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.Whats it?
IT is EVERYTHING.
2010 midterms:
- if unemployment is still worse than when Obama took office, its their fault
- if GDP is still falling its Democrats fault
- if every American-EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN and most illegal aliens-dont have the same high-quality/free medical coverage as Barack Obama its their fault
- if Iran has nukes or is still pursuing them its the Democrats fault
- if Pakistan is still on the brink its the Democrats fault
- if Mexico is still on the brink its the Democrats fault
- if there is still war in Afghanistan its the Democrats fault
- if American troops are still in Iraq FOUR YEARS after promising to end the war its the Democrats fault
- if there is a budget deficit its the Democrats fault
- if there is a single pork spending program in ANY bill its the Democrats fault
- if America is still dependent on foreign oil its the Democrats fault
the list goes on. We can debate who caused what and how (and its ALWAYS a bi-partisan source), but the fact is that Democrats have unchecked power now, and should be able to do everything theyve promised. If not, its 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 ...
Simply relying on the Democrats’ owning failure will not win the GOP a single election.
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.
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.
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.
You nailed it!!!!
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???
The fact that a disgusting reprobate like Al Franken is a US Senator speaks volumes about how far our country has fallen.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Iran has the Basij, the socialist/democrat party has ACORN and thousands of dead people who voted to thank.
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.
If we do nothing, we will be a turd world country..
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
They’ll be blaming Bush for the next Billion years.
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.
This will have to go to another level to have any affect at all.
Presidency: Stolen.
Senate seat: Stolen.
What's the trip wire that starts getting ACORN members introduced to lamp posts?

I was thinking the MJ media orgy but you could be right.
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.
All that the Senate needs is just one more comic!
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...
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.
We are facing a time of real crisis, and what do we get but a comic.
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.
If voting mattered, they wouldn't let you do it.
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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)
...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.
LOL-he sure does!!
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.
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