Roland Burris is a master strategist who needs our support

 

 

We get a lot of very strange and downright nasty hate mail around here because we speak our minds, support people we like in both parties, and every day hit the socialists in the current White House with everything we’ve got.  

Doing this is harder than many of you can ever realize, because it costs us friends and opportunities too numerous to mention, particulary here in Chicago, where we long ago had the choice of either going along with the madness of the Utopia Administration and getting good political (or political related) jobs in Democrat controlled Chicago or struggling along as we do, as pariahs for the moment, until the rest of the country wakes up to the horror show Dr. Utopia has inflicted.  We do this because we think it needs to be done and are willing to suffer the consequences for it in hopes that more people out there will speak up too. 

Another person who has taken a nonstop barrage of hate and scorn is Senator Roland Burris, the greatest hero we have in the Senate today, and someone we will go to bat for eight days a week. 

Let the hate mail begin. 

We get four or five emails a day asking us why we support Senator Burris, why we are big fans of him personally, and why we keep insisting people back off him and let him do his thing. 

Senator Burris has been wronged by just about every Democrat in Washington at this point. 

He is a distinguished CPA and Auditor who believes in balanced budgets and fiscal sanity. 

He is an honorable man whose reputation and good name were dragged through the mud by the media at the behest of none other than Rahm Emanuel and Valerie Jarrett personally.  And we know that for a damn fact it came straight from those two Gossip Girls, the orchestrated attacks on Burris when the White House wanted a number of others, from Lisa Madigan to Jarrett herself to take that Senate seat. 

Burris stepped up when called to serve the people of Illinois, as he always has throughout his career.  He knew being appointed to the Senate by Blagojevich would mean sticking his neck out like never before, and getting pounded left and right by the White House and its media propaganda machine.  

Burris knew the stress this would put on his family, but he chose to serve anyway.  

When we asked him to march in Chicago’s Pride Parade, becoming the first sitting Senator to represent Illinois in the parade in as long as anyone can remember, he agreed immediately.  ”Where and when do I have to be there?”.  Remember, Dr. Utopia refused to march in any Pride parades his entire public career…including June 29th, 2008 when he got his hair cut on the Southside of Chicago and played basketball at the East Bank Club downtown instead of marching in Pride.  

Shameful. 

But by now you all know well how we feel about that. 

And you should know how we feel about Burris. 

But, do you realize how smart this man is? Do you realize Senator Roland Burris has the potential to save our Republic by being the craftiest, sharpest, wiliest Senator we currently have?

Burris is liberal Democrats’ worst possible nightmare, because he is insisting — all caps, INSISTING — that no healthcare bill will pass without a public option, massive government insurance agency.  INSISTING.  He has pledged to the far left that he will be a vanguard of this and will not, under any circumstances, allow the Utopiacare bill to pass without that public option. 

Put aside your feelings about the public option itself and play a little 11th dimensional chess on this for a bit. 

Burris is, essentially, the architect of the Democrats’ civil war.  We certainly don’t know what he is thinking, but considering how smart he is (the man speaks three languages, studied constitutional law overseas, was instrumental in cleaning up massive amounts of financial fraud in our state, and can pull facts and figures out of memory faster than anyone we have ever met), it’s sure an awesome intellectually, political, and ideological trap of epic proportions from where we sit.  

(1) Burris’ stance has revved up the left to pressure other Dem Senators to also refuse to vote for any Utopiacare bill that does not have a public option (Sherrod Brown, Al Franken, and Colonel Sanders have all taken a stand with Burris on this).  

(2) Burris will block any attempt to end filibuster if there is no public option.  Dems need 60 votes to end filibuster and push Utopiacare through, so Burris alone will stop that…but it looks like he’ll have at least three others backing him too. 

(3) Joe Leiberman is our other national hero, in that he has refused to vote to end filibuster if Dems DO include a public option provision.  Lieberman’s play here would not work without Burris putting the pressure on the other side, so together they ensure filibuster will kill Utopiacare. 

(4) Absent Burris, the liberal leftists would not be as revved up and angry as they are now at the White House.  If Roland Burris is fighting for public option, why isn’t Dr. Utopia himself?  Why is the man everyone maligns who holds Utopia’s current Senate seat fighting so hard, but the current president is up to Liza knows what, possibly having tickle fights and giggle contests in the Oval Office with Rahm Emanuel and Eric Holder.

Do you have any appreciation whatsoever for that means for Dr. Utopia’s remaining time in office?

The Left is a notorious grudge-holder of the most irrational and implacable variety.  Once something gets into their craw, oncce someone they supported “betrays” them or falls short on their litmus test, the Moveon.org and Daily Kos lunatic squads set out for blood.  Those who built this particular monster will tear him to shreds if they believe he is not toeing their line and obeying liberal directives.  And that public option is something the liberal Left is willing to go to all-out-war for.  

Burris’ actions are making that war possible.  

If not for him, we doubt Brown, Franken, and Sanders would have gone on the line with this.  Burris is not seeking re-election, so he could stick his neck out and run this gambit.  The  others want to remain in the Senate, and so would have been unwilling to draw the line in the sand.  It is far, far easier to stand behind someone who has done that for you. 

Burris, for his part, gets to watch the White House that maligned him self-destruct.  Emanuel and Jarrett must be apoplectic over the forced issue of public option.  There is no good that can come of this for the White House, because Burris-Leiberman forced there to be just two paths taken, both leading nowhere:

(A) Public Option is dropped, so liberals go to war with the White House and remove his strongest, most active, most Kool-Aid crazed supporters for 2010 and 2012 (remember, everyone, the excuse for losing New Jersey and Virginia in the elections earlier this month was that Dr. Utopia’s voters didn’t turn out because they didn’t know he wanted them to; well, Democrats need those voters to turnout in 2008 numbers to avert a midterm debacle…and Libs won’t want to turn out if public option wasn’t pushed through).

(B) Public Option is kept, and moderates and blue dogs in red states bail on this bill because they know voting for a public option ends their Congressional careers instantly. 

Either way, because of the ingenious machinations of Burris-Lieberman, Democrats will not have enough votes to end a Republican filibuster of this madness.  The GOP can read and re-read this bill over and over again, with each day more Americans realizing what a monstrosity it is, while Sarah Palin tosses out more of her Facebook comment throwing stars to keep lowering and lowering the approval rating of this entire measure. 

If Dr. Utopia, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid keep pushing this madness, it could lead to a national revolt to make the Tea Parties thus far look like, well, actual tea parties (of the sort former ballerina Rahm Emanuel would think it’s dreamy to bring a hunky Secret Service “escort” to). 

We know a lot of you have been reading us since the mention we got on Dennis Miller’s show, and that the hateful comments about Burris lately must be coming from a group that reads sites like Little Green Footballs or Ace of Spades — sites we also like for some things, but sites that unfairly take glee in making fun of Burris.  

All we ask is that you take a step back and think about 11th dimensional chess. 

Think about the man the White House and liberals treated so badly in the Senate…the man whose reputation they stepped all over and tossed into the trash…the man who was asked to fill a Senate vacancy and was villainized for it.  

We knew Roland Burris before he was a Senator.  He is a good, good, good man.  We know his heart. It is a servant’s heart.  

We might not know exactly what game Burris is playing with his bold moves in the Senate, but it sure looks like master strategy chess to us.