The Rats caved on the Burris nomination because Blago was going to take down a lot of people with him, if they kept pushing. The feds have Emanuel on tape, telling Blago to go with the SEIU deal because that would have the fewest Obama fingerprints on it. The SEIU is going to be the basis for a lot of Obama legislation and bail-out money.
Fitzpatrick already agreed to push back the hearings until April to give this time to die down. Then Reid opened it all up again. Stupid is as stupid does.
sorry for my cluelessness but what is SEIU?