How many days have passed since Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid, the
Nevada Democrat, vowed that he'd never, ever, ever seat anyone touched by the leprous hand of Illinois
Gov. Rod Blagojevich?
And how many days since Reid's ripe second banana, Sen.
Dick Durbin (D-Big Jim), scoffed that the appointment of
Roland Burris was "an act of political defiance that will lead nowhere"?
Actually, it was only 17 days ago Friday, but does it matter anymore, really?
It stopped mattering the moment President-elect
Barack Obama privately told Reid—with a metaphorical slap in the mouth the Chicago Way—to stop stalling and seat the guy from Illinois and get his home state's political corruption out of the news and away from his
inauguration festivities.
So on Thursday afternoon in Washington, Roland "Tombstone" Burris raised his right hand and was asked if he would uphold the Constitution. "I do," Tombstone said.