The Minnesota Senate election recount is winding its way down, with just a few hundred unopened absentee ballots left to be opened and counted. Then we can move on to the never-ending legal appeals phase, with Coleman being urged to fight on by the likes of chinless closet queen (he may be in the closet, but the closet door is pretty wide open) Mitch McConnell and Krazy Jon Kyle (note to Kyl: real Americans spell John with an “h”).

I just don’t understand how people can claim Republicans are rigid and incapable of evolving.

For instance, McConnell, who now says “the court’s decision in Minnesota…leaves no other choice but to continue the process to ensure that every legal vote is counted,” sung a different tune back in 2000, when, just three weeks into the Florida recount process, he implored Al Gore to

be a “statesman” and “give it up.” “Enough is enough,” McConnell said. “Where do the interests of the country begin and the interests of the campaign end?”

Indeed.

Kyl, of course, threatened Senate Democrats (on the floor of the Senate, no less) if they attempted to seat Franken before Coleman managed to exhaust all legal maneuvers (no matter how frivolous, apparently).

“Clearly there’s something wrong here and it has to be resolved by court,” Kyl said. “There are no stipulations for when proceedings must be completed.”

Back in 2000? Kyl was concerned for Al Gore’s reputation, should he “back in to the Presidency.”

Then, of course, there’s Coleman himself. When he led on election night, he offered Al Franken some advice:

“If you asked me what I would do, I would step back,” Coleman said of a recount, the night of the election, when he was ahead. “I just think the healing process is so important.”

If you’re a working person an anti-union scumbag corporation, you have a friend in Arkansas. “Democratic” Senator Blanche Lincoln has declared that she will not support the Employee Free Choice Act.

“I cannot support that bill,” Lincoln said, according to Arkansas Business. “Cannot support that bill in its current form. Cannot support and will not support moving it forward in its current form.

I guess Wal-Mart has a lot more pull in Arkansas than working stiffs do. No surprise there, I guess.

Around these parts, the big news is the letter that the Binghamton shooter (not gonna give him any post-mortem props by using his name) sent to a local news station. They’re sending the packet off to Quantico to work up a profile on the guy or something. Let me guess, he was fucking nuts? Beyond that, the only thing it really tells me is that he was a Time-Warner cable subscriber (since that channel is a TW only cable news station), and possibly a Va-Tech mass murderer fanboy.

Over 50 people killed in mass shooting in the past month? Makes you wonder how many other ticking bombs there are out there (perhaps right there in your classroom, office, or over-priced coffee shop). I’m just glad I live in a country where everyone – no matter how insane – has the right to own as many guns as they can afford.

“And you have a nice day.”