Senator Burris is going to have to get someone out to the cemetery right away to update his resume tombstone.

The whole Burris affair played out like the political equivalent of a modern day slasher film. You know the formula: a bunch of teenagers go to a cabin in the woods for summer vacation and are stalked by a guy with a chainsaw or wearing a hockey mask.

We know how the movie ends even before it begins, of course, but the fun part - if horror films are your cup of tea - is to see how the carnage unfolds.

In the Burris film, Harry Reid starred as one of the clueless teenagers (with Barack Obama playing a supporting role), wandering around thinking he had the situation under control when in fact he was a dead man walking. Everyone watching knew it but him - though eventually it dawned on the Senator as well.

If you believe what you saw and heard yesterday, this horror movie had a happy ending, with everyone sitting around singing each other's praises. But, politically speaking, Harry Reid got cut to pieces.  He'd better hope there isn't a sequel.