On the subject of what the Senate may do (as opposed to what may be right and proper, and as opposed to what I may or may not advocate), I heard an interview of someone on NPR this morning (and I didn't get who it was), who said that a possibility was to assign the issue of Burris's membership to the Senate Rules Committee, who might hold up the question long enough to let the appropriate people in Illinois deal with the problem.


I don't know enough about Burris to have an opinion on his suitability.    I do tend to think that the Illinois legislature or the Illinois Supreme Court need to deal with it in the end.

Dave Oesterreich