If he doesn’t go to prison, I can’t imagine him ever being reelected to anything; even if the case totally stinks and he’s being railroaded, I doubt the sympathy would cancel out the fact that no one thought he was good at his job even before he was accused of being illegally, sociopathically corrupt.
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- The state legislature. The downside is that they’ve let Blagojevich go ahead and appoint a Senator. The upside is they look feckless and incompetent. I am all for the latter. Probably not a net positive, but there you go.
The second is whether or not, in the event that Burris could successfully be blocked, it would create terrible precedent. As Duncan Black puts it: “I was actually losing a little sleep over these shenanigans, as it opens the door for seriously playing politics with the process of seating senators. And once you open those doors, Republicans are good at running through them.” That’s a strategic question, and above my head.
