Neither Franken nor Burris were sworn in today.

Burris was turned away because Harry Reid is taking a stand on principle, which he will shortly fold on, and Franken was not seated because the Republicans are using Reid’s brief flirtation with principle as a fig leaf for politics.

And I just heard on Countdown that the head of the Senate Rules Committee, Diane Feinstein,^* has said that in fact Burris’s paperwork is in order.

This is FUBAR.

^*Full disclosure, my great grandfather, Harry Goldman, and her grandfather, Sam Goldman were brothers.