So, I don’t really think I need to go into some great big diatribe about Rod Blagojevich. He’s a charlatan and a crook, and he’s lucky that we are a nation of laws, because that means that his punishment will not include being strung up in downtown Chicago and beaten to death with flaming, barbed wire baseball bats. That he insists on carrying on as if he’s still a legitimate leader is symptomatic of our times. We live in a kingdom of shamelessness, where there is no such thing as disgrace or dignity, only jeuvenile foot stomping and, apparently, seven dollar haircuts. When acting like a whore, whether it’s in Hollywood or Washington or Chi-town, is apparently enough to keep your name in the press.

And I’m not at all impressed with Blago’s “brilliant” bit of strategy, selecting a second rate public servant with no personal integrity to fill Obama’s spot in some callous attempt to play the race card. Yep. Burris is black. And no, I don’t give a shit. He’s unfit to take the position, and the reasoning is very simple. Any person who would willingly accept Rod Blagojevich’s offer, knowing what sickly corruption his administration functions beneath, is unfit to serve in the Senate. Any man that lacks the integrity or the common bloody sense to say, “No, I won’t be a part of this!” is unfit to fill the seat. And don’t scoff. Rumor has it that Burris was Blago’s third pick, because the first two turned him down rather than sully their names. Add to that the fact that Burris went from being outraged to being willing to let the courts decide whether he should be outraged about the seat selling in the first place, and you know what? Fuck Ronald Burris. Even for a politician, that’s an amazing lack of class.

On the sunny side of the Senate, it looks like Norm Coleman, a man who looks so unelectably sleazy I wouldn’t even leave him in the same room as other peoples’ daughters, is going to be packing up his shit and moving back home to Minnesota, because Al Franken squeaked by at the end of the recount. There are still some legal hoops Coleman can make Franken jump through, but the deal is essentially done. Fraken is a senator, and Coleman is a has-been. I hope it burns that he lost to a guy who has pictures of himself wearing a fuzzy, pink bunny suit on the internet.

And I hope Franken keeps on being Franken, because as sarcastic as he can be as a comic, I’ve heard the man talk politics and he’s for real. In fact, I’ve heard him give a first rate schooling to plenty a pundit and representative that thought they were safe behind a carefully crafted wall of empty talking points. And that’s the reason I want to see him in the Senate. Because the man is a fastidious bullshit detector, and he gets more than a “this supports my side” understanding of the details before he opens his mouth. And for all the talk of “outsider-ism”, he truly is an outsider in terms of the political system in Washington. And if nothing else, his election to public office probably gave Bill O’Rielly another ulcer. And that’s something I’m sure we can all take a little joy in.

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