I agree with something I read on the far-left MyDD.

Burris is getting to a point where his legal guilt and innocence are irrelevant; that's a very bad place to be. As clammyc puts it, "Political guilt is different from guilt in a court of law" and it's pretty clear that Burris is tainted by the former if not the latter. At the very least, as WaPo states plainly, Burris has violated the public trust. His constant protestations to the contrary just become all the sadder with every new revelation.

The next step must be for Democratic Senate leaders to demand his resignation and for the Illinois legislature to do what it should have done much earlier: call for a special election to fill the seat. I agree with The Tribune:

Strip this whole wretched process out of the hands of the politicians and give it back to the people.

The Senate Ethics Committee has launched an investigation.

Patterico provides the big picture:

In unrelated news, today Barack Obama (one day earlier than promised) signed the death warrant for our children’s financial future — which passed by exactly 60 votes in the Senate. A Senate where we have one Democrat who made it in by hiding the fact that he was asked to pay to play — and where a Republican lost an election after losing a criminal trial where the government hid evidence from him.

That may be a little too "inside baseball" if you're not keeping up with the news--Burris of course is the disposable Democrat brought on to vote on the stimulus and now being discarded. Ted Stevens, long-serving Senator from Alaska, was defeated on the basis of federal allegations that he was a crook. Now as it turns out, its the federal prosecutors who are the crooks.