"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the most honest Senator of them all?" 

Not Roland Burris, apparently. 

Burris, that untouchable former attorney general who was one of the few Illinois pols to come out of the Blagojevich pay-to-play scandal unscathed, admitted over the weekend that he was asked to help the then-governor's brother raise funds before he was offered the Senate seat left vacant by Obama. 

Now there's no evidence so far that Burris was complicit in any sort of pay-to-play agreement; some documents have surfaced that reveal he had more contact with Blagojevich aides than he earlier suggested. The problem is that he suggested the minimal contact under oath. And since no one ever says one thing and does another in Washington (wink, wink), lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are outraged and questioning whether they can ever trust anything Burris ever says again. 

Burris' initial appointment to the seat left vacant by Obama caused a lot of controversy. Senate  leadership, including Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) put up a fight, objecting to seating him at all together. But Reid caught a lot of flack -- especially from those who pointed out that with Obama gone to the White House, Burris would be the only African American serving in the Senate -- and Reid backed down. 

Burris says transcripts of his statements to the Illinois legislature will show he is in the clear, but GOP leaders out of Illinois say Burris is crooked and are calling for his immediate resignation. Dems are sitting back and waiting for a pending ethics investigation in Illinois to run its course, reportedly hoping Burris gets booted without their involvement so they can seamlessly shift their focus to gearing up to support potential Democratic contenders in 2010, like Rep. Jane Shakowsky (D-Il.) or state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias. 

Turning to Obamaland, the president is scheduled sign his $787 stimulus package into law today, marking the first legislative victory of his term. But he won't add his John Hancock to the bill with those pesky, partisan lawmakers standing by in the White House or chambers of the Capitol. Obama left the Beltway for Denver, where he's looking to play up the "green" focus of the bill -- that's green for environment, not just money -- by surrounding himself with leaders in "new energy technology" at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. 

Now that the stimulus is presumably being signed into law, officials across the board have to figure out how to spend their newly acquired cash. And Republicans, who voted by in large part against the tax-and-spending package in an attempt to stick it to Barack's promise of working across party lines, are figuring out how the spend any political capital they got from their coordinated resistance. According to the authors of "Millennial Makeover," who I interviewed about the current and future state of American politics, uberpartisanship doesn't fly with the group-focused, win-win solution-oriented, up-and-coming generation of young voters. 

But the GOP is still looking to use whatever means possible to diminish Obama's star power in the runup to the 2010 midterm elections -- even, if you take "Saturday Night Live" as your political guidebook, slamming Malia and Sasha's White House sleepovers as the scandal du jour.