This changes nothing

You hear that sound earlier emanating from Minnesota? It was God laughing. No, not over Michelle Bachmann thinking that public service and socialist re-education camps are exactly the same thing, but over the latest development in Minnesota's endless Senate race.

Democrat Al Franken's lead in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race widened Tuesday to 312 votes after previously rejected absentee ballots were added to the counting.

Franken did better than Republican Norm Coleman by a nearly 2-to-1 margin as the ballots were opened and counted as part of a lawsuit brought by Coleman over the statewide recount. A three-judge panel ruled earlier that 351 ballots had been improperly rejected during the election and should be restored.

Franken led by 225 votes going into Tuesday's count of those ballots.

I'm sure this is all a wonderful precursor to several more lawsuits that will change nothing. That's the beauty of our judicial system: you can gum up the works with lawsuits no matter how meritless they are. Someone from the Minnesota Supreme Court want to step in? No? One Senator is all right with you? Fine.