Roland Burris has been blocked from taking a valuable fucking thing (read: Senate Seat) as Secretary of the Senate, Nancy Erickson has rejected Blago's pick. Currently Burris is speaking with his lawyers to figure out his options.

In light of the scandal and his refusal to either step down or at least not appoint anyone to the Senate seat he reportedly tried to sell, Blago is taking Burris down with him. The question on most people's minds has been how much did Burris pay for that seat? Without trying to figure out why anyone in his right mind who had bribed a governor for a Senate seat would accept the nomination while said governor was under investigation for attempting to sell said Senate seat, we've all just assumed Burris bought it. That's just what Blago wants us to think.

Innocently enough, it all started in a Chicago diner in 2005 over blueberry waffles and coffee. Burris and Blagojevich had been enjoying a friendly breakfast when Rod joked, "if you keep eating all of that bacon you'll have a lot of space left on your tombstone," referring to Burris' pre-built tombstone with space left for future accomplishments. Burris, always sensitive about the issue of having built his own monument, immediately took offense and called Mrs. Blagojevich a "trollop with the mouth of a sailor and the sexual appetites of the Marquis de Sade." Blagojevich returned with comments regarding Burris' children Roland and Rolanda before skipping out on the bill.

The animosity between the two furthered as Burris began to leave harassing and scandalous messages for Blagojevich and his wife. Blagojevich responded by slashing Burris tires and throwing a brick through his windshield. The back forth petty attacks between Burris and Blago escalated in severity until the hatred had amassed to Burr-Hamilton levels. Blagojevich began his attempt to sell the vacant Senate seat with the objective of raising enough money to hire "a fucking guy to take that fucking asshole out with a fucking gun. I'm trying to pay to have him killed if you catch my drift." Unfortunately for Blago, and consequently Burris, he was overzealous in his work and failed to cover his tracks properly ending in his arrest on corruption charges.

Or so it seemed. Sitting in county lock up and realizing that he could not live in a world, or jail, where his arch nemesis had bested him, Blago considered the once unthinkable. Blago would go down, but he would go down swinging hard enough to take Burris with him, and so he appointed Burris to the Senate seat he had tried so hard to sell.