Stick It To Harry

The Senate should and probably will seat Roland Burris; the legal case for letting him be the Senator from Illinois is overwhelming. Also, Burris will be no worse, and probably better, than the vast majority of his colleagues in the Party of Pusillanimity, the POP. Obviously too, he’s light years better than any of the GOP Senators. Even a turnip would be better than those bought and paid for scoundrels – the miscreants Barack Obama, that paragon of “bipartisanship,” is trying his best now to win over, by conceding everything he can away with!
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But the main thing is this: seating Burris will be tantamount to throwing egg (alas, not shoes!) in the face of Harry Reid. For all the cowardice he has exhibited since becoming Majority Leader – most recently, for his abject support of Israeli crimes in Gaza -- the man deserves a lot more than being made a fool of. But in the words of soon to be Senator Caroline Kennedy’s father: “life is unfair.” There is, of course, the question of selective prosecution; nearly all Reid’s fellow Democrats are as bad or worse. But we defenders of minimal decency have to take what we can get