie, what a surprise.

Didja have to ask the weatherman which direction the sun was gonna come up, too ?

Oh, and where were you when the former administration did this, over and over, and over again ?

I swear they're gonna put your picture in the next Encylopedia Britannica - right next to the entry titled: Gullibility.

You're the only person I've ever known to meet it's exact definition in BOTH directions.
(Belief/Disbelief)

-F

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Sunday, February 15, 2009 11:25 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Quote:
Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Gee, politicians lie, what a surprise.

Didja have to ask the weatherman which direction the sun was gonna come up, too ?

Oh, and where were you when the former administration did this, over and over, and over again ?

I swear they're gonna put your picture in the next Encylopedia Britannica - right next to the entry titled: Gullibility.

You're the only person I've ever known to meet it's exact definition in BOTH directions.
(Belief/Disbelief)

-F

Not just lied, but committed PERJURY. You know, the thing Clinton got impeached for ? Big difference, ya know. That's a crime, when you perjure yourself.

And I beg of you, where did the previous Administration lie " over and over again " ??

This is news worthy, to the rest of us, for the circumstances surrounding Illinois , its Governor and the seat Obama once held. Some of have been following this story. You?

Even I know that the word 'gullible ' isn't even IN the dictionary. Sheesh!

But the question that has me curious, is why the hell are you trying to make this about ME?? I didn't dream up the story, like Pirate News does. It was out there, for all to see ( or ignore ) as they saw fit. I just posted it here, and yet you have nothing to say about it other than ' gee, all politicians lie ' .

The story isn't about " lying ". It's a potentially messy issue for the Senate, Illinois, the Senator, ....... no real telling how this'll play out. And yet you want to accuse ME of being gullible ?

Wow.

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Sunday, February 15, 2009 11:40 AM

MALBADINLATIN

Yawn is right...but not for the reasons you have. If someone picked me for any appointed federal office...the press would look into my background and be laughing for years

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Sunday, February 15, 2009 11:41 AM

CHRISISALL

Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:

Not just lied, but committed PERJURY.

See, in your world lying is fine, unless the judge rules it isn't. Acceptable authoritarian official lies are cool; Unofficial unacceptable legally non-sanctioned lying is bogus.

Quote:
gul·li·ble
adj.
Easily deceived or duped.

I looked it up.

The laughing Chrisisall

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Sunday, February 15, 2009 1:19 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

But you'll never offer up a lie which Bush gave, huh?

Curious.

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Sunday, February 15, 2009 1:26 PM

CHRISISALL

I did, brainless. But plausible deniability obscures what would otherwise be a simple conclusion.
And yanno, I don't even give a real doody about lies, everyone in politics tells 'em, I just don't like the ones that lead to USELESS deaths.
But being brainwashed as you is, the deaths of 3000+ US troops was far from useless, it was necessary to stem the flow of terrorists seeking a return gig after 9-11...or was it Saddam taking over the world...whatever you need to believe, you coward & pisspot.

PS, bleach will get that "pissed-myself-yellow" stain out of your coat.

The laughing Chrisisall

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Sunday, February 15, 2009 1:35 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
I did, brainless.

No, you never did.

Want to try again?

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Monday, February 16, 2009 1:05 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Oh, I see. He didn't perjure himself because no one asked him if the Governors BROTHER solicited $$ from Burris.

I swear, you can't WRITE this stuff!!

Quote:

CHICAGO — Senator Roland W. Burris of Illinois acknowledged in documents made public Saturday that the brother of former Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich sought campaign fund-raising help from him in the weeks and months before his appointment to succeed Barack Obama as the state’s junior senatorMr. Burris said he provided no money to Governor Blagojevich’s campaign in response to the brother’s request.

The disclosure was different from Mr. Burris’s earlier descriptions, including one under oath, of his conversations with those closest to the former governor. It raised new questions about events that preceded Mr. Burris’s unusual appointment in late December and prompted some Republican lawmakers in Illinois to immediately demand an inquiry into whether Mr. Burris committed

perjury. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/us/15burris.html?_r=2&hp

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Monday, February 16, 2009 1:46 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

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Oh, I see. He didn't perjure himself because no one asked him if the Governors BROTHER solicited $$ from Burris.

Well, if that's actually the way it went down, then technically he didn't lie. If he was asked "Did Governor Blagojevich solicit money from you?", and he answered "No, the Governor did not solicit money from me" then that would be the truth.

It's kind of like Bush *not quite* saying that Saddam had WMD, but saying that THE BRITISH said it. It's a lie, but it's not quite a lie because of a technicality.

And if that's really what happened with Burris, then whose fault is it that they didn't ask the right questions?

Mike

"It is complete now; the hands of time are neatly tied."

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Monday, February 16, 2009 1:51 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:

It's kind of like Bush *not quite* saying that Saddam had WMD, but saying that THE BRITISH said it. It's a lie, but it's not quite a lie because of a technicality.

And if that's really what happened with Burris, then whose fault is it that they didn't ask the right questions?

Mike

"It is complete now; the hands of time are neatly tied."

It's nothing like that , what so ever. The Brits did say that, and still say that, as well as the intel available to Bush at the time. Bush even went further in trying to verify, after Tenet assured him the case was a " slam dunk ".

Bush had no way of knowing exactly what Iraq had, ergo, there's no way he could have lied.

As for Burris, the issue was what conversations he DID have with Blago, or those closest to him . Burris failed to mention the part about the Governor's brother, while under oath. At best, he forgot to remember, which is exactly what Scooter Libby got caught doing.

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