Thursday, April 16, 2009

Making Sense

Update on Al Franken: I saw this over at Raw Story---

Poll Says Minnesotans Want Franken Seated from UPI.com:

A poll released Wednesday reveals Minnesotans, by and large, want Republican Norm Coleman to concede the state's U.S. Senate race to Democrat Al Franken.
Public Policy Polling said its survey indicated 63 percent say Coleman should call it a day rather than continue to fight in court, USA Today reported.....

Will Coleman go against the will of the people?

Most people know that Al Franken won the U.S. Senate race in Minnesota. Unfortunately, Republican Norm Coleman and his legal team are trying to drag out a possible appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court. Reasonable people realize that Coleman is doing his best to slow down the process of getting Franken to the Senate. Even Gov. Tim Pawlenty is playing along with Coleman in hopes to further his own presidential ambitions. Coleman, Pawlenty, and their Republican cohorts look like a bunch of sore losers.

Here is another take on the Minnesota contest. There is an excellent column by Ann Woolner at Bloomberg.com:

Ha! Ha! Ha! You gotta read this. Republicans claim laws to protect against vote fraud aren’t fair. Or, more specifically, they’re trying to get around them.....
....Franken’s a hoot, but Coleman turns out to be the funny man in the race.

Get this: He wanted state judges to order officials to count absentee ballots cast by unregistered voters. Do you believe it? Oh, man. My sides hurt from laughing at that one....

The entire column is hilarious, but also helps set the record straight about Coleman's stupid antics.

>>> Fox News and their 'tea bagging' followers seemed to have an interesting day yesterday. Did anyone else notice that those people who were interviewed parroted the words and phrases said by the Fox News talking heads? Where were the millions of their supporters that were promised? Will Fox News ever stop using the phrase "tea baggers" and "to tea bag" so that the rest of us can stop laughing?