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Illinois government has been a laughingstock since before Christmas. That’s when our sleazy governor with the bouffant hair do was arrested for, among other things, trying to sell the open Senate seat vacated by incoming president Barack Obama.

Everyone wants the governor to resign. But that isn’t going to happen. Blagojevich, who’s been an embarrassment ever since taking office two — yes, Illinois voters voted him back in! — terms ago, is maintaining his innocence, despite overwhelming evidence that indicates he was using his governorship to make him and his wife rich.

Showing his defiance, Blagojevich recently appointed longtime political hack Roland Burris to Obama’s former seat. This was a shrewd move on Blagojevich’s part: Burris is black. He immediately picked up support because of this. Critics are also a bit muted partly because Chicago has such a long history of racial unrest. There’s still, unfortunately, a big divide between blacks and whites in the city. Chicago remains perhaps the most segregated city in the country.

So the news today is that Burris will probably get his Senate seat. This is disgusting. Burris should first of all be ashamed of himself for even accepting a nomination from such a tainted official as Blagojevich. Burris knows exactly why Blagojevich appointed him. The governor is using Burris to stick it to everyone who wants to see him locked up as soon as possible.

The news is disappointing, too, because it shows that despite Obama’s election, the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois is nowhere near solving its racial problems. I guess it was naive to think otherwise.

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