How apt

My, my, my, it's Barry planting a tree at the White House in order to appease his liberal hippie base. Is that how desperate he is for positive attention these days, what with health care getting Liebermanned, not really doing a whole lot on Gitmo and all those "War on Terror" policies that Bush started, and gearing up to escalate the war in Afghanistan? We've already hit "cheap photo-op" time in October? What other possible reason...

The President will plant a Linden tree on the White House North Lawn.

Benjamin Harrison first planted a Scarlet Oak in 1889 in the same spot, but the tree, quite old and rotten inside, was split in half and downed in a 2007 rain storm. Former President George Bush replaced the tree with another Scarlet Oak in the same spot – but the White House says "it didn't take well” last year – so a new tree needed to be planted.

President Bush couldn't even plant a tree right? My, what an apt metaphor for his administration's terrible environmental record: he can't even do a rote photo-op with a tree without killing it dead. In honor of Dubya, his dead tree will be pulped and made into paper upon which a secret torture policy will be written along with notes from a meeting with oil executives. It will then be shredded in a ceremony involving a Dick Cheney impersonator.

See the thing about Bu...wait, did they say Linden tree? Obama planted a Linden tree? Dear God, I never thought I'd have an excuse to post this:



Now that's what the entire White House grounds are going to smell like.

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?

Broken In Brief: McCain plays do over card

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