Dorgan the Day After

Columnist Gail Collins considers the gloom and doom the media has written into the retirement of a North Dakota senator:

I’m beginning to suspect that he doesn’t expect to go back to North Dakota at all. I am basing this mainly on the fact that the “Notable North Dakotans” page on the Byron Dorgan Web site lists 19 people, none of whom seem to actually live there. In fact, seven of them are dead and one of the others is the guy who is married to the pop star Fergie.

It's hard to see what all the fuss is about over the Democrats' potential loss of their filibuster-proof 60 vote majority. It's not like they know how to do anything with it.