Today’s New York Times features an op ed by notable attorney Walter Dellinger. It’s a concise brief on the Burris senate appointment standoff, concluding that Burris should be seated.
If the Democratic leadership is afraid the mere taint of Blagojevich’s appointing Burris will lose the seat to Republicans in the next election, it occurs to me that a challenge to Burris in the Democratic primary could solve the problem. I haven’t heard this mentioned anywhere, and I wonder why not. If Illinois Democrats want someone other than Burris for their candidate in the next general election (2010), let them express that in the primary. If by that time they want Burris, then more power to Burris. Seems to me this is a better solution than the increasingly silly circus the near-baseless blocking of Burris has become.
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