I don’t like him. I don’t want my tax dollars going to his life-long pension. When is Bill Maher running in Cali?

Finally, we have two senators in office again.

It’s the Democrats that like to filibuster. The Republicans want those voting records, or so they say. Now the Democrats have no excuses and blaming Bush has already gone stale.

It’s the Democrats that like to filibuster. The Republicans want those voting records, or so they say. Now the Democrats have no excuses and blaming Bush has already gone stale.

Jed Clampett

The G_Damners and mother haters are doing whatever possible to push the right buttons to start intense chaos in the motherland.

Gotta be starting something, for Maoma’s sake, make it be something worth trying.

Where will the goose egg fall? Will St. Helen go first? Will the Three Gorges crack and let the energy of the waters loose again?

Independence day approaches, where will you be?
I was thinking Daley Plaza, but too many MIC.KEY mouses there.
Perhaps I’ll enjoy NEwYork NewYOrk NewYorK, City of the people, city of deceivers.
Or maybe my mami, nothing but a bunch of cigars smokers and lawn clippers there anyway.

Watch out, CornyHolio and the other GrandWizzard Lizzards are playing with strings, and it ain’t Angel music they are making.

Ventura is the only worthwhile choice. Too bad he didn’t run.

Jed Clampett

For those of you who can still appreciate the blue/green marble…

http://www.latimes.com/tra vel/la-tr-oddspots-pg,0,169700 8.photogallery

Franken stole the election with the help of the Minnesota Supreme Court, using the same tactics that Al Gore unsuccessfully tried in 2000, tossing out the absentee ballots that would have given Coleman the decisive victory.
I guess they had to get it right sooner or later.
BTW, Rolling Stone SUCKS, especially the political section.

Jed Clampett

Hmmm, that didn’t stir anyone to comment… interesting.
Is there anybody out there?
Is there anybody in there?

How about that daily show last night? did you see the clip they had of Jeff Beck and Santa’s Evil twin?
How does that make you feel?
They have set the stage and the traitors within the military, government and religion are salivating for the carnage to come.
We don’t need Bin-Laden to do the deed? There are plenty of Mother/Brother haters here to carry the deed out for them.

Where’s Jack Bouer when you need him?
BTW – Inhoffe suggested that Americans wanted to torture because of the popularity of the series 24. Did he not recognize that in every season it was an internal conspiracy of GREED driving the attacks on our nation and the security of the planet?

He stole the election by COUNTING MORE votes? Hmmmm.. right-wing logic.

As a life-long Minnesotan, think how I feel! First we vote in Ventura, then we vote in Mark Dayton, arguably the most incompetent person whoever set foot in DC, then we are left w/ this buffoon as one of our senators…so we have Klobuchar and Franken as our reps to the U.S. Senate…SNL couldn’t make this up! The guy I feel the sorriest for is Coleman–think about it: he lost to Ventura in the Governor race, and now to the big buffoon…geeeezzz!!!!!

Coleman is a big corrupt idiot. Franken is a Harvard graduate, and good smart guy.
Consider youself lucky to have him.

It was a hard-fought close election, but Franken won. Minnesota has some of the best election laws and supervision under the leadership of secretary of State Mark Ritchie of anywhere in the country. Franken won at every step of the appeals process, and gained votes. Hooray! He understands the serious issues we face and he is ready to go to work. Hooray! I’m glad he will finally be sworn in next week and Minnesota will have proper representation by two US Senators.
Frankin has taken this race very seriously, worked hard, and I think he will be a fine US Senator and represent Minnesota fairly.

Greg D writes: “It’s the Democrats that like to filibuster. The Republicans want those voting records, or so they say. Now the Democrats have no excuses and blaming Bush has already gone stale.”

You’re right about the Democrats having 60. However it does not excuse Republicans and their “Party of No” partisanship – let alone are they innocent of having strategy that involves, say, filibustering – as organized by the likes of Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.).

Oh, and Greg D, there is one more thing: 43rd president George W. Bush’s “leadership” will live in infamy. A question of his “getting stale” is a wish that will not soon be granted. Click your heels all you want – today’s economy rests squarely on Bush and his administration.

@candyass et al:
way to get that on record. Now if you could explain to all of us why resources that could be devoted to policy, or perhaps not utilized at all, are misallocated to warping public opinion? You people disgust me.

candy et al-
Now that you’ve gotten on the record, can you explain why it is so important for public servants to allocate resources to opinion-mongering, versus actually doing the business of the people, or perhaps not utilizing resources in the first place? You are aiding and abetting a corrupt system that poses in the guise of digital democracy but is really nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt by the power structure to maintain the status quo using whatever means are available. It’s ironic that a medium that is often touted as having the potential to bring about greater transparency in government, and thereby restoring power to the people, is really just another tool that is being used to seize control by manipulating public perceptions and opinions.

Stew,

Of COURSE we disgust you. We live by all the precepts laid forth in the Ten Commandments, the Bible and the Declaration of Independence.

