five seconds on this 'We're rubber and your glue' garbage.

some comments made here are unbelievably disgusting. because franken used some ad hominem in his efforts to be heard above the rightwing rant, it seems any type of vile infective is considered fair game. i wish he'd left out the 'fat" part of his attack on limbaugh, because there was plenty to target besides the obvious.

Let's face it, during any election the Republican who throws mud is depicted in the media as "tough" and "agressive." When Democrats do it - or just give as good as they get - they're depicted as shrill, "angry" and otherwise beyond the pale, and as a consequence they usually lose.

Not this time.

Limbaugh and Company are pissed off because they are completely freaked out that the Republican strategy of the last fifty years (remember Nixon and the "pink lady"?) seems to be losing its potency. First it was Obama, now Franken. To put it in crude terms, the collective Republican pee-pee is shriiiiiveliiiiiing.

The guy is as retarded as he looks. If he want's game, we got it.

His mother is uglier than him.

Your post inspired me . . .

. . . to pull out my iPod and listen to "Ya Mama," by The Pharcyde.

"Awwwwwwww, ya mom is so fat (how fat is she?)

We rode up on her back to get some burgers from Wendy's

and her skates went flat; I got stuck in her butt crack

They thought I was lost but I was caught by the G-strap

Heaven forbid a giant fart would give way

Cause that would blow me round the world in a day

We drove into the drive-in and she didn't have to pay

because we dressed her up to look just like a Chevrolet."

You may think this post has been entirely pointless.

No more pointless than the rest.

But at least you learned a little bit about African-American culture and history.

Ya mama.

You are too boring to read.

I kinda wonder, did someone twist Clinton's arm? We are dealing with the mafia.

Would you tell?

You are in Chicago, baby.

You're more boringer than I. And furthermore, ya mama is a ho.

;)

To Republicans it's about slowing the left down, making Franken timid, playing the ref, and it usually works.

Franken has started out as anything but bold. He should fit right in with the Obama is wuss administration.

The irony in the claim by Fox and the WSJ that the "election was stolen" is that at no time in the trial court or the Supreme Court did Coleman even make a claim of election fraud. If Coleman's own lawyers never claimed fraud, how can Fox and the WSJ be so convinced that there was election fraud? Normally, Fox and WSJ would be claiming that the lawyers were making up specious claims. Now they are claiming that his lawyers failed to make a good claim.

Thank you for your service.

Have a great Fourth of July weekend.

Hey, Salon:

As Conason points out, all these quotes from wingnuts tell me much more about them than about Franken.

So can we have an article now about Sen. Al Franken, (D)MN? (Ooooo, that looks good!)

My daughter is a college student in Minnesota and is among those who knows Franken only as one side of a very stupid, ugly, bitter campaign. As a result, she is ambivalent about him. I'd love to have an article to email to her that starts to educate her about the prize she now has in the Senate.

What I really don't understand is why sensible Republicans allow this kind of nonsense to go unchallenged.

I don't know. Somebody should ask both of them why they're doing it . . .

This reaction was to be expected from Limbaugh and his F*cks News buddies. Afterall the owner of that joint is Repugnican and so are those who spout the usual F*cks garbage.

There's something about calling anyone "A big fat idiot" that seems to sum up our current American mindset---a political system riddled with negatvity and immaturity. I don't think we're going to move past such behavior until everyone remembers the rules we learned in kindergarten.

I'd like to encourage my children to engage more in politics as they age, but quite frankly, it's embarrassing and seems to echo the same games and name calling they see in high school. I can't say the adult world holds much promise for them.

All I can do is repeat the same mantra they've been hearing since childhood: "The world is full of people of different colors, religious beliefs and political values. Respect them all."

Unfortunately, our polticians, bloggers, and media make for poor role models. The lying, deception, name calling, disrespect, cheating, sensationalism, and biasness leave little to be desired.

I give up.

Every post you read here is likely to shave a couple of IQ points off your score.

If any of you saw some clown saying what you post here you would think that they were probably stupid enough to be on TV.

On the one hand, name calling is a drag. it just keeps everyone too angry to think. on the other hand, finger wagging and tisking over words that maybe state the honest truth is something else.i just finished reading an essay by G. K. Chesterton who wrote back in the 1920's that calling a thing by its coarse common name serves the moral purpose more. he didn't say calling someone's mother the coarse common name does so.

limbaugh is not intelligent but not a complete idiot, and i don't care if he's fat and ugly. i care that he manipulats other unintelligent types to vote other unintelligent types into high office and the result is total global economic meltdown!! This is where unintelligence leads in maters of public discourse.

I have heard lots of talk about Stuart Smalley (played by a cum laude Harvard graduate) having to be Al Franken's alter ego. But I have yet to hear anyone on the right explain how this is unacceptable when the Terminator played by a U of Wisconsin graduate and visa vilolator; and Sargent Murphy played by a Eureka College graduate must have been ok. Is it that Stuart Smalley was wimpy and the other two characters are macho? I really would like to know the Republican justification for this if anyone has heard it.