Hat Tip: Politico.com Sen. Dick Durbin urged Sen. Roland Burris on Tuesday to quit his job as the junior senator from Illinois, but the embattled senator has no plans of leaving the Senate. In a private meeting that lasted nearly an hour, Durbin told Burris that the growing controversy over his appo...

"I have too great a soul to die like a criminal." -- John Wilkes Booth, Southern Patriot and American Hero John Wilkes Booth Birth: May 10, 1838 Death: April 26, 1865 The assassin of President Lincoln. He was born on the small farm of his parents, both British immigrants, in Harford County, Maryland...

Call Edolphus Towns what you will: a 13-term Brooklyn congressman; a congenial politician with a raspy voice and a gift for charming seniors; a bald-headed, 74-year-old product of the Brooklyn Democratic machine. Here’s one thing you likely won’t call him: a troublemaker. So when, on Dec. 10, hi...

Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Hillary Rodham Clinton, two of the most influential members of the Senate, said goodbye to their colleagues yesterday, while the chamber welcomed Illinois's Roland W. Burris, a man it had tried to keep out....

After a near perfect month of transition operations, Obama has stumbled twice in two weeks....

It was not lost on anyone that the president-elect of the United States, riding the crest of his popularity, and the Democratic leadership of the U.S. Senate were outsmarted last week by a state politician who won his last election almost 20 years ago....

Roland W. Burris, an also-ran for most of his career in Illinois politics, is on the verge of winning a showdown in Washington that has pitted him against the leaders of the U.S. Senate and the president-elect....

Democrats blocked Roland Burris the Clown from entering the Senate Chamber today...But the circus continues. It looks like Senator Harry Reid may have finally grown a spine (we will know for sure if he has one if he is still standing his ground once the legal battles start). He was blocked by the Se...

And like Swiss Clockwork, The Congressional Black Caucus shows up and Blacks Fall For It. Have Black folks lost their minds? Not only is Blago using race as a wedge, but so-called “Black Leaders� appear to be enablers and co-conspirators in the game he is playing. I don’t know which is worse -...

It has been several days now and I’ve had time to chill and collect my thoughts. During that time, I have come to realize that my opposition to the seating of Roland Burris as the Junior Senator from Illinois is a mistake and a histrionic reaction to Rod Blagojevich’s mischievous and Machiavelli...