Howard the Donkey Wants Another Florida Mess

You'd think Howard the Donkey could muster at least a little bit of grace following the Dem wins in November, but I guess not:

WASHINGTON - Republican Vern Buchanan might be the official winner in a messy Sarasota-area congressional race, but Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean says the Democratic-controlled Congress should not seat Buchanan without another election.

"Absolutely not," Dean said in a taped Political Connections interview scheduled to air Sunday on Bay News 9. "You cannot seat someone if you don't have an election that's valid.

"This election is not valid. There are 18,000 people who may have voted, and we don't know what happened to their votes," Dean said. "You can bet that if the Republicans were 500 votes short they'd be calling for a new election, and they'd be right."

On Wednesday, Democrat Christine Jennings said she will ask the U.S. House to take the extreme measure of conducting its own investigation into the election.

Though Jennings has filed a lawsuit asking for a revote, a little-known provision in the U.S. Constitution gives the House the final decision on who sits in its chamber.

I'm sure if you looked hard at every election in the country you'd find some sore of irregularity. At this point would it be better for Congress to allow the Florida result to stand, or go into a partisan war over one seat that won't make any difference in the balance of power?

I always expect the Dems to do the dumb thing, so look for a fight.