The Peter Principle in Action: Roland Burris
Deposed Illinois Governor, Hot Rod Blagojevich, may be more flamboyant than his pick to fill Barack Obama's seat in the United States Senate but Roland Burris is almost as tainted.
Unlike Blago, Burris hasn't been caught. Yet.
What Burris has going for him is principally the color of his skin and certainly not the content of his character.
As with Charlie Rangel in the House, his new Senate colleagues dare not mess with him unless his moral turpitude exceeds the average corruption norm, as it may finally have with Old Charlie.
Burris is a party hack, plain and simple, one of those guys who line up as per instructions from Chicago's Daley Machine and vote early and often on election days.
He, like Al Franken, is a walking, talking exemplar of the time-proven axiom that people tend to rise to the level of their incompetence, aka, the Peter Principle.
Clearly demonstrating how out of touch with reality the guy is, Burris was one of just seven senators-all Democrats-who voted against defunding ACORN after a number of that slew of hoods was filmed giving aid and comfort to a "pimp" and a "prostitute."
Those exposs were the icing on the ACORN malfeasants' cake which has been overflowing for years with multiple tales of, and convictions for, voter fraud and other criminal activities as well as by ACORN's complicity in the sub-prime mortgage scandals.
(See "Who Really Brought Freddie and Fannie Down," http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1251)
Undismayed, Burris supported the group, along with fellow Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, and Vermont's socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, in the 83-7 vote. Most of the Dems voted against the Good Ship Acorn only after seeing how the prevailing senate winds were blowing.
So much for "the world's greatest deliberative body."
Further proving he was in the ACORN-er, Burris, came to their defense with a petulant attack on the director the Census Bureau, Dr. Robert Groves, for the bureau's audacity in dumping ACORN and its felons from its lineup of head counters next year.
Stirring up memories of Black comedian Flip Wilson, the senator claimed, in effect, that the "FOX sting" and various "agendas" made them do it. The devil may have had no claw in all the misinformation and distortions about ACORN but "unfair assessments" and "one-sided attacks" did them in.
Senator-by-nomination Burris may feel that ACORN is God's gift to Blacks and other minorities but the truth is that the "C" in the organization's acronym could as easily stand for "Corrupt" as "Community," and its criminal record substantiates that allegation.
Un-cowed by the Burris bluster, Dr. Groves assured the senator that the decision to cut loose the dead wood of ACORN was predicated more on "negative feedback" from regional census offices than on the alleged sting: http://bit.ly/B62T6.
Curious in that PoliticsDaily.com report is the omission of any reference to the stingers' "plan" to set up juvenile whore houses staffed by kids from El Salvador.
No doubt Sen. Burris, installed in office by one of many lllinois tainted governors, will carry on in his quest for ACORN justice. Should he succeed in rooting out true justice, God willing, 90% of ACORN-ers may end up in federal and state prisons.
Unlike Blago, Burris hasn't been caught. Yet.
What Burris has going for him is principally the color of his skin and certainly not the content of his character.
As with Charlie Rangel in the House, his new Senate colleagues dare not mess with him unless his moral turpitude exceeds the average corruption norm, as it may finally have with Old Charlie.
Burris is a party hack, plain and simple, one of those guys who line up as per instructions from Chicago's Daley Machine and vote early and often on election days.
He, like Al Franken, is a walking, talking exemplar of the time-proven axiom that people tend to rise to the level of their incompetence, aka, the Peter Principle.
Clearly demonstrating how out of touch with reality the guy is, Burris was one of just seven senators-all Democrats-who voted against defunding ACORN after a number of that slew of hoods was filmed giving aid and comfort to a "pimp" and a "prostitute."
Those exposs were the icing on the ACORN malfeasants' cake which has been overflowing for years with multiple tales of, and convictions for, voter fraud and other criminal activities as well as by ACORN's complicity in the sub-prime mortgage scandals.
(See "Who Really Brought Freddie and Fannie Down," http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1251)
Undismayed, Burris supported the group, along with fellow Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, and Vermont's socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, in the 83-7 vote. Most of the Dems voted against the Good Ship Acorn only after seeing how the prevailing senate winds were blowing.
So much for "the world's greatest deliberative body."
Further proving he was in the ACORN-er, Burris, came to their defense with a petulant attack on the director the Census Bureau, Dr. Robert Groves, for the bureau's audacity in dumping ACORN and its felons from its lineup of head counters next year.
Stirring up memories of Black comedian Flip Wilson, the senator claimed, in effect, that the "FOX sting" and various "agendas" made them do it. The devil may have had no claw in all the misinformation and distortions about ACORN but "unfair assessments" and "one-sided attacks" did them in.
Senator-by-nomination Burris may feel that ACORN is God's gift to Blacks and other minorities but the truth is that the "C" in the organization's acronym could as easily stand for "Corrupt" as "Community," and its criminal record substantiates that allegation.
Un-cowed by the Burris bluster, Dr. Groves assured the senator that the decision to cut loose the dead wood of ACORN was predicated more on "negative feedback" from regional census offices than on the alleged sting: http://bit.ly/B62T6.
Curious in that PoliticsDaily.com report is the omission of any reference to the stingers' "plan" to set up juvenile whore houses staffed by kids from El Salvador.
No doubt Sen. Burris, installed in office by one of many lllinois tainted governors, will carry on in his quest for ACORN justice. Should he succeed in rooting out true justice, God willing, 90% of ACORN-ers may end up in federal and state prisons.
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