NOBODY LIKES A SORE LOSER. Captain Ed is not impressed with the efforts of a few Democrats from majority-minority districts to raise questions about voting procedures in Ohio.

What a waste of time and effort. Hand recounts and smearing Ohio's Secretary of State and Chief Justice of their Supreme Court isn't enough for the lunatics of the American Left. They want to hold Congress hostage for two hours in order to rant away at their abject failure to win an election in Ohio. Their excuse? Long lines and a lack of voting machines in predominantly Democratic counties -- where the officials in charge of the election were Democrats! Just as in Florida, the Democrats blame the GOP for what they consider poorly-run elections, when Democrats themselves ran them.

Boxer, Conyers, and Harry Reid will get their debate -- a two-hour marathon of smoke and bile which will change nothing, except their prestige and honor with the American electorate. They continue their Great March To The Fringe, now at double-time.

Brainpost suggests that two can play at that game.

I would hope that the Republicans would bring up the inconsistencies in Wisconsin, Philadelphia and other places and would consider instituting voter ID requirements for all states.

Why interfere with an adversary that is self-destructing? The Ohio margin, even with the disputed ballots, wasn't close enough to be reversed. To be sure, reversals in Ohio and in Wisconsin work out as a Bush victory, but if the guttersnipes are in the gutter, why get in with them?