Things keep getting worse for Rollie. He's gone from mediocre and mockable but squeaky clean to iffy to typical pay-to-play Chicago pol in quite a short time. Of course he won't resign, and he probably won't opt out of reelection. The man is beyond shame--just check out his prebuilt masoleum. The only way to get him out is to primary him or expel him. I suspect that one or the other will be occurring soon.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Burris's plot thickens
Things keep getting worse for Rollie. He's gone from mediocre and mockable but squeaky clean to iffy to typical pay-to-play Chicago pol in quite a short time. Of course he won't resign, and he probably won't opt out of reelection. The man is beyond shame--just check out his prebuilt masoleum. The only way to get him out is to primary him or expel him. I suspect that one or the other will be occurring soon.
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The Man, The Myth, The Bio
- Lev
- East Bay, California, United States
- Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo. Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.