It has everyone talking, including the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party, which sent out a letter to its folks calling out all the problems with this scenario. In short, it’s having a field day.

See the National Journal story here. Best line? Coleman says of the guy who hooked up this fabo deal: “He’s the most connected person in D.C. that nobody in Minnesota knows.”

And here’s a picture of what seems to be a fabulous CapHill townhouse as linked to by the letter which asks: “If Norm Coleman can get away with it, shouldn’t you too?”

More: “Coleman rents what a real-estate agent describes as a “huge English basement” with an “airy bedroom” in a “simply divine” million-dollar townhome on Capitol Hill — and he gets it all for a mere $600 a month. Never mind that market-value rents in the same neighborhood for similar spaces go for double that or more — and never mind that getting a discount that big is a violation of Senate ethics rules.

“But it gets worse. For four of the 11 months that Norm Coleman has lived there so far, he didn’t actually pay the rent, paid it late, had it held back for months, or — most bizarrely of all — paid it in used furniture.

“That’s right: once, instead of paying his landlord money, Coleman paid him with an old couch, desk, table, and chairs. And even luckier for Coleman, once Coleman “sold” the furniture, the landlord left it with Coleman to keep using — as if he had never “sold” it at all.”

Anyway we hear that a basement on the same street in a similar house goes for $1,600 and a room in a house goes for $800.

Our questions: What joke is Al Franken dreaming up to respond to this with? And, does Coleman have his wife’s hair dryer - The Blo and Go! - in the basement? Speaking of the Blo and Go - Shenanigans actually owns one - long story - any takers?
What will one do for their very own Blo and Go?