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Democrats Now Own It All Now That Franken Has Stolen The Election
Flopping Aces ^ | 07-01-09 | Curt

Posted on 07/01/2009 8:43:27 AM PDT by Starman417

Not a whole lot to be happy about with this win by Franken but at least now they own everything. They have a filibuster proof Senate. Either everything they have whined about for the last eight years gets fixed or they are outright liars. Scott said it best in the comments:

DEMS OWN IT NOW.

What’s it?

IT is EVERYTHING.

2010 midterms:

the list goes on. We can debate who caused what and how (and it’s ALWAYS a bi-partisan source), but the fact is that Democrats have unchecked power now, and should be able to do everything they’ve promised. If not, it’s their fault for misleading, and their supporters’ fault for believing the people who have lied and misled this nation and the world so grossly since 2002.

(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: 111th; bho44; democrats; filibuster; franken; supermajority

1 posted on 07/01/2009 8:43:29 AM PDT by Starman417
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To: Starman417

Simply relying on the Democrats’ owning failure will not win the GOP a single election.


2 posted on 07/01/2009 8:46:16 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: Starman417

The last time the Dems had such a majority in the House and Senate, Ronald Reagan was elected president in the very next election cycle.


3 posted on 07/01/2009 8:47:58 AM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: WayneS

WE MUST DESTROY ACORN AND EXPOSE IT FOR THE FRAUD IT IS. IF WE DONT GET ACORN UNDER WRAPS, SAY GOODBYE TO ALL LEGIT ELECTIONS.


4 posted on 07/01/2009 8:50:10 AM PDT by Def Conservative (Obama is a joke.)
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To: Starman417

ACORN did their job, and they’ve been rewarded with hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars by BO.
MN thinks it’s just fine that they are represented by a real clown now. How special. People should tell Swedish jokes instead of Polish jokes.


5 posted on 07/01/2009 8:50:25 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: Def Conservative

You nailed it!!!!


6 posted on 07/01/2009 8:52:37 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: WayneS
As bad as everything was in 1980 the GOP still couldn't take control of the House.

With the swearing in of Franken the coup in America is complete. We are entering 16 months of darkness until the 2010 election. Then, who knows???

7 posted on 07/01/2009 8:53:02 AM PDT by Russ (Repeal the 17th amendment)
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To: kittymyrib

The fact that a disgusting reprobate like Al Franken is a US Senator speaks volumes about how far our country has fallen.


8 posted on 07/01/2009 8:53:04 AM PDT by Astronaut
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To: Starman417

There are moderate and liberal Republicans who vote with the Democrats almost as often as they vote conservative. Snowe and Collins of Maine being the prime examples but 8 Republicans also joined with the liberal Dems to pass cap and trade last week.
Obama and company will have their RINO fellow travelers.


9 posted on 07/01/2009 8:53:22 AM PDT by jamese777
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To: Starman417

Franken is the final straw-a piece of crap third rate comedian.The Senate is rotting from the inside-Boxer,Feinstein,Whitehouse,etc in addition to this abomination.Maybe Franken can hire the same charter company that flew Wellstone around.
Obama and his minions have declared war on the average American with this cap and trade bill.Now it’ll be illegal to sell your house unless you spend more than it’s worth “renovating” it.I am sure the select few like Bill Ayers will be exempt from the bill,along with the rest of the leading Obama cronies.
Henry Waxman is not a human being-he is a misshapen amphibian.


10 posted on 07/01/2009 8:53:45 AM PDT by steamroller
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To: Def Conservative

Absolutely! I think that sometimes we ought to use ACORN’s tactics, and say..show up outside Barney frank’sn house with lagre demonstrations, or confront apparatchiks when they’re out on the town on our tax dollars.


11 posted on 07/01/2009 8:54:49 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Starman417

You know, “It’s the democrats’ fault” isn’t going to cut it when we’re all living in a 3rd world totalitarian shit hole.


12 posted on 07/01/2009 8:54:50 AM PDT by agooga (Struggling every day to be worthy of their sacrifice.)
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To: Starman417

It is HARD to believe that Coleman lost to Al Franken, after winning both the election AND the first recount! But, the Dems kept counting, and counting, and COUNTING...till they were ahead! THEN they froze it.


13 posted on 07/01/2009 8:54:52 AM PDT by 2harddrive (then)
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To: Starman417

Iran has the Basij, the socialist/democrat party has ACORN and thousands of dead people who voted to thank.


