Whoopie Cushions in the Senate: Burris to be seated

The joke's on Harry Reid. Again.

AP:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats plan to accept Roland Burris for President-elect Barack Obama's vacant seat.

Egg shortage declared in the Metropolitan Washington area. The entire current market supply is on Harry Reid's face.

This was just all kinds of stupid from the very beginning. Where was the reserved take-it-slow-ism for which the World's Greatest Deliberative Body is supposedly famous? This really should have been a "we'll see how things develop" situation from the get-go, and now it's just a giant embarrassment.

And yet another situation in which the Senators insisted they knew the rules and the law better than the Cheeto-munching morons of the blogosphere, and yet the blogosphere ends up calling it right.

Duh.

Duh, duh, duh!

UPDATE: Politico says Reid's office is denying this report.

And you know what? I almost hope it's true, despite having just come out and screamed "Duh!" at the Majority Leader of the Senate. Because if they end up seating Burris so soon after denying him even so much as access to the Senate floor, it's gonna look even more ridiculous. And although they would never have tried it, if they had taken up Burris' credentials first yesterday, just to settle the question, they could have actually shoehorned Franken in, too. Now that would have been a power play.