Therefore, as a matter of public relations the Democrats need only contrive some plausible argument which they know will be reinforced by the media and then they can go ahead and sit Franken. Evidently, Majority Leader Reid has already told the troops that they have such an issue. If they do that there is no appeal to any court, except the court of public opinion.
That the Republicans are impotent to prevent an injustice in Minnesota is only emblematic of the disaster which is a fallen the Republican Party, largely I believe as a result of their own fecklessness starting with the head feck, George Bush, and trickling all the way down to Duke Cunningham and our favorite Senator in Alaska. Too bad that Stevens did not win that election because it might have caused the Democrats to fail to seat him and put them one more step down the path toward overreaching and perhaps made it politically more difficult for them to fail to seat a second Republican Senator. At any rate, we Republicans are impotent to effect the results and can only appeal to the Court of public opinion. Unfortunately, after we exhaust talk radio we have no pulpit and no effective spokesman to plead our case. But Plead our case we must and in this instance we do have some pretty good arguments to make. Coleman is a solid conservative than a decent man and Al Franken is at best a clown and at worst a criminal. Rush Limbaugh should have some fun with this one.
The Democrats might not risk overreaching in this instance, figuring they can summon the necessary 60 votes by collaring the one needed Republican rino such as either of the two ladies from Maine, Arlen Specter, maybe Voinovich of Ohio, Lindsey Graham and John McCain on some issues, and God knows who else. It should not be hard, after all, with the media beating on them like a drum.
We so desperately need a spokesman who can get the attention of the media or at least force the media to pay attention so that he can provide some cover to our senators. If anyone thinks that Michael Steele is that man, he simply does not understand the kind of personality required for this job. We need a barn burner and a bomb thrower in public and a Rahm Emanuel/Harold Iches behind-the-scenes.someone who knows enough to take a knife to a knife fight and will not shrink from using it. Michael Steele can play neither role.
Does anyone see any evidence whatsoever that the Republican Party will not continue sleepwalking into the third election in a row?
