Specter's not helping his cause....

With answers like this:

NYT Q: With your departure from the Republican Party, there are no more Jewish Republicans in the Senate. Do you care about that?

Arelen Spector: I sure do. There’s still time for the Minnesota courts to do justice and declare Norm Coleman the winner.

Read Jon's post below about why Specter hasn't yet been embraced by all members of the Democratic Party.

And Arlen can't be real happy about the fact that Senate Dems just stripped him of his seniority on Senate Committees.

And he's now backing away from his support for Norm Coleman (I'm getting dizzy here). In Congressional Quarterly today:

But questioned outside the Senate chamber Tuesday, Specter said the comment was a mistake.

“In the swirl of moving from one caucus to another, I have to get used to my new teammates,” he said. “I’m ordinarily pretty correct in what I say. I’ve made a career of being precise. I conclusively misspoke.”

Asked who he’s backing now in elections, Specter said, “I’m looking for more Democratic members. Nothing personal.”

Franken vs. Coleman still going....

While the outlook is generally seen as positive for Franken at this point, it looks like there are still another couple weeks of court hearings to go in this Senate race. How long has this thing been going on for? I seem to recall Harry Truman on the campaign trail for Franken at one point, but I could be remembering wrong.

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&docID=news-000003064213

Craziest US Senator

Tom Coburn has his moments, but Jim Bunning is the craziest person in the US Senate. In addition to be known as one of the worst/laziest Senators, Bunning has just plain gone off the deep end. He's now threatening to sue his own party if someone runs against him in the primary. Even Norm Coleman had the decency to wait till after the election to start suing people. But good old Jimbo has decided he'll sue early and often.

From AP: In his call, Bunning said that if the National Republican Senatorial Committee backed a Republican challenger in the primary, he would have grounds for a lawsuit.
"In the bylaws of the NRSC, support of incumbents is the only reason for their existence. If they recruited someone and supported them in a primary against me I would be able to sue them because they're not following their bylaws," Bunning said.

Won't this election just die already?

Seems like Stormin Norman is still hanging on by a thread. It remains very likely that we will soon see Senator Stuart Smalley (Al Franken), Norm Coleman has refused to give up. This latest legal ruling is the best piece of news that he has had in a while.