14 posted on 07/01/2009 8:54:53 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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To: Starman417

The big story is the stolen election. We’re losing this war all over the country. So for those of you anxiously looking forward to 2010 and 2012, when we’ll turn the tables on them, you better wake up to the fact that our elections are so corrupt right now, we may have no chance. Regardless of how many more votes we generate.


15 posted on 07/01/2009 8:55:00 AM PDT by raptor29
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To: agooga

If we do nothing, we will be a turd world country..


16 posted on 07/01/2009 8:55:40 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: WayneS
Reagan was elected when their was not a Marxist dictator in charge and voter fraud was not as prevalent. It is a new ball game, without rules. For the most part the GOP hasn't got a clue.
17 posted on 07/01/2009 8:56:38 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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To: Starman417

Minnesota Judges cheated the voters because Democrats weren’t going to win on the actual vote count, so they depended on a recount that allowed 25 counties more votes than registered voters, and

Democrats would not have won on honestly stating their ideas

Sotomayer isn’t the only Judge that should be impeached immediately


18 posted on 07/01/2009 8:57:56 AM PDT by Son House (President Ă˜bama Turns His Back On The Oppressed During Their Darkest Hours)
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To: Starman417

They’ll be blaming Bush for the next Billion years.


19 posted on 07/01/2009 8:59:51 AM PDT by divine_moment_of_facts (There is no Far Right.. There is only Far Left.)
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To: Starman417
Obama and the dems never came out against the Iranians stealing the election.

The dems came out against killing the citizens objecting.

( Well they came out against killing them in the streets where it could be seen and posted on the Internet... )

So, I have to assume it means if we object to this election being stolen, they won't shoot us in the street.

20 posted on 07/01/2009 9:01:21 AM PDT by GOPJ (Duke University official offers to SELL a black five year old for rape parties & the MSM looks away?)
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To: raptor29
Mr. Obvious, I want to thank you. The elections are corrupt and virtually beyond repair. Has anyone noticed the elections in Iran...Hussein's complacent stand and the deaths of citizens who protest? And if the average American thinks that elections are “the chance to make a change” they are very mistaken.

This will have to go to another level to have any affect at all.

21 posted on 07/01/2009 9:02:21 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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To: steamroller
To me Waxman looks like the pig-human creature in movie The Island of Doctor Moreau.
22 posted on 07/01/2009 9:05:00 AM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: Starman417
This is a poorly-written farce which could only be playing in a government-educated, Democrat-controlled theater of the absurd.

Presidency: Stolen.

Senate seat: Stolen.

What's the trip wire that starts getting ACORN members introduced to lamp posts?


A verbis ad verbera

23 posted on 07/01/2009 9:05:20 AM PDT by Costumed Vigilante (Congress: When a handful of evil morons just isn't enough)
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To: Starman417

24 posted on 07/01/2009 9:05:54 AM PDT by TheCipher
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To: Astronaut
The fact that a disgusting reprobate like Al Franken is a US Senator speaks volumes about how far our country has fallen.

I was thinking the MJ media orgy but you could be right.

25 posted on 07/01/2009 9:06:36 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (zer0 is doing to capitalism what Kennedy did to health care)
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To: Starman417
I want to repeat this post from one I posted earlier. It illuminates the problem we face. Since I posted this piece, I've been wondering how I would present my information to our Secretary of State Sam Reed. I will see him personally soon and I will have my ducks in a row.

Since March, I have headed a phone survey of voters in my legislative district. Our project included the calling of all voters who were not identified with party affiliation for 140 precincts in our district. We finished this project the early part of June.

Keep in mind that the voters in our county will be all voting by mail in all elections from now on. We just had our first all mail elections recently to elect our county elections board supervisor. Guess who won the election? The Democrat.

We have called over 4,000 of these unidentified voters. About 10% of the voters we called were not at the address listed in the calling list we received from the Secretary of State. These lists would give the phone number, the address, the voters and the age of the voters at that address.

When we found a voter not at the address, we would question the person we reached on the telephone. We asked if the person listed at that address had ever lived at that address. We asked if they always had the same phone number and how long they lived there. One person said that they lived at the same address for 30 years with the same phone number. The person we were calling for had never lived at that residence. This happened over and over.

Just thought my fellow Freepers would like to get some first hand information about how bad it is.

26 posted on 07/01/2009 9:07:55 AM PDT by jonrick46 (The Obama Administration is a blueprint for Fabian Socialism.)
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To: pnh102

All that the Senate needs is just one more comic!


