Friday Morning News Roundup I continue to be amazed at how Senator Ronald Burris has gone from political genius to a national embarrassment. Now it appears that former Governor Rod Blagojevich hired Ronald Burris, II , as senior counsel, for the state’s Housing Authority in mid-September. This...

FRANKEN’S FUNNY BUSINESS Dick Morris and Eileen McGann As John F. Kennedy once said, “sometimes partisanship demands too much.” Watching Al Franken and the Democrats steal this election, vote by vote, is a horrific sight that makes a mockery of the electoral process, the fundamenta...

......legally speaking. I have a hard time understanding the Senate Democratic caucus' reasons for not seating Illinois Senate-designee Roland Burris. Sure, Gov. Blagojevich has all the markings of a clown-ass chump. And, the odds are, he'll be found guilty of some pay-to-play offerings. Nonetheless...

Uh huh. How it gets more interesting by the minute. According to the Chicago Sun-Times: Reid pressured Blagojevich not to appoint Jackson Jr. to Obama’s U.S. Senate seatJanuary 2, 2009 BY NATASHA KORECKI, CHRIS FUSCO AND LYNN SWEET Days before Gov. Blagojevich was charged with trying to sell Presi...

News Item: If The Senate Democrats Accept Lieberman, Why Not Burris? 10. Since he'll be in Washington, have Rick Warren bring along his "Cone of Silence" and issue that to Burris, as his office 9. Have a debate, between Burris and Caroline Kennedy , winner take all 8. Taking a cue from Obama, Harry ...

The word is that Rod Blagojevich is going to appoint Roland Burris to fill Obama's Senate Seat. Who is Roland Burris? He's the former Comptroller and former Attorney General of the State of Illinois. Quite frankly, if White folks had been doing right, he'd be the Governor of Illinois. For all the ta...

As everyone knows by now, Barack Obama has chosen the hugely successful but quite controversial Reverend Rick Warren to perform the opening invocation at his inauguration. The gay and lesbian community has been outraged over this choice. It has been noted that on his website he has stated that unr...

Monday Evening News Roundup President-elect Barack Obama has formally announced his environmental and energy team. I’ve already mentioned Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu and Carol Browner. For Secretary of the Interior, he has named Senator Ken Salazar from Colorado. It is also rumo...

THE DEMOCRATIC CULTURE OF CORRUPTION Michelle Malkin Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi can stop clucking now. For the last three years, Democratic leaders cheered GOP ethics woes. Dean accused Republicans of making “their culture of corruption the norm.” Pelosi touted cleanliness as a liberal...

I was listening to Hardball today, and I saw the guy from BET (I would get into it how I can't see Ron Daniels, Ron Walter, Charles Ogletree, Bev Smith, etc. as political commentators, yet get someone from BET.....but I disgress.) said that Jesse Jr. took a wrong turn with the Press Conference, and ...