A real clown takes a Senate seat
It’s all but official: A professional Democrat clown will join all the amateur ones already in the Senate.
Al Franken is going to Washington:
Democrat Al Franken will be declared the winner of the tight U.S. Senate contest in Minnesota, emerging from a ballot recount with a slim margin over Republican Norm Coleman, state officials said on Sunday.
But Coleman, the incumbent, has asked Minnesota’s supreme court to require that a few hundred additional absentee ballots be included in the recount — and he could then ask the court to investigate the contest all over again.
“At the moment, Franken has a 225-vote lead,” after the weekend counting of what were deemed the last uncounted absentee ballots, said Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, a Democrat who oversaw the process.
Ritchie said unless the supreme court acts on Coleman’s request and orders more ballots to be counted, he will reconvene the state’s Canvassing Board on Monday to certify Franken as the winner of the November 4 contest.
Coleman’s campaign intends to do just that, but Minnesotan Ed Morrissey at Hot Air notes:
His best bet may be the inconsistencies in challenge resolutions and the lack of a statewide, uniform standard in addressing the absentee ballots. Even that may not help much at this point, though. According to Coleman’s team, up to 1,000 absentee ballots should have been included instead of excluded, but gaining 225 votes out of 1,000 ballots will be a tall order — although not impossible, as Franken gained 200 out of the 935 absentee ballots they did count. Ballot challenge inconsistencies will have less of a chance, as those are inherently subjective and the court will give the Canvassing Board the widest possible latitude.
In the end, a dead heat winds up getting decided by the incompetence of individual voters who under any other circumstances would not matter at all. That’s what we had here.
May Minnesotans get what they deserve.
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WSJ spotlights the funny business in Minnesota:
Minnesotans like to think that their state isn’t like New Jersey or Louisiana, and typically it isn’t. But we can’t recall a similar recount involving optical scanning machines that has changed so many votes, and in which nearly every crucial decision worked to the advantage of the same candidate. The Coleman campaign clearly misjudged the politics here, and the apparent willingness of a partisan like Mr. Ritchie to help his preferred candidate, Mr. Franken. If the Canvassing Board certifies Mr. Franken as the winner based on the current count, it will be anointing a tainted and undeserving Senator.
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This is an awful thing to happen to a great state. Whether the election was fixed or legit – Minnesota, you are better than this.
Well, now Harry’s court is complete . . . he has his court jester.
Minnesota deserves no less than the worst and they got it with Franken. He’s a crook. He’s a joke. He is everything Minnesota values.
Send in the clowns. Minnesota can’t do any better than that?
yes, but to bad it effects us all. unreal. this horses ass has no business being in the Senate.
Obviously the fix was in on this “recount” from the beginning. No surprise here at all… However, I do have to ask the people of Minnesota a question:
“What in the name of God is seriously the hell wrong with you people????”
How could you even let it get to a recount??
“Frankly,” you deserve whatever you get.
BTW, my 7-day vacation I had planned to the Boundary Waters area in May? CANCELLED! I will not spend money in a Franken represented state. You’re on your own…
Minnesotans must be sniffing too much glue or suffering from brain freeze. First a wrestler then a comedian. Is that the best they can come up with? Do they really want commedians to represent them?
Minnesota, you are now the national joke. Florida thanks you.
What is even more bizarre is the “winner” only got @42% of the vote. You would think in that circumstance a top two run-off election would be in order.
But then it is Minnesota….. nuff said.
Minnesotans elected a truther wrestler, so a failed unfunny clown is not off base.
It’s not as if we weren’t predicting this two months ago. Democrats can always be depended on to do the dishonest thing.
Land of 10,000 flakes
On January 5th, 2009 at 10:30 am, rplatt said:
Good one, R Platt, I agree completely!
I hope Sen. Coleman is successful in court with this fiasco of a recount (it’s a safe bet he’ll litigate), but if he isn’t, at least it will be entertaining to see Reid & the Democrats try to pass Obama’s agenda while remaining in full damage control over Senator Al “Bozo” Franken’s daily rants and rages on the national stage.
