So two senate seats need to be filled – one each in Minnesota and Illinois.

Al Franken leads Norm Coleman after yesterday’s fina tally and senate republicans say they will filibuster should Franken seek to be seated. On the democratic side, the dems say they will block Burris from being seated from Illinois.

And the constitutional reasoning? It’s not there.

The wonderful thing about the U.S. is that if you don’t like some of the things the constitution permits, just wait until the next election because usually the will of the people will prevail to swing the pendulum the other way.