It looks very much as if Hillary's going to be offered Secretary of State, which would leave a bit of a hole in the New York delegation. A reliable beltway conventional wisdom source says there's a frontrunner to fill it. Problem.

The newly elected Congressman stands above politics; watch him closely. He's your "guy on the inside".

The far right is all a twitter that the "Ineligiblity Clause" prevents Hillary from being named Secretary of State. They base their reading on the phrase "shall have been," and demand the constitution be read like a shrink wrap agreement. However, if one is going to read the Constitution this way, all she needs to do is resign first.

Last Friday morning, I reported that the state canvassing board had avoided making a ruling that would commit them to reviewing the thousands of rejected absentee ballots in the November 4 election. This action is cowardly in the extreme, being done largely because the board members are afraid of being mobbed by mindless hordes of local right-wing radio listeners.

Who's really stronger, the coyote or the domesticated dog?

Saxby Chambliss went on "Fox News Sunday" and again tried to spin his mind-numbing comment from last July, when he said he infamously said, "We may not be in a recession. I don't know what that term means." Chambliss has tried repeatedly to bury the turd by claiming he was just quoting Alan Greenspan. But Wallace apparently did his homework and pounced.

Tired of stereotypes and wondering about the so-called political divisions in her country, San Francisco radio host Rose Aguilar packed up a van, grabbed her boyfriend and headed east into the heartland of the United States. Her book about the journey, Red Highways, deconstructs the aforementioned myths that are so often reinforced by the corporate media, by revealing the political complexities within “red states.”

I just wanted to say Thank You to all the progressive men and women who sacrificed so much to take on the burden of running for public office this year. It amazes me that anyone sane does this. So this Sam and Dave video has nothing to do with anyone winning or losing, just doing something about what the rest of us mostly sit around and complain about.

Live interview with Congressman-Elect Tom Perriello of Virginia's 5th District

Take a look at this handy chart compiled by Twin Cities blogger Jeff Rosenberg. It shows the ratio of challenges to ballots counted. Notice that for most of the first three days of the recount, the ratios for each campaign stayed between three and five challenged ballots per every ten thousand ballots cast. Those three days were the period where Coleman's officially-announced lead over Franken was shrinking. They were also in the period just before the Coleman campaign went on a frivolous-challenge jag in order to artificially (and temporarily) goose the official recount numbers in their favor, and the Franken campaign felt compelled to play tit-for-tat just to make sure the publicly-announced faked-up Coleman "lead" didn't get too high.