Never has a bunch of political hacks so obviously stolen so large an election in clear daylight.
If I were a Minnesota voter, I would sue that I had been disenfranchised by the process. Even if it didn’t result in a new election, the point would have been made, and maybe a movement would be started.
This may have a silver lining. He probably does not understand that potty humor doesn’t go over well with serious people, even Senate Democrats. Franken, being the braying jackass he is, will not be able to keep his mouth shut and inevitably will put his foot in it repeatedly. He will make Cythia McKinney seem like a respectable elder statesman. Problem is Dems, even if they manage to notice the low quality of their choices, turn around and select other brain-dead yahoos.
Unless you count the Washington State governor’s election a few years ago. That was the template for this one. They get away with it, so why not?
Anybody here ever see “Idiocracy?”
How about the short story “The Marching Morons?”
Congratulations Al Franken. After having elected the best President in US history (B. Obama), we’ll now have a great liberal Senator from Minn. Today I’m proud of America, little by little we are getting rid of GOP puppets. It’s great to see that this country is finally following the European path where conservatism and religion have long been defeated. Also, our current moron-in-chief will soon be forgotten. Good riddance.
He looks like something off a Devo album cover. Probably should be taken about as seriously.
We have three hundred million people in the U.S. and the best we can come up with are the 100 people who are in our US Senate?
It appears the qualifications required by our voters are a Senator must be 30 years of age, have a pulse, have lungs that ocassionally expand and contract, and an EEG that shows any activity above flat-lined.
But I am sure they all “care” so Oprah fans are happy.
oh yes the ‘european path’ that is now leading to europistan!! you should go to Paris, and visit the scenic suburbs….better grow a beard and learn to bend over to mecca five times a day!!
you must be in a great deal of pain, such stupidity has to hurt.
Al Franken……..the EPITOME of liberal idiocy.
This says a lot about voters, the Democrat party, and most certainly about the Republican party. A sad state of affairs and some troubling times are ahead for our great country.
and I hope the democRAT stooges get most of the ‘benefits’ (ie suffering) that Obama and his stooges like franken will bring on the country.
the union thugs will have to learn that you can’t have a union if you have no companies left in the US to give ya jobs…
Stuff like this causes me to have fantasies about strangling liberals with my bare hands, does this make me a bad person? I mean it would be so easy since most liberal men are girls anyway…I’m just sayin. Seriously though I see red when I have a Dem look me in the face, spout this crap, and then think I’m so stupid as to believe it. Pow! Bam! To the moon!
Yes, congrats edelweiss on your state’s election of a former, mentally-handicapped comedian as your next Senator from the once great state of Minnesota. After the former wrestler as your prior Governor, I didn’t think that you guys could top that. Yes, we all look forward to the days when atheism and anarchy rule the day.
I recommend that you all buy bottled water from now on.
Remember, we of Euopean descent are the descendants of the people who lived in Europe, realized how screwed up it was and got the &&&& out of there.
Why would we want to embrace what our ancestors wisely fled? Seems to flunk the common sense test.
Mr. Rove, please, wasn’t LGM enough? Did you have to send another instigator to this site?
Yeah, edel, it’s great we’re following the same path that is leading to sharia law. We’ll see what god you’re begging to when the religion of peace finds it’s blade at your neck, should we let it infest our nation.
Fixed it.
The Democrats can do anything they like. With enough money and “volunteers” filling out ballots days and nights leading up to election day, they are capable of stealing ANY election. They can fill all state and federal seats with Democrat drones.
The Constitution is dead. The United States is no more.
I’d laugh if it weren’t so tragic. I sure hope the Republican Party can get it’s act together in ‘09.
