The Video Via CNN:
The Story via Chicago Tribune’s “The Swamp”:
Roland Burris of Illinois, rejected in his attempt to take a new seat in the Senate this morning, averted any public showdown by quietly accepting the refusal of his credentials inside the Secretary of the Senate’s office on the third floor of the Capitol.
"My name is Roland Burris, the junior Senator from the State of Illinois," Burris told reporters later as he stood in the rain in a park outside the Capitol. "I was advised that my credentials were not in order."
The former attorney general of Illinois said he would take legal action, challenging the Senate’s refusal, but averted any showdown at the door of the Senate chambers. "I am not seeking to have any kind of confrontation," Burris added.
Off the Capitol grounds where his entry to the Senate had been refused, Burris was left to his own – the Capitol police who had escorted him away from the Capitol leaving him to a press conference in the park.
A podium was set up in a park across the street from the Capitol outside the Russell Office Building.
Timothy W. Wright, a lawyer for Burris, said: "We have presented our credentials to the Secretary of the Senate… Our credentials were rejected by the secretary… We were not allowed to proceed to the floor… ” He, too, vowed to fight the case.
Burris got into a silver minivan with Massachusetts plates at 11:03 am EST and drove away. It was an Odyssey.
Man, where’s Al Sharpton when you need him? 
Oh, wait, it’s winter, he might be available come summer time. 
Can’t a brutha get no respect on the hill? 
Anyhow, enough of attempting to make Liberal and Weak Kneed Conservatives knees jerk. This should be a very interesting story to follow, what will most likely happen is, that Burris will got to court and they will tell the Senate that you have to seat him. Although, seeing his paperwork was missing a signature, he might not have no standing. So, it’s a draw.
It does, however, make for some very cool blogging. 
Others: AmSpecBlog, American Power, American Spectator, WebNewser, Gothamist, QandO, Chicago Sun Times, Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, Gateway Pundit, and PoliPundit.com (Via Memeorandum)
No one has mentioned the small fact that Burris has a consulting firm that donated 300 000.00 to blago crooks govs campaign. publid record….HE BOUGHT AND PAID FOR THE BOBUS APPOINTMENT…LEGAL MY BUTT, QUALIFIED: YEA TO FLEECE THE PUBLIC. my lord when will it ever end….and all these people that support him the blind leadeing the blind into a ditch.,
In January of 2007 Tennessee Democrat Stephen I. Cohen attempted to become the first white member of the Congressional Black Caucus. He was turned down. The reason given was, “It’s an unwritten rule. It’s understood. It’s clear [that white people will never be a member].” Mr. Clay added that since Mr. Cohen had been refused membership, “It’s time [for Cohen] to move on.”
Rep. William Lacy Clay Sr., D-Mo., a co-founder of the caucus, had circulated a memo telling members it was “critical” that the group remain “exclusively African-American.”
Other members, including the new chairwoman, Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Mich., and Clay’s son, Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-Mo., agreed.
“Mr. Cohen asked for admission, and he got his answer. … It’s time to move on,” the younger Clay said.
Where was the media then?? Oh, I forgot. It’s only “racism” when blacks don’t get their way, right?? Can you say “double-standard”??
By the way, no one has EVER called Roland Burris “darky”, you race-card playing morons!
Heh, Michael, I was being snarky… But thanks for the comments anyhow.
-Pat