WaPo:
As 111th Senate Is Set to Begin, Four Seats Still Up in AirOf course, as I said, the Franken/Coleman race is UNENDING, and talking about it at all feels like I'm reporting that Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead. (Get it? Saturday Night Live? Al Franken? Huh? Huh?) But I guess the small bit of news is that there's some push to seat Franken, who's currently up by some 4-dozen votes, until the count is finished...
...and fuck everyone even suggesting such a thing for forcing me to agree with the Republicans. If the shoe were on the other foot and it was Coleman up by a statistically nonexistent margin with a couple of thousand ballots still up in the air, I wouldn't want his ass seated; the fact that I personally happen to like Franken a lot better doesn't mean it's okay to seat him under those circumstances.
When people gripe about partisanship, I usually roll my eyes, because it's often an excuse for shit like Joe Lieberman...you know, I was going to find some way to finish that sentence, but I think leaving it at "shit like Joe Lieberman" is perfectly valid. But this is exactly what's wrong with partisanship -- the "it's okay when MY party does it" double-standard. If the shoe were on the other foot, this exact same scenario would be playing out exactly the same way, just with the players reversed -- and fuck that shit.
I guess the difference is that, in the end, I don't think the Dems will push this issue (Reid's too busy grandstanding on Burris), whereas if it were a Republican majority Senate and a Republican candidate up a few dozen votes in a close race, they'd actually push it through (and the Dems wouldn't do shit to stop it, and would cry about how they WOULD have if only they had a few more seats, so remember to vote Democratic in two years!).