Neither Franken nor Burris were sworn in today.<\/p>\n
Burris was turned away because Harry Reid is taking a stand on principle<\/a>, which he will shortly fold on, and Franken was not seated because the Republicans are using Reid’s brief flirtation with principle as a fig leaf for politics<\/a>.<\/p>\n And I just heard on Countdown<\/span> that the head of the Senate Rules Committee, Diane Feinstein,*<\/sup> has said that in fact Burris’s paperwork is in order.<\/p>\n This is FUBAR.<\/p>\n *<\/sup>Full disclosure, my great grandfather, Harry Goldman, and her grandfather, Sam Goldman were brothers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Neither Franken nor Burris were sworn in today. Burris was turned away because Harry Reid is taking a stand on principle, which he will shortly fold on, and Franken was not seated because the Republicans are using Reid’s brief flirtation with principle as a fig leaf for politics. And I just heard on Countdown that …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}