Douchebag of the Week (May 23-29)
Is it 2011 yet? We’ll leave the open calls for sending a man to an early grave in the hands of Fox News, but perhaps Roland Burris could do all of us a favor and not worry about adding more time in the U.S. Senate to that list of achievements at the mausoleum he’s already constructed for himself. If he took the time to actually consider the people he’s supposedly representing, he could etch “2009” in as the conclusion to one very sorry episode that got even sorrier last week.
Federal wiretaps released on Tuesday revealed Burris more or less begging the brother of Illinois’ first impeached governor for the Senate appointment. Burris’ excuse?:
Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) said Wednesday that his comments about donating money to then-Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich’s campaign fund in November were intended only to “placate” the governor’s brother and keep Burris’ Senate prospects alive.
Oh, right. Placating, of course. Only to Roland Burris could it possibly make sense that his actions didn’t constitute an ethical violation because he was lying.
While the Republicans don’t have the muscle and the Democrats don’t have the spine to ouster Burris, it’s discouraging all the same that nobody can manage to do what Burris should have done quite some time ago and rid the nation’s capital of one more douchebag.