I would have to say at this point the class clowns, art & drama students and high school cry-babies have taken over the country. Oh boy. This should make for a real fun four years as reality smacks these morons in the face day after day. Too bad regular people will get smacked as well because of the incredible incompetence of our annointed ones.
Another prediction: No matter how many times reality clobbers them they will NEVER learn from their mistakes.
Fawning over a man who has yet to actually take office yet claiming him to be the “best ever”… check.
Acknowledging a pride in America only when things appear to be falling in your own political favor and not because America is great and worthy of pride due to its history… check.
Inferring religion to be an evil that must be “defeated”… check.
An obvious attempt to get attention for your schadenfreude… check.
This pretty much explains it all. Why wasn’t there a balance in the oversight of the process with a Republican conferring as well?
Minnesota was the only state not to vote Reagan in ‘84, wasn’t it?
Seems not much has changed.
Wow, even worse than what we have here in CA…what could be worse than Boxer and Feinstein? Al Frankenstein!
That post was slightly more comprehensible than most of your bizzaro fantasies, while still managing to maintain that ever-so-snobby anti-American elitism. Is your auntie helping you?
Caligula appointed his horse to the Roman Senate so it wouldn’t be correct to say that Franken is the biggest horses a** ever.
This is one more indication that democracy and the rule of law in America is pretty well done. There has been a revolution and the GOP and Democrat parties have stolen our government from “we the people.” Neither party governs according to or with the consent of the governed any longer. The constitution is effectively a dead scrap of paper. We are now well down that road to serfdom.
Al Franken, Caroline Kennedy and finally Barack Obama…..I guess it proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that our educational system is irretrievably broken.
Congrats Al. Laugh all you want, Malkinites, but he’s a smart guy, supports our armed forces, and will do a great job.
So, I guess edelweiss is going to wash himself with Obamasoap, put on his Obamajamas, rub his Obamacoins for good luck while sipping Obamajuice and listening to The One’s acceptance speech in the faux Greek temple while tittering about how silly religion is.
So, I guess edelweiss is going to wash himself with Obamasoap, put on his Obamajamas, rub his Obamacoins for good luck while sipping Obamajuice and listening to The One’s acceptance speech in the faux Greek temple while tittering about how silly religion is.
Exactly. Nowadays, too many current immigrants seem bent on bringing and inflicting upon us the screwed up cultures and politics they left behind.
No, it just puts you in the same boat as the rest of the sane voters who want to preserve our original culture and values, as outlined in the Constitution. The distinction between us and the liberals (we all would like to strangle) is that we don’t act on voilent thoughts to shut libtards up, but instead, we use logic and intelligence in a dignified manner to counter their stupidity.
With Caroline, you know, Kennedy the, you know, U.S. senate with, you know, Stuart Smalley, you know, we can expect, you know, just really good, you know, progressive legislation, you know.
Clearly the only purpose of a recount in a Democrat controlled state is to insure the victory of a Democrat candidate. They want to keep counting until they have
manufactured, er, discovered enough votes to achieve that end. Sometimes it just takes more time to get there and is done with less finesse.Democracy in America is done.
The really bad news is there is now no margin at all to sustain a filibuster, and with 5 RINOs or Republican-Lites in the Senate by my count, with Specter and the two Maine woman pro-abortion, the “Freedom of Choice Act” with a ‘right’ to federally funded abortions, and possibly the removal of exemptions for hospitals to refuse to perform abortions (which, per the US Conference of Catholic Bishops may mean the shuttering of all Catholic run hospitals in this country), will pass, the pro-union thug “card check” will require at least a few of the Democrat Senators from states not heavily unionized to join the filibuster to overcome likely defections from Specter, and Obama’s plans for trillions of dollars in make-work “stimulus” and “infrastructure” is a done deal.
Perhaps Minnesota got what they deserved but the joke is on us. Bad year for Republicans and America, but Republicans and America made some really stupid choices-regardless of what the DriveBy media and Democrats did.
But let us not fall into defeatism and call Democracy dead. Keep one foot in front of the other and take back you Party, your state and your country.
