Comments combined from two blogs at HuffPo on the Blago-Burris scandal.
If Reid has any manhood at all, he'd plan to flop on this grenade by letting burris get seated and then resign as Majority Leader. That ANYONE would agree to be pig-boy blago's appointment to the Senate is a testament to their clear lacking in character.
It shouldn't be for the Senate to decide. But since there IS a "man" with no morals, scruples, nor smarts (pretty clear to me to be the only way you can accept this appointment from blago), they should give burris one or two nothing appointments to serve on do-nothing committees. Every Senator will have to refuse every "co-sponsor" attempt Burris makes, because of the stain the man will leave on everything he's associated with. Any legislation Burris may author will be tainted and will simply die in committee.
It's a tragedy, really. Illinois has been robbed of it's constitutional rights to 2 Senators. They will have 1 Senator and one guy with a big cat-in-the-hat-like cloud of scandal over his head who won't be capable of doing anything at all other than vote on legislation... and who knows what in the world he might do then, too.
Could Reid have helped himself by having a spine? Sure. Sadly, if there were more Dem Senators with spines, Reid wouldn't be majority leader at all. THAT is the core of the problem.
However, Burris has a chance to create a positive legacy when this is all said and done. If Burris resigns when a new governor takes office in Illinois so that someone else can actually do the job, he can claim that he always intended to minimize the damages that could have been inflicted by other blago appointees. Burris can then go on with life as the guy who fell on the sword for the integrity of Illinois. Short of that, he'll be a laughing stock.
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