No shit, Sherlock, now how did you figger out I was a troll?

welcome al. as a minnesotan who believes in government for the people i appreciate your putting forth the effort to unseat norm coleman and his smoke and mirrors in a state where the citizens get fooled every now and again into believing that mom and apple pie and no taxes replace caring about the things that matter.

i think it will be great to have an articulate spokesperson for the ideas that the republicans like to belittle in their talking heads psychobabble.

looking forward to it al. get to work

The right-wing's palpable fear of Franken never ceases to amaze me. The trolls bray from under their bridges, but will never come out and argue the merits of any issue.

This much I can tell you: a GOP senator will something that is blisteringly stupid, Franken will take the floor and leave their (rhetorically speaking) bloody corpse out on the senate floor on national television. ON THE MERITS.

That is the basis for their terror.

Wow, Franken's confirmation has brought out the trolls in full venomous and spluttering frenzy. Which is a strong sign it's a good thing. I'm not a great Lord of the Rings fan, but somehow can't help thinking of Gollum muttering and cooing over the very "precious" which has so deformed him.

Let's see, Terkoy: Limbaugh and O'Reilly are successful because they speak the truth, but FDR is the only man who was elected to the presidency four times because he's a lying scumbag?

Impressive thinking. Almost as effective as citing Ann Coulter.

I'm not sure why people expect anything more with 60 than we got with 58 or 59, given that you couldn't get 60 Democrats to agree on a "we love puppies and ice cream" resolution. The Southerners and Midwesterners would be terrified it would make them look weak, Lieberman and Specter would talk about how anything the Democrats do is bad for America, and Harry Reid would sit there looking dumbfounded while the Republicans threatened to raise holy hell.

And the resolution would quietly die. Hooray for the Democratic "super"majority!

Gosh, bdop4 took the words right out of my mouth. Yes, the wingnuts are petrified of Al Franken. They should be. Not necessarily because he's #60, although that's nothing to sneeze at. But because he's smart and cares about people's lives. He will be a great Senator.

You should have seen the comments over at Free Republic when Norm Coleman conceded. When the Freepers weren't spluttering furiously at Coleman for throwing in the towel, they were bemoaning the fact that now, with Franken, we're going to get healthcare reform. Can't come soon enough for me!

P.S. As to the timing of the swearing-in, it's supposed to be today at 12:15 EST, live on C-SPAN2.

That made me flash on an old Rodney Dangerfield joke:

RD: "Doctor, what's wrong with me?"

Doc: "You've got 3 months to live."

RD: (indignantly) "I want a second opinion!"

Doc: "Sure. You're ugly, too."

...because the election of Senator Al Franken is pissing off all the right people!

I mentioned Smith and Willkie. The press was in his pocket as they are with Obama. No mention of his mistress or disability. No on-air criticism from Joe Pyne or Rush. He stacked the Supreme Court for decades with liberals. All ways were FDR's ways. The populace had no alternative to his failed policies. After all his alphabet projects (dig the hole, fill the hole) unemployment was higher end of '30s than beginning. Then the shameful internment of Japanese. FDR rots in hell.

So, until Harry Reid has a TRILLION votes, he'll be unable to pass anything. Sorry.

to live. Then...

I told him I couldn't pay...

He gave me another 3 months.

Now off to run with the bulls in Pamplona (ouch.)

Michael Jackson cocktail, anyone?

-- terkoy

I'm afraid you're speaking in wingnut code that those of us in the "reality-based community" don't understand.

Interesting universe you have constructed for yourself. Not credible or harmonious, but hard to look away from, in the way that it is hard not to look at a horrible traffic accident.

"Democrats aren't looking to Sen. Franken's election as an opportunity to ram legislation through this body."

...as if Harry Reid had anything approaching the ability to make THAT happen. Reid is also dead wrong when he opines that the last eight years signaled that Americans want Republicans and Democrats to work together. The last election, I thought, sent a message that Americans were repudiating the last eight years of policy decisions. Unfortunately, thus far Congress and the President haven't done enough to undo the damage and it appears from Reid's attitude that the Dems are going to squander their opportunity to effect real change. Sad, but not unanticipated, since both parties are essentially owned by the banking industry.

