Just when I think US politics can't get any more ridiculous, yesterday Rod Blagojevich wanted to nominate Oprah Winfrey to serve in the Senate next to Kirsten Gillibrand.
Nominating Oprah is a fine idea. She's been so much in the public eye that if she had any dirty secrets beyond her disordered eating we would all know about them. I don't know her grasp of politics, but I know she speaks more articulately than Sarah Palin and Caroline Kennedy.
I object, though, to the idea of Blagojevich nominating anyone, even if Aung San Suu Kyi were a citizen. Once he made it clear that he thought he should profit from the nomination, that power should have been wrested from his greedy hands. And somebody should have fed him a bar of soap.
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