Our forefathers had it harder at Valley Forge. These too are the Times That Try Men’s Souls.Lock and Load.
he’s a moron. in other words, a typical liberal. he HATES the us military. and america…he wants to transform it into the USSA…where orwellian stooges like you will feel right at home..
Coleman was another RINO…its no big loss..
The US Senate’s approval ratings match Air America’s ratings…
He’ll feel right at home.
Just hope the obnoxious Marxist can’t help himself, and makes this a costly victory for the Dems by making stupid statements, and maybe assaulting GOP Senators on the floor.
If you’ll recall, Franken tackled a heckler at a Howard Dean rally from behind. He wrestled in high school and considers himself a tough guy.
Franken is also a lying POS. Said he remembers in the early 1960s when his Dad became a Democrat, because as a Jew he couldn’t support a party that supported segregation and racism. Sounds nice, and with our modern union run public schools, many people accept it, but more Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act than Democrats, and George Wallace and all the segregationists were Democrats. Hell, Jimmy Carter attended a whites only Baptist church until just before he began his campaign for President in 1975.
The world’s greatest deliberative body? Senator Al Franken, rude, crude, thoughtless, loud, disrespectful of others’ views, self-important, and doesn’t ever seem to consider that his views might be wrong. If he’s ever “deliberated” once in his life, then I missed it. He makes clowns look dignified.
Something to consider about the recount — Democrats are more likely to cheat than Republicans. For them, the end justifies the means. That’s just a fact. Maybe some Dem cheating in the recount.
I predict Franken will be unseated by the end of march.
There…fixed that for ya.
Hey, don’t dump on the whole state. I’m a Minnesotan and I wouldn’t have voted for Al Franken if you had held a gun to my head.
Oops…meant Undoubtably. Fumble fingers strikes again.
Oh, yeah. He’s great! Much better than those silly other presidents like Lincoln and Jefferson. He speaks in platitudes!!!!
By the way, Europe has not outlawed religion. They have just become lazy and are allowing an extremist religion get its head in the door.
I sort of disagree, rather, I differentiate.
McCain, Coleman and Lindsay Graham are “Republican-Lites”. They tend to vote with the GOP, but that is not guaranteed, and occasionally they’ll do flamingly stupid things to annoy the base or help the Democrats. (Country club conservative Kay Bailey Hutchison is liberal enough on immigration and social issues she is almost a Republican-Lite)
The two women from Maine are flat out Democrats, and vote with that caucus more often than they do with the Republicans. They are the true RINOs.
To further sub-classify, Arlen Specter, former Democrat, straddles the line between Republican-Lite and RINO. He probably belongs with the RINOs, but I remember him telling the fat DWI Killer from Massachusetts once to shut up when he was chairing a judiciary hearing, so I nudged him up a little from the worst of RINOcity.
Well, as they say, the people get the government they deserve. Sorry but if MN chooses to elect someone like Al Franken to represent them, then I have no desire to visit that state for vacation. I don’t wish any state or persons any harm but seriously does MN care what type of people they vote for office? It seems like in MN, the people will vote anyone in.
Anyway, with a 2 vote margin to blocking cloture, the Senate GOP had room for one RINO defection, and still maintain the filibuster. Now, there is no room for defection. The filibuster is essentially dead. Further, being one vote from guaranteed complete control of the Senate, it would not surprise me if Reid offered Snowe or Collins a juicy committee chair to get them to Jeffords over to joining their caucus.
Haha. No pun intended there, bcat? More like get their head in a basket. (the Europeans, that is)
Just brilliant to have your eyes closed tightly but claim you see perfectly. I’m sure you’re speaking of the Europe where religion is gone – except for Islam.
Note to liberals: Please engage brain before posting.
Have faith.
We survived LBJ.
We survived Carter.
The nation can survive this.
