to the US Senate. They chose to elect Al Franken.

I have freedom of speech and I choose to call the people of Minnesota a bunch of fools who will, sooner rather than later, regret having put this buffoon into office.

that they’re such a clean state when it comes to politics.

Part of the responsibility of living in a democracy: voting for responsible people.

Minnesotans replaced Norm Coleman, the man who led the Senate’s investigations of Hussein’s abuse of the Oil-For-Food program, with Stuart Smalley.

What…does Minnesota think this is funny?

n/t

and then you tell them, see I told you so.

I am with you Dave, just another depressing day for anyone who thought this country had a bright future. Today, it is pretty much over, not much can be done to stop this. Yes, I have gone fatalist. Not much of a force left to stand up to these guys now in the confines of legal, other than pray to God that Americans wake up, and that someone has the guts to overturn this garbage that is coming. And if God is playing a joke on us, please stop it, it is not funny anymore.

Now it is a wait and see, and hope that my wife and I will be spared the onslaught, but hey there is always Texas.

but to claim this election was stolen really flies in the face of whole lot of evidence. I actually watched a good chuck of it and read most of the decisions as I found the entire process both amusing and enlightening. Fact is, Minnesota has some of the best election laws in the country and they really did count all the votes.

Coleman’s team had plenty of opportunity to examine every vote and introduce evidence at both the election commission and the special election court. He simply failed to find enough votes to exceed the votes Franken had.

We might not like the results, but don’t blame the process, blame the voters.

I’m with DTOM on this one, perhaps even more so a fatalist.
The Nation should mark this date, 30 June 2009.
The day the experiment just plain died.
House passes bills that no one reads,
Senate has a filibuster proof, far left majority,
White House is occupied by someone who sides with Castro.
Tell me again this makes any sense at all.

…and threatened if he wanted to rock the boat further.

This just goes to show the importance of down-state races like Secretary of State. The Democrats have learned the power of putting partisans in such positions, like Ohio too - especially since they won’t be exposed to publicity like Harris was in Florida.

What IS IT with these GOP’ers who fold their tents? We sit out here screaming for them to stay in the fight! THEY are in the right, and they tuck tail and go home.

I recall being so mad at John Ashcroft for conceding after the 2000 election. He hoped that the election would be a comfort to Mel Carnahan’s widow. Never mind that the St. Louis polls stayed open illegally for hours.

Now Coleman says he won’t move on to the federal court system. Come on, Norm! Grow a spine!

What gets me is that the LIBtards have no problem with stringing out the process until they get the result they want (Al Gore: unsuccessful; Stu Smalley: successful).

Note to future Conservative candidates: STAY IN THE FREAKIN’ FIGHT UNTIL the last dog dies! I don’t care what the headlines read! Consult the Constitution if you are bereft of reading material. . . and then, FOLLOW IT.

We’ll stay by your side, if that’s what you’re worried about. Go for their jugular (like they go for ours) and WIN, for a change.

Stop Funding ACORN to register dead people to vote.

overturn the 17th Amendment, then we would only have to count the legislatures votes. Awfully hard to come up with votes from people that do not exist and plus protects the state from populist morons like Al.

Maybe we can just install mind reading chips in everyone’s forearms, and let Barack tell us who won what when he waves his wand, huh? I am sure that seems fair, and quick to boot.

If you had any interest in fairness you would be decrying this travesty with your buddies on Kos. And to be honest, I don’t believe having ANY elected representatives from the idiots in MN is a pressing concern.

vajayjay

Anything like a dj?

I used to have faith in the American people to elect responsible grown-ups with credentials. Then came Obama and a good deal of that faith went straight out the window.

Then I had a realization. The Germans weren’t stupid nor bewitched when they elected Hitler. They were just plain fooled. It goes to show that we must never rest on our laurels and assume it can’t happen here. Soloman’s words ring just as true today as they did when he wrote them, “There is nothing new under the sun.” Vigilence!

It all started when I noticed the similarities between Stuco and C-Span.

….the face of the Democrat Party, he’s more than able to do that all on his own. And IMHO none of the other 300 or so members of said Democratic Party are going to like it, in fact I’d go as far and say that this pritty much ensures a Republican comeback in 2010.

With ACORN and like minded groups, and “statistical adjustments” we are going to see some convenient population spikes in urban and other Democratic machine-dominated areas to prepare the way for false registration - not to mention skewing the allocation of House seats to Blue states.

Don’t know if we’ll also have deliberate undercounting in Red areas - or just “statistical adjustments”.

Come 2012, we’ll be facing a whole new ballgame - if they haven’t cancelled the rest of the season by then.

He’ll do it all by himself.

Franken will melt down within a day and a half of being made fun of by Limbaugh.

…and are excused to break with the caucus to provide critical votes for the Democrats.

Democratic senators have to vote the party line - when needed - or they will lose their privileges. The more “bipartisan” Republicans go along, the easier to release the marginal Democrats to cast a meaningless vote in opposition.

Senate Republicans are about to discover what happened to the ancien regime when the Jacobins came to power and changed the club rules.

If they want to get to 60 on their own, they’ll have to pull Teddy Kennedy and Robert Byrd off their deathbeds to go vote.

Coleman and Franken must agree to the duel or NEITHER of them will be seated.

The State of Minnesota deserves much better than what it has received. Both parties do. If their candidates won’t stand up and fight for what they want so badly at taxpayer’s expense, then both of them lose.

Don’t blame yourself.

You owe all of us some beverages, and in a quantity that we will soon be feeling no pain. Or at least not as much as we’re feeling at the moment.

My only consolation is that Franken will be as unsuccessful at being a senator as he has been at being a comedian. Although my guess is that he’ll be funnier as a senator than he ever was in his prior profession.

The new face of the Democratic Party!!!

What that means is that the Republicans cannot block a fillibuster by remaining united - they need at least one or more Democrats to not vote for cloture - or for them to be absent. Right now Kennedy and Byrd are absent, but if the vote were important enought, they’d probably wheel them in, as they did with the Stimulus bill.

needs to go away. I do not know how, but I believe he is an enemy of the United States of America. He has done everything he could to take out the United States or control it through his money.

I wish I knew that he was just trying to make a buck, but I think he has bigger aspirations than just money.

Soros took out the Senator who did more than anybody (besides Claudia Rosett) to expose Oil For Food.

Doesn’t the MSM know that? Don’t they care?

Perhaps they’re scared of Soros. Or, they’re so totally committed to the Democratic Party that they don’t care.

on election day. No potential for fraud there at all.

Nothing to see here folks, just move along.

I just wrote a diary about the Vermont Sect of State race in 2010. Stop by and share your thoughts here

His victory was stolen from him in broad daylight and he did nothing while it was happening. Like a typical “moderate” he just stood by and made “Bipartisan” noises until Mark Ritchie and Franken’s lawyers were able to snatch victory for Franken from the jaws of defeat.

That neither the NRSC, MNGOP, nor his own campaign could find the fighting spirit within themselves to kick up a fuss and inundate Minnesota’s airwaves with attacks on the thieving Ritchie and his so-called “Bipartisan” canvassing board is beyond shameful.

Republicans need to get over this fear of Press criticism and “controversy”. We need to stop patting ourselves on the back for being “better than them” - it is stupid to bring just a knife to a knife fight when you know your opponent is bringing an Uzi.