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Rod and Roland - aka Pinky and the Brain
Not these two again- Rod Blagojevich and Roland Burris (aka Pinky and the Brain) are at it again – denying the obvious and doing their best to convince us that we are all deaf, dumb, and blind.
Unfortunately for them, unlike the very special group of people who will continue to support their elected candidate, even after he’s caught on video smoking crack, the rest of us can smell a hot mess a mile away, even if it’s sporting a massive pompadour. Burris, despite transcripts released Tuesday that reveal the exact opposite, continues to deny attempting to buy the vacant Chicago senate seat from Blagojevich. The transcripts reveal Burris telling Rob Blagojevich, Pinky’s brother, that he’d ”personally do something” to help the governor’s campaign. The transcripts also show Burris saying “I know I could give him a check… well we, we, I, I will personally do something, okay.”
Burris, says (in what we imagine is a very whiny, high pitched voice) that he realized after getting off the phone with Rob Blagojevich, that he couldn’t do it. He said he couldn’t risk the appearance of impropriety. It’s amazing that he didn’t realize that while on tape. Burris’ attorney is asking for a smoking gun, suggesting that the wiretaps don’t provide enough evidence to support the claims that Burris tried to buy the seat. Apparently his attorney has forgotten (see deaf, dumb and blind reference above) that under oath, Burris denied ever having any conversations with any Blagojevich regarding the senate seat and money.
Politicians are famous for doing this, President Clinton, John Edwards, Larry Craig. Remember him? Craig was the Idaho Senator who claimed that he adopted what has to be the widest toilet seat stance in American history in a bathroom known as a hangout for men looking to have sex with other men, just to get comfortable on the toilet. Few people in power have mastered lying as well as politicians. Second only to lying is the political skill of “not manning up.” I miss manning up. Remember when a politician would do something wrong and sometimes even before getting caught, would make a public statement denouncing the behavior and apologizing to the people he’d disappointed? Me neither, but you get my point. Whatever happened to manning up? When did it become acceptable, and almost expected, for men and women in power to take the child’s route out?
I’d like to ask Roland Burris if the senate seat he wanted so badly has been worth it. If in the end, his failed attempts at lying, cheating and stealing got him what he wanted. I’d ask the Blagojevichs, but I think they’re too far gone. They’ve moved on to reality TV stints and trying to make a profit from this whole fiasco. Burris on the other hand, with his shaky responses to pressing questions and his deer in headlights stare, might not be a complete and total moral loss. In fact, occasionally, I wipe the dust off of my cold heart and feel sympathy for my little senator friend. I feel sorry that he’s a man who wanted something he felt he was unworthy of getting, and in a cruel twist of fate, in getting it, proved how truly unworthy he was. And, while Blago and the little Mrs. continue to cash in on their deceit, my whiny, nervous little friend will not. I think when we look back at history, the position and influence Burris fought so hard to get, will work even harder to distance itself from him.
