{"id":394,"date":"2008-12-30T16:04:24","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T16:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=394"},"modified":"2008-12-30T16:04:24","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T16:04:24","slug":"democrats_in_the_senate_will_n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"Democrats In The Senate Will Not Seat Obama&#8217;s Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=D95D7M180&amp;show_article=1\">Breitbart.com<\/a>&nbsp;Senators Harry Reid and Dick Durbin have released a statement saying that they would not seat Former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris as Barack Obama&#8217;s Senate replacement.&nbsp; They have stated that they feel that the taint of scandal would follow any appointment made by Governor Blagojevich and would not be acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Blagojevich has denied the charges against him and has been unwilling to resign as Governor of Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>Technically, Senators Reid and Durbin do have the right to refuse to seat Attorney General Burris and politically it is probably a very smart move&#8211;it shows that they are taking a stand against corruption.&nbsp; However, Governor Blagojevich has not been convicted of any crimes, and the charges against him have not really been detailed.&nbsp; His &#8216;selling&#8217; of a Senate seat may have crossed the line, but as far as we know, he never actually sold it.&nbsp; Chicago (or Illinois) politics is not know for its openness and honesty, I do wonder about the timing of this whole dust up and why Blagojevich seems to be singled out.&nbsp; I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Breitbart.com&nbsp;Senators Harry Reid and Dick Durbin have released a statement saying that they would not seat Former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris as Barack Obama&#8217;s Senate replacement.&nbsp; They have stated that they feel that the taint of scandal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=394\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}