Since I have family in Minnesota and since the outcome of the senate race there has a potentially big impact on the balance of power in the US Senate, I’ve been following the recount between incumbent Republican Senator Norm Coleman and challenger Democrat (or, more accurately, DFLer) Al Franken.
Reading the Minneapolis Star-Tribune online today, I saw this comment:
This whole debacle is an embarrassment to this State. Would someone please be a man and bow out???
I laughed out loud.
Yes, it’s been nearly a month since the election, and yes, the recount won’t be final until the middle of this month. So what?
Great, I say. Let the wheels of justice turn. Let the votes be counted. It’s not like these guys actually WORK in the month of December, right? Heck, the Senate doesn’t even begin another session until after the new president is sworn in anyway. What’s the hurry?
It’s startling to me that someone, in their discomfort of this critically important process and their impatience for a resolution, ANY resolution, would call for casting votes aside. What would really be embarrassing to the state of Minnesota would be a sudden stop to this process or one candidate or group bullying the other to call an end to the recount. How could he anyway? The recount is mandated by LAW!
But I digress…..
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