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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't saying no to taking on Sen. Barbara Boxer for her U.S. Senate seat, according to a report in SFGate.com. Asked by a San Francisco Chronicle reporter at a recent Commonwealth Club of California appearance whether he ruled out a U.S. Senate run, the former action star said, “I have my hands full with all the stuff I’m doing now,” he said, referring to his ongoing budget crisis. “I’m concentrating on that and not what I’m going to do next. You know, I’m not a politician. I’m a public servant.” (See link for full article)

<p>The Enemy is now Within... and always has been.</p>

Sen. Al Franken? Don't laugh. The liberal liar who wrote "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them" is "intrigued" by the possibility of running against Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minnesota) in 2008. "I used to say I'd never run because I'd be a terrible officeholder. Now, I don't want to say that, because it would look bad if I ever did run," Franken notes. Coleman's response: "I have no comment. I don't do comedy." A former "Saturday Night Live" comedian as a senatorial candidate? Stranger things have happened (see Ventura, Jesse, and Springer, Jerry). "Republicans always say, 'How dare Susan...