Story Of The Day: Go Away, Already!

Yesterday (Tuesday, April 7) marked the day the three-judge panel in the Minnesota Senate election dispute between Al Franken and Norm Coleman (pictured above, trying to channel something) would finish counting the ballots they deemed disputable. Before this, and after the first recount, Franken held a 225 vote lead. Coleman had been fighting and fighting to include these ballots. So what happened?

Now Franken has a 312 vote lead.

Now of course Coleman isn't giving in, and his lawyers have already promised to take this to the Minnesota Supreme Court. Of course not to count all the ballots, just the ones they want to. Dicktard. It's gotten to the point where uber-conservative Ramesh Ponnuru simply blogs "I think it's time for him to give up the fight."

But of course, it's not about what's right. Like most Republican politicians these days, its all about the "game" of politics, where governing doesn't matter, only getting elected. To play a spite game to keep one more Democratic Senator from being in Congress, if it means Minnesota being denied any second senator.

"Top Republicans are encouraging Coleman to be as litigious as possible and take his fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if he loses this round, believing that an elongated court fight is worth it if they can continue to deny Democrats the 59th Senate seat that Franken would represent..."

What spineless weasels. Tim Pawlenty is the pussiest of them, and it would give me great glee for the Minnesota Supreme Court to hold him in contempt for refusing to sign the papers to seat Franken, and send that squirrel to jail for some good old Governor-style buttsex.