re: #56 Obdicut

Except for this:

Republicans already prevented a recount in a special election, perhaps setting a precedent.

The bad news, however, for now-hopeful Republicans/Conservatives is that when the results of the Busby/Bilbray race were contested by a California voter, the Republican-leadership of the U.S. House Administration Committee sent a letter [PDF] to the CA judge in the case, arguing that neither CA voters nor the state courts had jurisdiction to contest the election any longer, once the candidate had already been sworn into the U.S. House.

You don’t really think politicians care about consistency in their arguments do you?