http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/us/politics/18illinois.html?em

The sad saga of Barack's former Senate seat continues with the latest revelation of Burress, and I paraphrase here: "Oh yes I forgot, I guess I did speak to a relative of Blago's...oh and I guess I forgot, but I did some fund raising, but it is OK because no one coughed up a dime..." Now his initial statements were sworn affidavits, so I fail to understand why he is not up on ethics charges. Here he is, appointed by a corrupt, impeached former governor who was trying to auction off the very seat that Burress is now holding. I read somewhere that this now allows dems thinking of running against him some cover. Why they would need cover defies imagination. I would think that anyone who is considering running against Burress would hardly need cover. The man is a joke, and a bad one at that.