Franken Heads to Senate, Bolsters Democrats' Hand

The Wall Street Journal ^ | 06-30-09 | NAFTALI BENDAVID and GREG HITT

[GOP_Lady]

Minnesota Court Confirms Razor-Thin Election Win, but Party's Filibuster-Proof Majority Is Vulnerable to Internal Fissures.

WASHINGTON -- The Minnesota Supreme Court cleared the way for Democrat Al Franken to become Minnesota's new U.S. senator, ending a festering eight-month election dispute and giving the Democrats a 60-seat voting majority in the Senate.

The court on Tuesday unanimously upheld Mr. Franken's margin of 312 votes out of 2.9 million cast in November's election, giving him the seat that had been held for one term by Republican Norm Coleman. Mr. Coleman conceded at a news conference at his home two hours later, saying he would heed the court's finding.

[GOP_Lady]

Democrat Al Franken smiles as he meets
the media at his home in Minneapolis,
June 30, 2009, after the Minnesota
Supreme Court ruled Mr. Franken won
the Senate race against Republican Norm Coleman.

[GOP_Lady]

If you can stomach it ...

Video and Interactive Graphics at the link.

Good luck!

[GOP_Lady]

Isn’t ONE PARTY rule great?

It’s a TOTAL DISGRACE that a man like this was voted into the United States Senate.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"It’s a TOTAL DISGRACE that a man like this was voted into the United States Senate.

Obviously "voted into" should be in quotes in your statement.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"Isn’t ONE PARTY rule great?"

There will be no doubt who is to blame.

[Marathoner]

Well, hell’s bells, he’ll fit right in to that freak show.

[ElayneJ]

The democrats must be proud.

[ought-six]

An obscenity. No other word describes what this is.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I cannot believe that the people of Minnesota elected an idiot like this. Wait, yes, I can. They also voted for Obama.

[skeeter]

Bolstering the democrats’ mouth, more like it. And diminishing their collective IQ.

[omega4179]

Thank God he was not around for that PORKULUS Vote.

[wardaddy]

doesn’t make much difference really

we would have better luck with Baucus and folks like that than Snowe or Collins

[Non-Sequitur]

It’s a TOTAL DISGRACE that a man like this was voted into the United States Senate.

The other 99 aren't any prizes either.

[TheConservativeParty]

Franken (D-ACORN)

Stole that from another thread.

[wardaddy]

and folks bristle when we Dixie folks complain about crazy Yankees moving down here

no offense to decent NORTHERNERS...it must suck to be stuck with em

[Who is John Galt?]

I used to admit to having been born in Minnesota. No longer - any State that can elect a complete @ss-clown like Al 'The Diaper' Franken to national office (where said @ss-clown can piss on the rest of the people in the country, in addition to the numb skulls in Minnesota) does not deserve my recognition. You want him as dog catcher, or sewer sweeper, or governor, fine. You deserve what you get. Send the @ss-clown to Washington, and force him on the rest of us, and we're done...

;>)

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Soros really went after Coleman hard. What most people don’t understand is that Coleman was a fierce critic of the UN and globalist policies so he had to be taken out. I predict MA and WV will appoint two younger Rats to replace Kennedy and Byrd sometime after the recess.

[WOBBLY BOB]

[AIM-54]

I cannot believe that the people of Minnesota elected an idiot like this. Wait, yes, I can. They also voted for Obama.

Don't leave out those whose egos compelled them to protest the GOP failures by sitting the election out.

That too, has consequences and now we get to reap them.

[yield 2 the right]

It is officially over for our side......Obama will now be TOTUS for life.....just my paranoid thoughts...