IF NORM COLEMAN THINKS EVERYTHING IS GOING SO WELL IN IRAQ, MAYBE HE CAN MOVE THERE AFTER AL FRANKEN DEFEATS HIM IN 2008

I haven't been able to talk DWT's best pal in Minnesota, Blue America heroine Coleen Rawley, into challenging her insane Republican congressman, John Kline (who just came back from Iraq babbling how eveything's comin' up roses) to a re-match. Nor have I given up. But Ken and I were so excited when Coleen sent us word of some grassroots action she was involved with on a non-Klinear level.

She wrote that she was so inspired by Ken's and Mike Stark's "brave stance in O'Reilly's driveway" that she and some of her friends decided to go visit Norm Coleman, their rubber stamp senator at his home. Remembering that Coleman and I were co-secretaries of our elementary school class in Brooklyn, Coleen knew I would want to see a picture of his St. Paul home and wonder why he's insisting that people in Minnesota aren't thinking about the occupation of Iraq. (We certainly know he doesn't want them too.)

Apparently his neighbors' yard signs ["Support the troops-- End the War"] weren't doing the trick in getting the message across to the Senator that Minnesotans are concerned about the terrible costs of the ongoing occupation of Iraq so we thought we'd communicate that message a little more clearly.