Dems in a pickle

I have to admit that I rather uncharitably chortled when I read the latest developments in the Blagojevich sitcom a few hours ago.

For those of you who have been catching up on your movie watching or getting your pork 'n' sauerkraut in the crock for tomorrow night, Blagojevich has appointed a former Illinois Attorney General, Roland Burris, to fill the seat vacated when Barack Obama was elected President and subsequently resigned from the Senate. Blagojevich has proceeded with this maneuver even though every single Democratic Senator has emphatically declared they will not seat whomever Blagojevich appoints.

BUT WAIT....there's more! Burris is African-American. Consequently, Blagojevich is questioning HOW ON EARTH the Democrats in the Senate can refuse to seat a black replacement for the first elected black President.

It only gets better (hee hee hee). Longtime Chicago-area Congressman Bobby Rush, also black, has waded into the fray to assert that the Senate had better not refuse to seat Roland Burris just because it is Blagojevich who has appointed him, a theme that, hilariously enough, Blagojevich also echoes. Forthwith, the embattled Governor's own words: "Please don't allow the allegations against me to taint a good and honest man...This is about Roland Burris as a U.S. senator, not about the governor who made the appointment."

This is one of those beautiful situations when political correctness has come back to bite its chief appropriators in the rear. They cannot win whichever way they turn. And Blagojevich, dirty rotten scoundrel that he admittedly is, knows it. What can you do but guffaw at the ludicrousness of it all?