“Rock stars don’t go to jail! (scoffs) Christ, Vince Neal only did 30 days and he killed somebody!”

The Senate is little different. I’m sure Reid would love to get rid of Burris, but I put the odds at 25%, at best, that he gets expelled. Unless he actually directly committed a crime himself, if the Senate expels him, it sets too broad a precedent for expelling other members.

There’s no such thing as a “clean” US Senator…all of them have blood on their hands (in some cases literally) because you don’t get to that level of power without knowing how to slip a few knives into backs. It’s a very safe bet that if the Democrats expel Burris, the Republicans will immediately try to expel some other Democrat who’s even dirtier than Burris is…probably a southern Democrat in a state that has a Republican governor. And they’ll manage to find something so heinous that inevitably a few Dems in shaky districts (so to speak) will cross party lines.

Realistically, the only way Burris stops being a senator is if he’s done something much, much worse than what’s been revealed so far…and he steps down to avoid it becoming public.

OR, maybe…MAYBE…the Illinois legislature passes a law that calls for a special election in the next two weeks or something equally soon that effectively forces Burris out before the media cycle spins away his current taint. But if they couldn’t act quickly enough to block Blago from appointing Burris in the first place, I doubt they’ll do it now.

Heaven forefend that the Democrats fail to get 60 seats!

He’s a Democrat. The only way he can be removed now that he’s been confirmed is for him to voluntarily resign – or have the Senate formally expel him.

Wanna bet?