Klobuchar: Seat Franken Now, Argue About it Later

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D, Minn) has a Solomonic proposal for settling the Franken/Coleman senate contest: Give it to Al. I like the way she thinks. From HuffPo:

"If the Canvassing Board declares a winner, that should be our senator," said the Minnesota Democrat. Even if a court challenge were to follow, she added, "[The Senate] could seat a senator pending the litigation."

...The Minnesota canvassing board is set to certify the vote total from the election sometime in early January (a date is not yet official). As it stands know, Franken should emerge ahead in the count by a scant 47 votes. Sen. Norm Coleman would then have seven days to challenge the board's conclusion, a course of action his campaign has said it will almost certainly pursue.

Sure, you could try to say that Klobuchar wouldn't favor this idea if Coleman were in the lead. My response to that would be, "Yeah, but he isn't."

At first glance, this doesn't seem to benefit Republicans. Seating Franken gives the Democrats a 59th seatmaking it awfully tough for the GOP to oppose Democratic legislation. On the plus side, however, Franken could give the Republicans some much needed lessons on satire.

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