SOMEBODY SHOULD TELL THIS GUY TO STFU

A hack Representative from Illinois is accusing Senate Democrats of being racist pigs:

Obama: Between a Rod and a hard place
By JONATHAN MARTIN & CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN 12/31/08 8:33 AM EST
POLITICO
It’s not clear Reid can block Burris. But Obama’s bigger headache could come from a longtime South Side congressman and one-time rival – Rep. Bobby Rush – who is unmistakably daring officials not to block the ascension of an African-American to replace Obama.

“I would ask you to not hang or lynch the appointee while you castigate the appointer,” Rush said at Blagojevich’s news conference. “Let me just remind you that there presently is no African-American in the U.S. Senate.”

Rush gets worse:

Bobby Rush warns Democratic senators
December 31, 2008 at 7:28 AM

A day after making racially charged remarks warning critics of Roland Burris's appointment to the U.S. Senate to "not hang or lynch the appointee as you try to castigate" disgraced Gov. Rod Blagojevich, U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush said today that senators "don't want to see themselves in the same position" as George Wallace, Bull Connor and others who promoted segregation in the Civil Rights era.