"Let My Children Sing!"

It is unfortunate America has to endure another Florida 2000 in 2008. After a strenuous and exhausting presidential campaign, Tony Trimble in true Republican fashion will file a lawsuit contesting Al Franken’s win in the Senate race in Minnesota. Both Illinois and Minnesota it seems will be club-footed in the convening of the United States 111th Congress. There is a history of Republican litigation concerning national campaigns, and the debacle of 2000 will not be remembered by Americans as a success. A Senate filibuster of Minnesota and Illinois will be met with the same animosity. Tawdry, collegiate, Ivey-league shenanigans could be accepted when the country was in the black. Fraternal judicial trial-lawering has become extinct with the totalitarian regime of Dick Cheney. The Democratic power base in Congress should be engorging on the eve of Barack Obama’s inauguration. Not only has the first African-American been elected president, democrats will hold the majority in Congress. Every last morsel of Republican is being savored until its self-created demise. Ted Stevens, Norm Coleman, and Harry Reid while from differing political parties, should with eloquence step aside in the presidential tradition of Al Gore. “Let my children sing!” in the immortal words of Charles Mingus.