Pretty damned big. If he wanted to put his Democratic colleagues in a huge bind, he could hardly have done a better job than by nominating a black candidate to fill Obama's seat in the Senate. Now the Democratic Senate leaders are totally screwed. Either they seat Roland Burris and deliver the death blow to the argument that they are somehow less corrupt than the Republicans, and that concept has been on life-support for months at this point anyway, or they refuse to seat Burris and risk looking like a bunch of old white guys conspiring to keep the Senate lilly-white.
Tough choice. Thanks Blago!
What's interesting to me is that, in the real world where normal people live, you don't act this spitefully unless you believe you've been seriously wronged in some way. What the Blago appointment tells me is that he feels he's being persecuted unfairly by Democratic party leaders.
Have things gotten so bad in government that an obvious scumbag like Blagojevich can honestly believe that he has done nothing wrong?
Sleep well on that thought, America, because an awful lot of similarly disgusting scumbags remain in the Senate and Congress... and now they have access to even more of your money.
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It will be fun to watch Harry Reid impersonate George Wallace by standing on the steps of Congress and refusing to seat Roland Burris.
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