frankencolemanA decision in the Norm Coleman-Al Franken Senate dispute could come any day, any hour, any second — each one dutifully counted by court-watchers as it passes. But whenever a ruling arrives, it won’t be soon enough for some who are letting loose with cries of “overdue” and “constipated.”

Noting that “Coleman won’t say ‘uncle,’“ New Jersey’s Star Ledger editorial board can’t hold back:

… Republicans in Washington have urged Coleman to hang in there even if that brands him an obstructionist and/or sore loser — to take one for the team, in short. That’s understandable; it’s politics. What’s not is that the Minnesota court system could be this constipated.

A letter-writer in today’s Star Tribune wanted his second senator yesterday:

It is important who our senator is. But it is more important that we have a working senator. The Minnesota Supreme Court decision is overdue. It should be announced without further contemplation. Decide now, and certify within the hour.

News has been scarce since the Minnesota Supreme Court heard oral arguments June 1, leaving observers looking to the stars, noting the passing of the seasons, and counting the threads of the justices’ robes.

By Monday,  NBC’s Domenico Montanaro was counting everything but his toes [via MinnPost] :

MINNESOTA SENATE RACE – By the numbers
$51.1 million raised between Coleman and Franken for the entire campaign …
63% of a year since Election Day 2008 …
Al Franken for Senate first filed a “Statement of Organization” on Feb. 14, 2007 with the Federal Election Commission, making this whole fiasco 860 days or 2 years, 4 months, 9 days long or 20,640 hours.

Rumors of an impending ruling last Thursday swept the nation’s media like a wildfire before dying out for lack of oxygen.

Readers at MNPublius have been batting around a new rumor, started by one of their own, about a Coleman staffer’s “pre-concession BBQ” that blogger Zach Stephenson took as “a sign that the end is near”:

I flew back to MN from DC today and, as we’re taxiing into the gate at MSP, there’s an obnoxious younger guy talking loudly on his cell phone. In the course of his convo, he identifies himself as a former Coleman staffer and mentions that he’s in town for a “pre-concession bbq” that a bunch of former/current staffers are having…