27 posted on 07/01/2009 9:08:02 AM PDT by tessalu
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To: raptor29; All
It's almost as if... FOX was created by Murdoch for the INTENT of creating a bogeyman... That would allow all other MSM outlets to brazenly lurch leftward...

For the past 10 years, they've pointed to FOX as a "conservative" outlet, and justified their leftist propoganda as a counterbalance... I'm never one for conspiracy theories, but something major is going on here...

28 posted on 07/01/2009 9:08:37 AM PDT by NYC Republican (This Too Shall Pass- in 8 years.. how much destruction will they create?)
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To: agooga

You’re right...it’s the brain dead “Independents” that gave us a Democrat majority. And the Republicans who sat at home because Coleman wasn’t conservative enough.


29 posted on 07/01/2009 9:09:17 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: tessalu

We are facing a time of real crisis, and what do we get but a comic.


30 posted on 07/01/2009 9:10:29 AM PDT by tessalu
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To: Def Conservative
SAY GOODBYE TO ALL LEGIT ELECTIONS

Goodbye..

As America slips into 2d World status, i.e., European socialism and Islamic creep, the one party ruling class will continue to blame the misery, shortened life spans, and degraded living conditions of the masses on corrupt capitalists and right wing zealots. We all laughed at communist/socialist/fascist show trials of perp walking "officials/dissidents" being tried for betrayal of the "peoples trust." We won't be laughing soon..

When enough people attempt to shake off the shackles of tyranny, they may succeed only to find the political and economic landscape so stark that recovery to anything NEAR what we had 40 years ago will be daunting; one only has to look to Russia to understand how the Proletariat will have even less when, in 70 years, the blinders are removed. Without a capitalist infrastructure, the education to foster a work ethic, and a stable economic investment base, crime becomes rampant and resources end up in the hands of robber barons.

Those alive today will not live long enough to see our children climb out of this pit; our children's children may. My only real concern in this whole mess is whether or not future generations will glean enough from their recent history to squash the liberal, libertine, and Statist animal when it again raises its seductive head.

31 posted on 07/01/2009 9:18:23 AM PDT by Thommas
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To: gathersnomoss
And if the average American thinks that elections are “the chance to make a change” they are very mistaken.

If voting mattered, they wouldn't let you do it.

32 posted on 07/01/2009 9:29:30 AM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: Thommas
"Goodbye."

---------------------------------------------

Take the children and yourself
and hide out in the cellar.
By now the fighting will be close at hand.
Don't believe the church and state
And everything they tell you;
Believe in me, I'm with the High Command.

Can you hear me,
can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running,
can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me,
can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running,
can you hear me calling you?

There's a gun and ammunition
just inside the doorway;
Use it only in emergency.
Better you should pray to God,
The Father and the Spirit,
Will guide you and protect from up here.

Can you hear me,
can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running,
can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me,
can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running,
can you hear me calling you?

Swear allegiance to the flag,
Whatever flag they offer;
Never hint at what you really feel.
Teach the children quietly,
For someday sons and daughters
Will rise up and fight while we stood still.

Can you hear me,
can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running,
can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me,
can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running,
can you hear me calling you?

Silent Running
(Mike and the Mechanics)

33 posted on 07/01/2009 9:37:33 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Think Of It As Evolution in Action)
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To: Starman417

...and now that a Soros-funded campaign has made a joke of the Senate by electing a comic.

The original tally was fraudulent. Anyone who has seen how that’s done but still had common decency should have called for a new election. That includes the SOS, Pawlenty and the MN SC.


34 posted on 07/01/2009 10:20:02 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Fili et Spiritus Sancti.)
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To: WayneS

LOL-he sure does!!


35 posted on 07/01/2009 6:07:46 PM PDT by steamroller
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To: raptor29
The big story is the stolen election.

Let me emphatically tell you - the election was NOT stolen. What people are completely missing (most notably in the Wall Street Journal article from yesterday) is that the main reason why Coleman lost is due to his own screw-up. When the Minnesota Supreme Court issued an (erroneous, not following state law) decision to allow both candidates to review the rejected absentee ballots, it allowed them to agree as to which ballots were wrongly rejected. Coleman stupidly agreed to a more expansive basis for including ballots. Bye-bye lead. That's what made up the margin for error.

36 posted on 07/02/2009 7:31:02 AM PDT by GreatOne (You will bow down before me, Son of Jor-el!)
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