The Whole Delivery

Thanks to Al Franken, Dick Cheney's thugs back down : The high-profile case of Jamie Leigh Jones, a Halliburton/KBR employee who claims she was raped by co-workers in a barracks in Iraq in 2005, won't be considered by the Supreme Court -- at least for now. Lawyers for KBR, who had sought to force her complaint into arbitration as called for by her employment contract rather than being resolved in federal court, withdrew the company's petition for high court review on March 11. KBR invoked the Court's Rule 46, which does not require any explanation for withdrawing a case if both sides consent. Parties often withdraw petitions before the Court acts if the case has been settled. But John Vail, lawyer for Jones, said today, "There is not a settlement," and he expects some of her claims to go to trial in federal court May 2011. Vail is vice president and senior litigation counsel at the Center for Constitutional Litigation in D.C. Instead, Vail said he believes...

First, everyone's most favorite moment of the day: May Jay Rockefeller proceed to tell Al Franken "to grow up" after this. I sure knew McCain did. And Lieberman may now demand that Al Franken not be able to vote on health care after that one. Second, and almost as good, was how Ms. Jane handled her good old pal and favorite snakeman, Lanny Davis. Oh was it lovely too. Now Davis tries to bring up Jane's past with that "blackface" thing in 06 for Lieberman, which was a mistake in the past that she has admitted to plenty of times. That's over. But Davis as always is a shill, a liar, and wouldn't admit how he was speaking for the drug companies. And boy, it was great to see Jane, and Ed, pin him on that. More to come everyone.

He's the one who needs to be in the circus Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) extended a nasty welcome to his newest Senate colleague, Al Franken, last week, telling the Tulsa World, “I’ll tell you what a lot of people are thinking, and that is it looks like things are going to be over and we are going to get the clown from Minnesota. … I don’t know the guy, but…for a living he is a clown.” Inhofe is now rushing to defend himself, pointing out that he and Franken “physically embraced” when they ran into each other on Tuesday. However, he still insists that Franken is a “clown”: But believe me, he knew. He kind of looked like a clown when I was talking to him,” Inhofe said. Thankfully, Franken had the perfect response back: “I don’t know how Sen. Inhofe regards clowns, but it might be an incredible compliment.” Lovely .

Your newest Senator And Republicans stupid video: As Keith Olbermann said tonight, Norm Coleman used the same video in his campaign against Franken, and lost. Only that party would do such a silly thing.

Thank you for C-SPAN indeed. Well, O'Lielly can you know what on this. I'll let you guess of course.

A jealous and bitter loser is who he is, I guess. I just can't give Al Franken a bigger high five if I could right now.

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy I heard Franken wasn't unbelievably funny on SNL, but who cares. He gave a perfect answer to how Meredith Vieria wanted to start something with that opening question.