*amused* I’m SO glad we moved back in June. Coleman was no hardline conservative, so Minnesota is getting EXACTLY what they deserve, not just a joke as a senator, but all that global warming too….. ;}
TEEEEEJ
the country I grew up in is pretty much gone already…we’re slouching towards zimbabwe…
I’m at the point where I’ll be glad to see it fall, it needs to replaced with something better….although I know the signs of the times…and in the short run it will be much worse…
The problem is that we’re still suffering from what Carter did, and in fact the economical crisis we’re going through right now is a direct result of something that Carter started in the first place. I hope to God you’re right, but I’m not sure how many more bad presidents we can endure.
(sighing)… not you, too, Michelle! I fought my ass off to get Conservatives elected in MN. I voted, called, wrote in letters, knocked on doors, called in radio programs here in MN. We fought the good fight and will continue to do so. I expect the use of a broad brush over at Not so Hot Air, but here? To those who are upset with MN, I will offer my apologies, but only because I live here. I fought hard…. what did you do in your respective states. To edelweiss, my Irish ancestors left Ireland and the European moronic thought process to come here. If you think I’m going to passively let the country I love turn European, I will die to stop it…. will you be so tough for your cause?
I was thinking more along the lines of trying to keep out a wild animal. You know, once the head is in, he can get the rest in.
We are turning into a banana republic.
No act of the Senate can be held legitimate if the margins of votes is beholden to “Senator” Franken or “Senator” Burris.
There must be massive civil disobediance to this outrage.
I won’t be commenting on this thread after this one. I just want to say that, as much as I despise that creep, Franken, I think a lot of you are being really unfair to generalize and blame the whole state of Minnesota for this fiasco. There are some really good things about my state, and it is hurtful to hear comments like, “Minnesotans get what they deserve”, or “Minnesota is a national joke”, or “Minnesotans must be sniffing glue or have a brain freeze”. These are all clever little digs and normally I wouldn’t take offense. But seriously, folks, I think you should remember there are a number of Minnesotans on these posts who are decent, conservative, serious people. We are very upset at the corruption that led to this freak being elected. I just ask that you don’t paint us all with the same brush. I am sure Californians on these posts are also a bit miffed at the comments that say, “California can all break off into the ocean, no great loss”. Maybe I am too sensative right now because I am mad at the way our beautiful state has been hijacked by the moonbats. Forgive me if I am whining a bit!
I hear ya loud and clear, b-cat, and you’re spot on. Just trying to inject some humor into an otherwise depressing turn of events.
Well Our rulers both democrat and republican have agreed that this theft is Okee Dokee. No problems here, the elections may be corrupt but they are still better than In Russia or Iran, or are they? Just a bit of tidying up left to do…
Did we really? Many minority communities have not recovered from the social and economic disfunction caused by his failed “war on poverty”.
Did we really? Many minority communities have not recovered from the social and economic disfunction caused by his failed “war on poverty”.
You’re absolutely right, happy. By the same token, if somebody told me that America gets what she deserves, or that we’re all stupid for voting Obama in, I would be offended as well. It’s not all of Minnesota’s fault that that clown got elected, and in fact, I’m sure most of the people there are pretty pissed right about now that their state was hijacked by the barnum and bailey convoy heading to washington. My sympathies are with you and the rest of the good people in your state.
Please don’t feel offended, happy. It is a reaction to a frustrating turn of events. There is too much fishyness to the recounts to believe that this was a fair election. Anytime there is a recount, the dems always find just enough votes to turn the election in their favor.
I for one hope you stay around.
The difference between Obama and complete control of Congress and LBJ and Carter-
LBJ opposed Communism. He increased US participation in Viet Nam to try to stop the spread of Communism. His “Great Society” failed miserably, but hadn’t been tried before. No reason to suspect he didn’t love his country.
