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While Minnesota’s drawn-out 2008 Senate election didn’t top MAD Magazine’s upcoming “MAD 20″ list of the “dumbest people, events and things” of 2009, the issue does promise a cure for “electile dysfunction” — in the form of a fake ad for “Democra-cialis,” showing Al Franken and Norm Coleman in side-by-side bathtubs.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is due back at work today following a mysterious several-day absence. For Minnesotans whose memories extend to the 1970s, news of an AWOL governor evokes the early days of Gov. Rudy Perpich’s first term in office — days Perpich spent out of the office, whereabouts (then) unknown.

The Huffington Post is reporting that the FBI conducted an interview with a person in Minnesota as part of an investigation of so-called “Suitgate” charges leveled against Norm Coleman last summer. HuffPo doesn’t name the person and the FBI won’t confirm or deny. 

John Edwards and Norm Coleman. Former U.S. senators? Check, and check. Current federal investigations? Check, and check (and check). Questionable billings of $100,000 or so? Check, and check. Issue of whether campaign funds went for personal expenses? Check, and check. Wife in headlines too? Check, and check.

It’s not all bad news for Norm Coleman. One reason Attorney General Eric Holder says he’s dropping charges against former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens is that Stevens is no longer a senator. Despite extraordinary legal efforts Coleman is also no longer a senator — but he is a player in two matters under federal investigation. That [...]

New Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele sees rosy prospects for a re-elected Norm Coleman in a statement the RNC released today. But Coleman’s past haunts him when it comes to money matters, says Politico in an extended rehash of the former U.S. senator’s finances that’s lightly spiced with sympathetic ruminations from former U.S. [...]

Without a new state law requiring a provisional election certificate in cases like Al Franken’s, Minnesota could be without its second U.S. senator for four to five months. That’s the opinion of Hamline University School of Law professor David Schultz, who advised state Rep. Phyllis Kahn on her bill that would seat Franken temporarily until former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman’s current election contest trial is resolved.

Norm Coleman has gotten a free pass. That’s the conclusion of The New Republic’s Jonathan Chait in dissecting the allegations made against the former senator in lawsuits filed in Delaware and Texas courts. The crux of the matter: Longtime Coleman pal Nasser Kazeminy is accused of attempting to funnel $75,000 to the politician through a [...]

“Senate’s ruling on Burris affects seating Franken,” said a Star Tribune headline today. Not so, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told The Politico.
“People have gotten the certificate thing messed up,” Reid said, referring to documents said to be essential to taking office under state laws. “State of Illinois is an appointment. State of Minnesota is [...]

“We are hoping and praying that they will not be able to deny what the Lord has ordained,” Roland Burris said before his fateful trip to Washington. Now that Democrats in the U.S. Senate appear ready to join God in backing Burris’s appointment by Illinois Gov. Rod “Nothing but Blue Sky” Blagojevich to join their ranks, [...]