You live by greed and military imperialism.

It’s the Yin and Yang of philosophy: you bad, we good.

Glad it’s that simple, Socrates.

blood for oil of olay and Stuart Smallpeeny – both of you need to become coherent. (Good luck.)

Al Franken thinks that because he can make a bunch of white people laugh he’s qualified to be a Senator. While that may be true it’s a sad commentary on American politics.

Al Franken’s belated victory is no cause for celebration in the black community. How can a white privliged New Yorker have any insight into inner city MSPL? How come when I check Franken out on policy websites all it says about his civil rights record is that he’s sorry for making fun of siamese twins and transexuals? It seems like someone in the Democratic party decided they needed a famous white dude from Harvard to take over in MN so they called Franken up. Kinda like what they did in NY with Clinton. It’s like there isn’t a single person of color in these states, so they need to import famous white people to step in.

You don’t know crap. Franken ran because it was thought that no one was going to beat Coleman. Turned out that Coleman was just as twisted as most elected people in Congress. Al used that and took the election. Al Franken is likely just as amazed that he actually won as was Ventura. It sucks to be a Minnesotan.

Congratulations Al Franken!!!!! Why are republicans whining about this?
They arrogantly told the democrats to suck it up when Bush stole both elections which kept them in power so they could run the country into the ground.
They talk about Obama and the deficit which was forced to clean up Bush’s 8 yr fiasco but don’t like to admit that the deficits began with Reagan and HW Bush. Then Clinton cleaned up their mess with a surplus. George W Bush came along and decided that money would be better spent in Iraq chasing the former family friend Saddam to finish what his father failed at. The republicans had no problem with gutting the treasury and eliminating banking laws and all kinds of regulatory balances until we ended up with this mess we have now.
AND their solution is to eliminate taxes and regulations the same way as before that created the mess in the first place.
I’ll bet Reagan is rolling over in his grave saying “Damn fellas, at least I had alzheimers as an excuse!”
If a b movie actor can be elected to the office of President, and a peanut farmer, and an oil baron, and his incompetent son, and a good old boy from Arkansas, and now a Black man, then why is a commedian as senator such a big deal?
Comedy by its nature forces people to look at many issues from many angles.
Let’s see what he comes up with.
You may be pleasantly surprised – especially given the low bar that politicians set these days.

Man, you are so racist and you probably don’t even know it. You tell me I don’t know crap as if I’m stupid!? If your so damn smart, why don’t you tell me how many black senators we got. How about ever? With all the fine leadership on the local level in the black community, why does a party supprt a NY jew in MN? The arrogance and bigotry this is representing is off the charts. Affirmative action, civil rights, urban strife, funny man Franken has no record and no credibility on any of these issues. There are all kinds of leaders from the local black community could have been a better choice. A senator is one man out of 100. If this one man doesn’t have the cred on the issues to represent his state, then its hard to believe in whatever system put him there.

And another thing, can anyone doubt that leaders in the Minnesota black community were eagerly awaiting outreach from the party when the seat opened up? They are not going to take a snub like this lightly. Al Franken’s contempt for the black community can’t be ignored. He deserves as much ridicule and scorn as we can heap on him. How could he have been so unaware, so insensitive to, the dialogue that was going on in our community? How can people not realize that the total lack of representation of blacks in the senate is unjust and when leaders in a states black community are ignored to make room from a carpetbagging white dude its a slap to the face to us? As far as I am concerned Al Franken is a racist.

Yes, it is a little hard to figure out where this guy gets off thinking he actually represents Minnesota. His qualifications are minimal at best. If he hadn’t been on TV no one would have paid him any attention. I hadn’t thought of it until now, but it does seem like a step backwards for Franken to have been tapped over a person of color. I am not prepared to say that Al Franken is a racist, but I am disappointed that an opportunity to build on positive momentum was lost.

Al Frankin is a political hack. Plain and simple. His constituency is the left-wing inteligentsia, not actual people who are trying to get by. Franken is an elitist a-hole who made friends with party bigwigs and was rewarded by the club in exchange for the loan of his name recognition. It’s crazy that after 8 years of being lied to by the Repubes that we get the same disrespect from the Democrats. We are being treated like idiots. I looked into Al Franken’s civil rights record per the suggedtion below and it turns out that his staffers have supplied the website with some ridiculous anecdote from his childhood and the Goldwater candidacy. Hahaha. Nice try! In other words: Al Franken has no civil rights record worth mentioning (but please make do with a cute little story about little al).

What else is new, of course Franken is a racist. You should hear some of his jokes about Asians. AL Franken’s depiction of African Americans is also deplorable. He wrote a skit for SNL, which was going to start Garrett Morris – the only African American on the show at the time – doing a mock commercial for a product called “Tar brush.” The product was supposed to help darken the white shiny teeth of black people. This racist parody resulted in two black technicians walking off the show in disgust.