As shown in two of his recent Salon letters:

#1:

Daddy! Daddy! I's jest done been bit by a chigger!

[Read the article: The Obamas' first harvest]

[Read more letters about this article: Here]

"Around here, son, we calls 'em chigroes."

Permalink Sunday, July 5, 2009 09:03 PM

#2:

First joke I heard was they were going to dig up The Rose Garden

[Read the article: The Obamas' first harvest]

[Read more letters about this article: Here]

and turn it into a watermelon patch.

Permalink Sunday, July 5, 2009 09:02 PM

Keep giving the game away, terkoy. Each of your posts undermines any effort by your beloved Republican party to pretend that it's inclusive and welcoming to any but a few token black and brown people.

Let's see you strange liberals do something with it, and then own the disastrous results that will follow.

Strange. Now that's an insult! I'm so hurt!

Here in Austin we have a slogan: "Keep Austin Weird." In other words, please remain where you are. Wouldn't want you coming around and normal-ing up the place.

You won't have republicans or Sarah Palin to blame anymore, but they'll be back to clean up your mess. Does the majority power scare you? It should, as the populace eventually wises up to your anti-American schemes.

Yeah, everyone hates healthcare. I guess you're right.

For starters, cap and trade. Please, please pass cap & trade to put U.S. companies at a huge competitive disadvantage at home and abroad. Profits shrink to pay for bizarre carbon 'credits'

We're not any of us going to be making much profit when we're forced to breath hydrogen sulphide, and the sky turns green from ocean outgassing. Why do Republicans want all their grandkids to die?

(even though by now we all know "global warming" is a scam, and the global cooling & warming is a direct causal relationship with sun spot activity),

I'm not sure who this "we" is that you are talking about. "We" certainly don't "all know" anything of the sort. What we do know is that you're speaking directly from your sphincter. In fact, you can't cite a single peer-reviewed scientific article for your assertion, because no such article exists. You may as well say that we all know the moon landing was fake, or that Elvis isn't really dead.

unemployment increases, and inflation skyrockets in order to maintain the tax base for gom'nt programs such as national healthcare.

Where were you when GWB was spending 50 billion a week to kill brown people in a country that had nothing to do with 9/11? All of the sudden, when we're talking about money to help poor and/or unemployed people stay alive, you find the courage to pipe up. Your priorities are pathetic. You call us unamerican? What's more unamerican than wishing early death on millions of Americans? Furthermore, how much more stupid and shortsighted could you possibly be? Do you not understand that money spent on preventative care is better than money spent in the ER?

Oh yeah, national healthcare. Go ahead with that winner too. As the scope of national healthcare broadens as it inevitably will, the nanhy state (who runs national healthcare) will come-a-calling for your freedoms. After all, one cannot do anything to one's body such as eat fatty foods or alcohol, cigarettes, or POT (I know that one really scares you libs) without potentially costing "national healthcare" additional monies that should be spent on people who haven't abused their bodies and just get sick randomly.

Has this happened anywhere else? You do realize that every other industrialized nation has national healthcare, right? Even if your tinfoil hat weren't constricting the blood to your brain, let's say your prediction comes to pass. Would you rather let poor kids die because the government might try to make you quit smoking? You're a hoot. Bet you're fun at parties.

Have you liberals actually thought through the ramifications of your pet projects? Are you really that short-sighted? Do you not ever take into consideration the human condition when crafting your short term, feel-good legislation?

Yeah, the conservatives are so much better at governing that they've bankrupted the country and turned the entire world against us. Do you really forget that we just had 8 long years of your BS? Sorry to burst your bubble, but the American people already did wake up. We woke up to the fact that your party is entirely hell-bent on destruction and divisiveness, and you have absolutely nothing else to offer. That explains the last election, and also why your party is going to have to reinvent itself, and maybe even come up with a new name, like the Whigs before you.

There were Hooverites like you screaming bloody murder while FDR lifted us from the great depression, and there will be people like you until the Sun goes into its red giant phase and swallows the Earth, but at least for now, what a relief that your ghoulish heroes are out of power!