"If [Norm] Coleman looks desperate, why not just hold another election and beat him handily?" -Why not have a do-over? Um, because in America when one guy wins the election and the other guy is a sore loser, you don't hold a revote. I particularly like the way Murray put the onus on Franken, as though he's the bad guy for not being willing to win twice (sounds a lot like the old "why are you asking for a search warrant if you have nothing to hide?" argument - or updated for the 2000s, "why are you afraid of illegal government eavesdropping if you're not a terrorist?")
Washington Post reporter Shailagh Murray, on Republican Norm Coleman's ongoing, never-ending legal challenge to Democrat Al Franken's victory last November in the US Senate race in Minnesota
In fact, being a sore loser has nothing to do with it. The Republicans are perfectly happily denying the Democrats this seat, and this vote, forever. They know the Democrats won. So, rather than put the Dems one step closer to a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority, the Republicans are suing in an effort to take away one guaranteed Democratic vote in the US Senate. It's beyond un-Democratic. And it's dangerous as hell when America is going through the economic equivalent of another 9/11.
But Republicans never did much care about America. Oh, they care about the flag, fetuses, and f... gay marriage. But when it comes to the economy, to anyone beyond the age of birth, or our soldiers fighting in two Republican wars (both a mess), Republicans bore awfully quickly. And they've clearly grown weary of trying to actually save our economy. So they're focusing instead on winning back the Congress and the White House - to hell with America in the mean time.
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