Blago: Hey Harry Reid, I TRIPLE DOG DARE YOU To Not Seat A Nice Old Black Man [UPDATE]

Blago, he's good today. He set up this press conference to announce his surprise Senate pick, and here he is, dressed to the nines, punctual, grinning, even rattling off a few well-turned sentences in Mexican. He knows he's politically outmaneuvered Harry Reid, which is perhaps the easiest achievement known to man, but still: "Blagojevich's news conference came less than an hour after U.S. Senate Democratic leadership issued a statement saying the Senate will not seat anyone the governor chooses to fill Illinois' vacant Senate post." O RLY, Democratic leadership? You're going to REFUSE this nice, experienced, elderly black gentleman a legally valid seat in the Senate? Ha ha, no you won't!

Obviously this hilarious standoff will end with Harry Reid castrating himself and letting Rod Blagojevich become the new Senate Majority Leader.UPDATE: Aha! Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush also spoke at the presser to offer his support of Burris, and he saidTHIS:  "I would ask you not to hang or lynch the appointee as you try to castigate the appointor." HA HA HA, yeah c'mon Harry Reid, stop lynching black people, it's a dick move. This will beamazing .

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