Roland Burris may be toast. The pressure mounting on Burris to resign went from zero to sixty pretty darn quick. Today, the Chicago Tribune and the Washington Post both call for him to step down, while the Chicago Sun-Times says that Burris "owes us the facts" on his dealings with Blagojevich.

Sun-Times columnist Mark Brown, who has recently lit Burris up in his columns as a "lying little sneak," says Blago played him for a fool. Meanwhile, Tribune columnist John Kass says there is some blame to go around for the Burris mess - even though the Hopium eaters don't want to hear about it.

Burris fought his way tooth and nail to get into the United States Senate.  But he also played the race card at the same time he told people not to convict him of guilt by association. Now, however, there is the admission of an association, the revelation of having told a string of lies, and his race has nothing to do with it.

Maybe Burris can fight his way out of this mess as well, but I doubt it.