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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
It just makes me happy to see he words "Senator Al Franken."
He certainly hopes to carry on the legacy of Paul Wellstone. An ambitious goal, but certainly achievable. I just hope he embarrasses the congress into repealing Don't Ask/Don't Tell and the Defense of Marriage Act. Bu I'm confident he'll (over time) do much more.
Harvard grad, great on his talk show, smart, knowledgeable fact-based books.. And you have to be very smart to do comedy well. I hope he kicks ass!!!!
Speaking of the Republicans and the elections over the past several years, Harry Reid says, "The last eight years have shown us the American people want us to work together."
This is what Harry Reid takes away from the past several elections where Republicans have been handed their collective asses by the voters, in practically every election at every level throughout the country? Bipartisanship? This is what Reid thinks it's all been about?
The Democrats will piss this opportunity away, being as equally corrupt and whorish as the Republicans, and the Republic will not be restored and the citizens, the hard working, modest, common citizens, will once again be heaped on the funeral pyre of corporate greed to be roasted and eaten by the mafia cartels that own everything, even your DNA.
The democrats are using the 60 vote requirment for everything as an excuse not to get anything done. It's obvious their still scared of talk radio and Fox News. I doubt Franken's presence will make them grow a spine anytime soon though they may not be able to use that 60 vote requirement excuse for much longer. This country needs a real progressive party and Al Franken can be it's leader.
Frankly I'd pay to see some of Al's cutting humor leveled at some of this his colleagues. It could help the public get involved in the proceedings.
Imagine if SENATOR Al Franken questioned someone like Bill O'Reily or Rush Limbaugh at a senate hearing! C-Span would get huge ratings.
Senator Franken: Mr. Limbaugh, you're not nearly as fat or as much of liar under oath, bully!
Rush Limbaugh: Why thank you Senator Franken, I appreciate that.
Senator Franken: You better buddy because now we're going to shred your butt now, you freakin' drug felon!
Okay, I'll settle for an effective Democratic senator but anyone that can say, "I'm the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota", has to be revered for his wit. Lets hope he stick around and get to the age where he once again says what he thinks.
Not unless he has a spare spial column around he can lend to Harry Ried.
Are you joking?
about?
since he is not above stealing elections. I'm positive no self-respecting Minnesotan would vote for this clown. Like Obama, there's no limit to the damage he can do to our republic.
Obviously every single Minnesotan who voted for Franken loathes himself, and clearly by letting the vote count and the courts determine that he won the election, rather than surrendering to Coleman, Franken stole the election. Moron.
I would love to see how popular the Republicans become after filibustering a health care bill that includes the public option. Since the public option is a win-win and anything else (except single payer) is a lose-lose I can hardly imagine them gaining support for delaying important legislation. The public option has 72% support among voters - hardly something to oppose.
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. :-)
Let that roll off your tongue a few times ya Right-Wing zealots! In my experience (limited as it may be) I have found that the funniest person in the room is at least the third or fourth smartest. Sometimes he may even be the best for the job but gets passed over because he is seen as the "Joker". Having read one of his books I think that not only is he smart enough to be in the Senate, but he's strong enough and doggone-it, people like him! Would you rather have a person in power with a shit-load of baggage to hide? Franken wouldn't talk shit if he had a mouthful of it.
given the unrelenting hateful, stupid din from the murdock mavens over the past decade and more, and the fact that Al Franken found a way to get heard in print and on the airwaves above that pernicious roar that has gutted so much of American society, I think he deserves cudoes that I'm not hearing.
Of course he had to battle beyond the normal election cycle because being truly heroic, it was necessary to prove it by going the extra round. And he went the extra round and he won.
He's a true hero and patriot in the best sense. He has worked hard to win America back from the right wing ideologues. I can't think of one other person who did more to stand strong aginst the tide that was overwhelming the best in our culture.
than documented citizens to cast the votes? Ann Coulter wrote an entire column on the expert election stealer.
"The last eight years have shown us the American people want us to work together. Democrats aren't looking to Sen. Franken's election as an opportunity to ram legislation through this body. In turn, Senate Republicans must understand that Sen.-elect Franken's election does not abdicate them from the responsibilities to govern."
The last eight years didn't show us any such thing, and yes, there actually are plenty of us Democrats who want healthcare and environmental reform (and a lot of other things), and don't give a crap how many Republicans squeal and scream and stamp their little Rumplestiltskin feet about it.
Reid acts like the Senate dog-and-pony show is somehow important to us. It isn't. Results, and only results are important. A lot of us (including myself) are unemployed, and this is a life-and-death issue for us. Back when the Repukes were in power, they only needed 50 votes plus Dick Cheney to do whatever the hell they wanted, and the Dems were too spineless to even threaten a filibuster, much less go through with one.
The only people calling for bipartisanship (a stupid oxymoron) are the right-wing talking heads on TV. Ask your average person on the street how important bipartisanship is, and where they place it relative to getting healthcare for their sons or daughters.
The congress has this echo-chamber they live in, where they all simply assert that the American people think this, or want that, but it's just a projection onto us, delivered ad-nauseum from the right wing media. Nearly 70% of us want government run healthcare to be available, or even more, depending on the poll. We elected Dems in a landslide to get stuff done, not to play footsies with the jackasses who got us into this mess, and are now trying to blame it on us.
I'd rather have 50 votes and Al Franken or Tom Harkin as majority leader, than 70 votes with Harry Reid.
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