Reply #32: If somebody had called me up and asked

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me to be the lone arbiter in the Franken-Coleman race, Al would have been seated before Santa packed his sleigh.

Turns out, though, the phone didn't ring.

It appears to me that Franken has the most votes, and that the process for challenge to the outcome is just about wrapped up. Maybe next week we get the ruling. I'm hoping and thinking it will favor Franken and serve to give Coleman the boot. It would make official what Minnesota voters, albeit by a narrow margin, decided last November.

It could be that Ed said what he said to cattle-prod Democrats in the 111th Congress to be more fierce in asserting a more people-directed agenda and to establish a line in the sand for the various GOP nutbags in both chambers.