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Franken Wins Minnesota Senate Race; Dems Have 60 Vote Super Majority - Video 6/30/09
Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | June 30, 2009 | BrianinMO

Posted on 06/30/2009 3:41:13 PM PDT by Federalist Patriot

Comedian Al Franken was declared the winner of the Minnesota Senate race today after the Minnesota Supreme Court rejected all of Sen. Norm Coleman's legal arguments that the recount had been unfair. Coleman conceded the race in the video below . . . . (Watch Video) . . . . The victory gives the Democrats 58 Senate seats, with two independents who virtually always vote with the Democrats. That equals a 60-vote super majority in the Senate if they all stick together. Sixty votes are enough to invoke cloture, which allows legislation to be brought to the floor. . . .

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1 posted on 06/30/2009 3:41:13 PM PDT by Federalist Patriot
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To: Federalist Patriot

What a country....what a country.


2 posted on 06/30/2009 3:42:23 PM PDT by Islaminaction
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To: Federalist Patriot

Stolen election by left wing thuggery.


3 posted on 06/30/2009 3:43:20 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Federalist Patriot

Passed in 2009, repealed in 2010.


4 posted on 06/30/2009 3:44:54 PM PDT by pvoce ('Good' sense and 'Common' sense are two entirely different concepts.)
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To: Federalist Patriot

I’m officially now beyond contempt and disgust for the United States Senate.

Even “pathetic” or “ridiculous” doesn’t capture it.

What shall we name this new laughingstock body of charlatans and fools?


5 posted on 06/30/2009 3:45:27 PM PDT by angkor
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To: Bon mots

And buggery.


6 posted on 06/30/2009 3:45:41 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: Federalist Patriot
I am amazed anyone thought it would turn any differently!
7 posted on 06/30/2009 3:46:41 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Federalist Patriot

Check out Drudge LOL!

Stuart Smalley.


8 posted on 06/30/2009 3:46:52 PM PDT by nhwingut (The media's love affair with Obama reminds me of a dog humping a telephone pole.)
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To: angkor

Images like court jesters or royal fools come to mind, but this is America with an allegedly different kind of government. Democratic jesters? Representative fools?


9 posted on 06/30/2009 3:47:27 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Don't blame me -- I use Linux.)
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To: Federalist Patriot

And the left-wing Internet chat boards have lit up with people saying “the Democrats have power, but must use it wisely and carefully. This is not a time for settling old scores or plundering the treasury, but rather, a time for making careful decisions with an eye upon history.”

Okay, not really. But I can dream sometimes...


10 posted on 06/30/2009 3:47:42 PM PDT by Our man in washington
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To: Federalist Patriot
The victory gives the Democrats 58 Senate seats, with two independents who virtually always vote with the Democrats.

Two Dems are all but unable to fulfill their elected duties (Swimmer and Sheets). However, we have the gang of McCain, Graham, Martinez, etc. who vote with the liberals in the neighborhood of 50%.

With the GOP foisting more RINO candidates upon us (e.g. Crist), this eternal optimist is getting seriously jaded.

11 posted on 06/30/2009 3:48:30 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Obama: A day without TOTUS is like a day without sunshine)
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To: Federalist Patriot

If thats what 33% of Minnesotans want then a small man in a diaper is what they will get.


12 posted on 06/30/2009 3:49:17 PM PDT by linn37 (cue the circus music the democrats are back in charge)
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To: NautiNurse

One less RINO to worry about in the primaries.


13 posted on 06/30/2009 3:51:52 PM PDT by jdsteel (CONGRESS: Take it again in twenty ten.)
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To: Our man in washington

There are times when I think having Democrats running govt will be a very good thing when Social Security and Medicare go bust and/or inflation goes to 20% as the govt prints money to prop them up.


14 posted on 06/30/2009 3:53:55 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Federalist Patriot

The Honorable "Senator" from Minniesoooooda!

Like Franken, Iran's loser-named-winner, Ahmadinejad, got even more votes on the re-count than he got on the first stuffed-ballot-box count.

15 posted on 06/30/2009 3:54:38 PM PDT by Matchett-PI (Obama has entered the "cracking stage" of his presidency. ~ Gagdad)
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To: Federalist Patriot

Why are we bothering to follow the law anymore?


16 posted on 06/30/2009 3:55:15 PM PDT by Clock King
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To: Islaminaction
thanks third party voters....so much......you did it again...gave us a flaming freaking idiot leftist Senator for 6yrs .....

did your sissy fit really feel that good?

Minn......farms and fishing and wolves and moose....and all those lakes....a lot of you are a bunch of idiots ...

enjoy your communist country...

17 posted on 06/30/2009 3:57:21 PM PDT by cherry
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you're joking aren't you?....when, not if, Medicare and SS go broke, officially, the Rats will choose favorites like they did with the Gm and Chryler workers.....only nonunioin, non Christian, non minority need apply....

everything...everything...is being stolen from us....

18 posted on 06/30/2009 3:59:45 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Federalist Patriot

The face of the Democrat Party is now officially a clown; Bozo would look better!


19 posted on 06/30/2009 4:02:29 PM PDT by AZhardliner
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To: Clock King

This is the least of it. We have a Kenyan president.


20 posted on 06/30/2009 4:05:07 PM PDT by Judges Gone Wild (Who is this uncircumcised, to oppose the armies of The Living God?)
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