Obacrats Choking On Crow

Senator Roland Burris.

Ha, ha, ha.

Obacrats are going to be choking on that one every time they have to utter the word, “Senator” in front of the name “Roland Burris,”  which is going to be a lot, since he is the junior senator from Illinois.  Now that the last petulantly and arbitrarily enforced roadblock has been inevitably removed, the always done deal is all but…done.  Since anybody whose brainwave shows more activity on an EEG than a flat line could figure out that it was the Obacrats in Illinois who figured that removing the non-Obacrat governor, Rod Blagojevich, from office so that an Obacrat could be installed, who would then appoint one of their number in the head Obacrat’s (the Obamessiah, himself) seat on their way to 60, would be a good idea, I say, no better for them.  Knowing that the beleaguered governor was perpetually under investigation by the Feds, dangling the “juicy plum” of Obama’s Senate seat in font of his face had to seem like a nifty way to get him on tape doing something stupid enough to get him arrested and maneuvered out of office under threat of impeachment, hopefully before the inauguration.  Otherwise, why resign the seat as soon as Obama did, earlier than anybody in history?  Too bad they didn’t think it through.

Chicago Tribune columnist, Eric Zorn, sees a parallel between Burris and soon-to-be-confirmed Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton:

From day one, the effort to prevent Burris from being seated looked like a sore-loser attempt to re-write the rules after the fact–kind of like Hillary Clinton’s campaign last spring to have the Florida and Michigan primaries count.

Not quite, Eric.  The Obacrats, in this instance, underestimated Blagojevich’s testicular fortitude, and overestimated their own.  Believing that they could once again manipulate public opinion enough to nullify an opponent and the law was a big gamble that this time, didn’t pay off.  Even the backing of the Big Brotherhood in Washington wasn’t enough for them to prevail, as it had been in May with the similar media/rule manipulation of the Florida and Michigan situation.  Then, “da roolz” could be enforced to Obama’s advantage, subject to only the cherry picked interpretation of the Obacratic Party, now, “da roolz” were superseded by the laws of the land.  Besides, Clinton, with her hands tied as they were, what with her desiring a future in what remains of the Democratic wing of the Obacratic party, didn’t have the luxury of being able to engage in the kind of bare knuckle, knockdown-drag out political street fighting that the desperate, back-to-the-wall on-his-way-out-the-door Blagojevich was similarly cornered into.

In the end, both Clinton and Blagojevich ultimately got far more out of the “go for bad” baby gangster Obacrats than the “pretender-playa,” tough guy “Chicago Way” wannabees were prepared to give.  Makes you wonder what the future holds for conflict resolution in the coming Obama administration, doesn’t it?