which Humble Elias more or less predicted last week as you may recall. Truthfully, once Patrick Fitzgerald indicted Blagojevich then the worst possible outcome was effectively scotched. Either the Illinois Governor was gonna put the seat up for auction or else he was gonna appoint himself to the seat...after the process servers found him, Blago's only option was a last bid to embarrass the US senate and the President Elect.
Well he has accomplished both goals and now can be quietly disgraced, dragged from office and speedily forgotten.
No taint seems to cling to Burris, whose worst sin is a sort of preposterous egomania common among Massachusetts state representatives, there are incomparably worse men contaminating the upper house even as I write this. So the cost of keeping him away from the sinecure seems prohibitively high. I say seat him, unless compelling evidence of corruption is presented.
No...the only postscript to the affair is the poor shopwing made by the normally astute Harry Reid and the senate democrats, they got caught in a beautiful bind jointly set up by Blagojevich and the Illinois state legistlature. The lege declined to remove Blago's power of appointment and thus the problem was exported to DC for final disposal. Reid should've kept his mouth shut under those circumstances...oh well, live and learn.
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