Who Is Roland Burris? someone who has never done anything in his life that counted for beans that made it into the senate see obama trail
You misunderstand the role of the Senate. The "World's Greatest Deliberative Body" is not intended to reward accomplishment.
Instead, the Senate's purpose is to give self-important, posturing blowhards a place where they can feel, well, self-important.
View it as a menagerie of arrogant ignorance. On both sides of the aisle.