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Meet the next Senator (finally) from Minnesota:

Will Norm Coleman ever give up? ...geez! ...

postscript: This article in the NY Times basically captures the surreal nature of this race which was concluded almost 6 months ago:

Mr. Franken and Mr. Coleman are caught in a political twilight, players in a race that will not end. A three-judge panel declared Mr. Franken the winner on Monday by 312 votes out of roughly 3 million cast, after a seven-week trial, but Mr. Coleman promptly announced that he would appeal to the state's highest court, raising the prospect that Minnesota will not get its second senator until the Congressional recess begins this summer.

And after the Minnesota Supreme Court certifies Franken the winner? Well, the Republican leadership in Washington is promising to go federal on this:

Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the head of the Republican Senate Campaign Committee, said Tuesday that Republicans were also prepared to take the battle into federal court if Mr. Coleman loses yet again.

Getting the Feds involved in this state issue is ridiculous and particularly partisan. Let the state Supreme Court decide the thing and then move on, for Pete's sake!

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