Three-Ring Circus...

There are many who find politics boring. I just don't get that. Every time I go to the grocery story and stand in line at the check out, I see racks of magazines about celebrities and their personal lives. I guess I just don't care if some actress is dating some other actor that much. I mean I guess it's good to know as a conversation piece but it doesn't really register with me as vital. But politics is probably crazier than any Hollywood love triangle and unlike the stories in the tabloids, usually has a direct impact on our lives.

Take this whole crazy situation in Illinois, you know, the home state of our new president-elect. The governor there is under investigation by the FBI for trying to sell Barack Obama's senate seat. He denies it of course but they have him on tape basically saying it. I can't wait to see how his lawyers spin that in court. So the Illinois state legislature threatens to impeach Gov. Blagojevich, and he calls their bluff and just goes ahead and appoints Ronald Burris to fill Obama's vacant seat, which until he's impeach is within his power to do so. But since he's being charged with corruption directly pretaining to said seat, well things get a little sticky.

Which brings us to today, the day where Burris just showed up in D.C. trying to get sworn in and was promptly rejected by the leadership in his own party. Now personally I don't like Burris that much. He's obviously an opportunist, who at one point in this crazy fiasco called for the governor's impeachment and argued against any appointment, that is until he himself became that appointment. Now he think's its God's will. *rolls eyes* All this is a stupid distraction during a time we should be focused on the economy, not on a single senate seat. But if Americans are anything these days, we are easily distracted.