DO OVER!!!!!

The recount in Minnesota goes ever on. If I recall it has lasted longer than the Civil War and the Hundred Years War put together. Guess what? It's still going to go on forever, because God has removed Minnesota from His sight. You see Norm Coleman has recognized that there is one critical flaw in this whole recount process: he lost and by any other count he will still lose. So to remedy this situation he has suggested the adult thing to do is a do-over, or he's gonna start doing some serious breath holding and foot stomping.

For more than a month, Norm Coleman stressed flaws in Minnesota's election system.

And on Monday, Coleman lawyer Jim Langdon wrote the three-judge panel to suggest the problems are so serious they may not be able to declare a winner.

"Some courts have held that when the number of illegal votes exceeds the margin between the candidates -- and it cannot be determined for which candidate those illegal votes were cast -- the most appropriate remedy is to set aside the election," Langdon wrote in a letter to the court.

His concern is touching. I even bet that if he was winning right now he'd admit the need for a do-over because he wouldn't be able to take the seat under such circumstances. He's just that honest.

However stupid old Minnesota law is standing in the way of Norm's solution. See apparently Franken was certified as the winner and there this whole burden of proof thing for Coleman to prove he got more votes. Also, Minnesota doesn't have any provision for do-over elections, even if the guy who lost really really wants one. Minnesota is still stuck on this whole 'most votes wins' malarkey. How backwards. Too bad for Norm the state founders and the lousy laws they wrote didn't realize his inalienable right to keep that seat or stall indefinitely to keep a Democrat out of it. Our loss really. And Minnesota's. Though if this works can we get it retroactively applied to the 2000 election?