Tweety is doing a pretty good job at raking Roland Burris over the coals.

[LostInAnomie]

I know he's a Dem., but that fucker seems shady as Hell to me.

edit: The FBI is looking at Burris for possible illegal fundraising for Blago in return for a Senate seat.

[ecstatic]

1. Not shady just clueless and tone deaf

Uggh... They should have waited for the new governor to appoint.

[Bucky]

2. "They" meaning who? Blago wouldn't wait & was within his rights.

The Senate caucus could have resisted, but lacked the legal grounds to deny him the seat. Unless the state lege could have impeached Blago within a day or two, this Burris mess was destined to happen.

[Renew Deal]

3. The Senate didn't lack "legal grounds", they lacked guts

They could have kept him out. Reid said he would, and then he caved (as usual).

[joeybee12]

5. That's right...they would have been perfectly within their right to not

seat him, but burris played the poor elderly black man just trying to do a good job.

[earthside]

4. I think you are correct.

Poor Roland is just out of his depth.

But since he never sent a check to the governor's campaign nor did any fundraising for him (as I understand it), then it looks to me like Burris probably did not do anything criminally wrong.