What Do These Two Men Have In Common?

It's not just the FBI investigations. It's also that neither one has a single shred of respect for the democratic process. The latest: Norm Coleman is refusing to agree to counting all improperly rejected absentee ballots:

The campaigns of Sen. Norm Coleman and Al Franken disagree over the number of absentee ballots that were improperly rejected and should now be counted.

While Franken wants to count 1,346 ballots that county officials say were mistakenly rejected, Coleman for now is agreeing to count only 136 of them.

That's right: Coleman only wants to count one-tenth as many ballots as Franken, even though independent county election officials agree they are all legitimate ballots that ought to be counted.

Coleman says he may expand his total later today, but we've seen that kind of song and dance from Norm before.

This is why the Minnesota Supreme Court was stupid to require that both the Franken and Coleman campaigns agree on which improperly rejected absentee ballots should be counted and which shouldn't.

The bottom-line is that all the ballots should be counted. The fact that Norm Coleman disagrees puts him squarely in Blago's camp.