The once cocky liar is not so cocky now. He is toast in a week. Illinois governor calls for Burris to resign & White House suggests as much.

From The Wall Street Journal:

A week after Republicans accused Sen. Roland Burris of lying under oath, President Barack Obama's spokesman delivered an ominous warning to him and Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn added to calls for his resignation.

There are growing signs that that Democrats in Washington were beginning to lose patience with Mr. Burris, in part because the furor is taking time, energy and focus from their ambitious agenda. But they have few ways to force his hand.

Earlier this week, Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin, the number two Democrat in the Senate and Mr. Burris' fellow Illinois senator, issued a sharply worded statement saying that "the accuracy and completeness of his testimony and affidavits have been called into serious question."

On Friday, Robert Gibbs, Mr. Obama's press secretary, urged Mr. Burris to take time this weekend to "certainly think of what lays in his future" and to "come up with an explanation that satisfies."

Mr. Burris [has] admitted on Monday night that he tried to raise money for Mr. Blagojevich while at the same time lobbying for the Senate appointment [after earlier denying as much under oath].

This week, the speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives turned over Mr. Burris's testimony to a state prosecutor who could bring perjury charges against him.

The only way to expel a senator is through a two-thirds vote of the full Senate, an extremely rare occurrence that would ordinarily only happen after a recommendation from the Senate Ethics Committee [of which Georgia's Sen. Johnny Isakson is a member].

No senator has been expelled since the Civil War, when 14 were evicted for supporting the South.