Right Side of the Rainbow

• If the state’s legislature fails to act, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney says he will ask the state’s highest court to force a public vote on a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

• Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, claiming that President Bush would have never invaded Iraq with a conscripted army, has renewed his call for a military draft. Presumptive House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says a draft is not on her agenda.

• According to the Associated Press, “Rep. Steny Hoyer acknowledged Sunday he was seeking assurances from incoming Speaker Nancy Pelosi that she would not retaliate against his supporters after he won the No. 2 House leadership post.”

• Two weeks after the election, four U.S. House races remain in dispute. Republicans lead in all four.

• President Bush says he has not yet made any decision about U.S. troop levels in Iraq.

• “When Democrats take over the Senate in January, the party’s bare two-vote majority will include three senators whose history shows they heed their own views more than those of any political leader,” USA Today reports.