I'm really tempted to make a Chinatown joke here ("My mother! My sister!") but the situation is funny enough as it is. Will he or won't he? I guess no one is sure. Now that's Leadership! Reid denies, says the AP lies!

I almost feel sorry for Burris. AFAIC, he's not really that bad, and Blogo hasn't been convicted of anything yet. Seems to me the rather lazy IL lege needs to come back from vacation and do their jobs. Clearly, making this a national issue has only made the Dem party as a whole look even more stupid and clueless.

So there was some hoo-ha over the NV caucus process and the Hillbama people were calling each other nasty names and making all sorts of accusations. I came across this, somewhere in the middle of the pie-throwing:

The day after New Year's 1996, operatives for Barack Obama filed into a barren hearing room of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners.

There they began the tedious process of challenging hundreds of signatures on the nominating petitions of state Sen. Alice Palmer, the longtime progressive activist from the city's South Side. And they kept challenging petitions until every one of Obama's four Democratic primary rivals was forced off the ballot.

Petition challenging progressives and South Siders: a Republican tactic.

I know the Chicago Way is rough, but that crosses a line. This made my blood boil: