Here we travel to Minnesota:
Republican Jim Bendtsen, 54, a computer systems engineer from Ramsey, says he's willing to forgo a senator if it means slowing President Obama's agenda. "I'm in favor of keeping Franken out of office as long as possible," he says. "The more votes Obama has at the federal level, the more damage I think he's going to do to America."
In other words, who gives a flying damn that Franken won the election? Why should elections decide who serves in the United States Senate?
Why should the Constitutional requirement that the state (like every other state) enjoy two U.S. Senators actually be fulfilled? I mean, it's only going to help the Democrats!
We've known for some time that Coleman's endless stalling and endless series of legal challenges to an election he lost has been aimed more at obstructing the seating of Franken than actually seating Coleman (who has no hope of winning). Coleman's lawyer says as much:
The votes to be counted Tuesday in open court will come from a pool of 400 absentee ballots, just a fraction of the number Coleman wanted considered. That makes it almost certain that Coleman won't take the lead Tuesday, and his lawyer Ben Ginsberg has said he will appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court.
"There is a certain point where you step away, but we are not close to that point yet," Ginsberg says.
And the sad thing is, it's working. Regular people like Jim Bendtsen have actually abandoned any democratic principles they ever espoused, in favor of the craven politicking Team Coleman has long since embraced.
There is no better example of classic GOP philosophy than this. Elections are irrelevant; democracy is irrelevant. If you can't win, it's your civic duty to do everything you can to obstruct the guys who did win and prevent them from taking office.
It's a philosophy fostered at all levels, from conservative voices in the media, to the most prominent elected figures in Republican leadership.
Americans should have more sense than to elect a crew like this, one which has shown nothing but the utmost contempt for the democratic principles upon which our nation was founded, ever again.