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Tuesday, July 7, 2009 12:00 AM

Al Franken takes his job very seriously

Being the 60th Democratic Senate vote is no joke. But can Franken guarantee Sotomayor vote or healthcare reform?
By Mike Madden

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  • Monday, July 6, 2009 10:27 PM

    Congratulations Senator Franken

    A lot of us have known that you are much more than a comedian for quite a while. Hopefully you can bring a couple of extra backbones for certain waffling members of your/our party and get aggresively behind a public option on Healthcare. Anything short of a strong public option is just going to be more of the same and about 70% of us are well aware of this.

    Again congratulations on a hard fought and clearly won (not stolen) election race.

    And to Amy Klobuchar, congrats on FINALLY not being the sole Senator of your great state.

    I look forward to seeing you both on Rachel Maddow.

    PS: Rush Limbaugh is still a big fat idiot. :-)

    —jomomma Read jomomma's other letters

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