Fmr. Sen. Coleman’s lawyer appears to be laying the groundwork for arguing that Al Franken’s margin of victory is smaller than the inherent margin of error in the election contest itself. Ergo, the margin’s so close they need to scrap Al’s win and hold a completely new election.

Some problems staffing out Treasury?

More seriously, it’s not so much who’s confirmed: Geithner just got confirmed himself. But my sense is that Treasury’s significantly behind other departments in having top appointees nominated.

The upshot of this weekend’s provincial elections in Iraq is that support swung toward parties of secular nationalism, who support centralized power, at the expense of sectarian and/or more regionally minded parties favoring a weak central government. Juan Cole has a good run-down of the particulars.

So what is Tom Daschle accused of doing? We break down the individual items here.

Is someone in the Senate trying to sneak funding for the “clean-coal,” “near zero emissions” FutureGen project in Illinois into the stimulus package?