Jimmy Carter had attended the Naval Academy, and has been governor of Georgia. Although he turned out to be rather incompetent, he was probably a patriot when he was president. His hatred of Middle American values, embrace of Marxist dictators, and hatred of the Jews seems to have developed after his humiliating defeat to a man he considered a non-intellectual B movie actor. (Aside- check out William F Buckley’s last book before he died, his correspondance with Ronald Reagan over a three decade span- Reagan was no lightweight).
Obama’s Grandfather chose a communist as his mentor, because he believed Obama needed a Black role model. That tells you what you need to know about Grandpa Dunham. There must have been Black men on Oahu who weren’t Marxists. Obama fell under the influence of radicals like Edward Said at Columbia, and may have even developed his relation with terrorist bomber Bill Ayers there. Obama grew up in Indonesia, then the least American, culture wise, of the US states, Hawai’i. Obama’s intellectual background suggests he does not love the United States, as it exists now.
So optimism that comes from surviving LBJ and Jimmy Crater may be a bit misplaced.
I shouldn’t have eaten before reading that this morning, now I’m sick to my stomach…course Al Franken does that to me naturally.
I side with happyscrapper and am glad that she and others like her live in MN with me. We’ll never give up the fight, we promise you. We just don’t wish most of you to be part of the mob that “eats their young” because they’re ticked at what we are upset about as well.
Six USO tours including Iraq and Afghanistan.
Well I suppose I can understand what you are saying, shoot I’m from Michigan. We have Detroit, the Big 3, and Jennifer Granholm. Oh yeah, don’t forget those Lions!
Oh and the USO stinks and is political as all get out these past few years. ….. I know and my son knows. Being on a USO tour is no badge of honor anymore.!
…and yet not one word of protest from him (of which I am aware) against MoveOn.org’s shameful ad against General Petraeus.
and he’s against the troops mission in iraq, and if you’re against the mission, you’re against the troops..
In fairness to Minnesotans, a majority of them voted for Coleman on election day, they just didn’t elect him with a great enough margin to keep the Dems from stealing it for Franken.
I strongly suspected this result since the day after the election. It is no longer possible for a Republican to win a close race anywhere the Democrats have the levers of power. Part of the Marxist derived philosophy of the ends justify any means.
But what are you going to do about it?
Look, I grew up in Michigan, and I am deeply ashamed of my home state. I am embarrassed that Carl Lenin, Debbie Stupidcow, Jennie “one-state recession” Granholm, and Ron Middlefinger are in power there. But I also accept that the people of my state do get what they deserve since they elect and re-elect the same idiot-bastard over and over again.
I’d like to move back to the midwest, but it looks like Indiana is the only state that may be salvageable.
And “Eaglehasfarted” may cheer for corruption and theft as long as it benefits her side, but I think it’s shameful.
O.K. I lied. I will post here again! Thank you, David, for your encouragement. I have been feeling pretty blue about this election of our senator and perhaps have my granny pants in a bunch. I know that the posters here are just venting, like all of us do and they don’t mean anything by it. And, Gator…Wow! It must really suck to live in Michigan! Just kidding!! I like your self-deprecating humor and I need to use a bit of that myself.
Detroit, coming to a country near you..thanks to the democRATs…they care enough to keep you down and dependent upon them!!
Is there not enough suspect behavior and statistical craziness to warrant a new election runoff? This is a botched and/or rigged election and seems a legal no-brainer.
And thank you two also for cheering me up. I needed that.
It’s interesting what happens when Republicans like Norm Coleman and John McCain “take the high road” and refuse to attack their opponents.
They lose.
This must be why the liberal establishment and the MSM elite (but I repeat myself) are always telling Republicans to “take the high road.”
He is not very experienced but he is good at using the Dem standard M#^&F*#@ in his little speeches.Always impressive.
Exactly!! No way did a majority vote for that moron. This is rigged big time. Everyone knows it and the dems don’t care if we know it. If they can get away with it, they will, and not care what anyone thinks. I am listening to Rush right now, and he just said, “Franken did not win the race. He stole it”. He just said that as I am writing this.