Norm Coleman: über-tool

When is national news relevant to Minnesota politics? When it's a Minnesota politician acting like an idiot. Even if it was several months ago.

Via Talking Points Memo, we see Senator Norm Coleman's take on the whole Valerie Plame issue:

My Democratic friends would be doing the nation a great service if they spent half as much time getting legislation passed that will benefit the country as they do in attacking Karl Rove. When you're out of ideas and lack vision, you are left with nothing but personal attacks and negativity. We have enough to do in the Senate in minding our own business than to be sticking our noses into someone else's business. Everyone needs to cool the rhetoric, focus on the business of the people, and allow the investigation to run its course.

Yes, it is none of the Senate's business to poke their nose into an incident where a high ranking member of the President's administration blew the cover of a secret CIA operative for political payback. Just to make this perfectly clear: it is now almost certain that Karl Rove, in an attempt to score political points, outed a covert CIA agent, putting not only the agent at risk, but all of her contacts, her assets, and the country at large. The CIA. The organization that is supposed to be protecting us from future terrorist attacks.

If Norm doesn't care to fulfill the role of a senator and defend this country, there are plenty of good people who would.