Manic Monday

Right, too much going on today --Norm Coleman's election contest of the Minnesota U.S. senate race result before a three-judge panel gets going today, and the Illinois State Senate takes up the matter of the impeachment of Gov. Rod Blagojevich that has landed in their chamber. Both proceedings commence at noon Central U.S. time.

I'll be monitoring the Minny action at The UpTake and urge anyone with even a casual interest in the subject to do the same --the folks at The 'Take do a tremendous job and are showing the way forward into the emerging medium of citizen journalism, what with their live streaming of video of the proceedings and always informative and entertaining discussion in their live blog.

Don't yet even know where I'm going to follow the Blago proceedings, but I'll keep y'all apprised. I'd imagine that today will be taken up with a lot of pageantry and that we won't be getting into the meat of it until Tuesday, but who knows.

Interesting post from Nate and resultant discussion over at FiveThirtyEight this morning on Russ Feingold's proposed Constitutional amendment to require quicky special elections to fill unexpired Senate terms --call it "The Roland Burris Amendment." Oy gefalt...