Posted on 12/08/2008 6:35:27 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
Republicans are increasingly optimistic that Senate Democrats will shy away from deciding the fate of the still too close-to-call Minnesota Senate race, now that the prospect of a 60-seat, filibuster-resistant majority has been eliminated.
Speculation that the Senate might determine the contest between GOP Sen. Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken peaked after an attorney for Franken suggested in late November that the outcome could be decided by the Senate, and after Majority Leader Harry Reid for the first time publicly raised his concerns that some absentee ballots might not be included in the final count.
But that was before Tuesday's Georgia Senate runoff victory by Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss, a development that dramatically altered the Democratic risk-to-return ratio. While the Constitution allows the Senate to be the ultimate arbiter of who serves in the chamber, there is far less political incentive to intervene now that a filibuster-resistant majority is no longer at stake.
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I’m inclined to agree. I think that Obama doesn’t want this fight, fearing it would cause his legislative agenda to get clogged up. Also, Harry Reid faces unpopularity at home and certainly doesn’t want to damage his standing any further.
If the Senate steps in and hands this seat to Franken over some absentee ballots that sat in a car trunk for a week, the gloves will be off. They will have revealed themselves to be cheaters who will do anything to win.
This is common knowledge on FR, but you would be amazed at the number of people out there in the “real world” who don’t know that the Democrats are lying scum.
You’re correct, but I don’t think they’ll do it. In addition to other motives, many Democrats from marginal and conservative states don’t want to be on record as voting for Al Franken.
Too Bad.
Thats a clown that would of made the rest of them look normal. It would of been fun watching Specter trying to reason with Him.
The RINO , Half Breed and an A$$.
Good TV
No big secret that Harry, Nancy, Dodds, Chucky...et al....are not comfy with this porn star coming to DC......
Mega BS in that statement.
At what time was Franken ever ahead in this race?
A race 'too close to call' would have to be one where the leader was in dispute, here the leader has been and always has been Coleman.
That said, the GOP is too damn stupid to look at it this way and thus will learn nothing from the experience.
Yep. Dingy Harry lost all incentive with Chambliss’s win. Still, he looks all the more a fool for commenting in the first place. The facts of this election are far from lending the race to a Senate determination. Franken’s lawyer is a bigger fool than Franken himself.
“The real issue here is, why did 1/2 the people vote for this clown?”
About 16% of the voters voted for a third-party candidate named Dean Barkley. Many of those voters were anti-Franken Democrats who dislike Bush even more than they dislike Franken.
What gloves do you think are on ?
Unfortunately the Democrat party is going to be governing America for some time to come. The time to take the gloves off was for the 2006 and 2008 elections. The country chose otherwise and elections have consequences. We have just begun to see those consequences with the collapse of the economy.
This is common knowledge on FR, but you would be amazed at the number of people out there in the “real world” who don’t know that the Democrats are lying scum.
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You’re right- it’s like an alternate universe out there.
Senate Dems aren’t going to do anything about MN because they can always count on 4 or 5 RINOs for their support. And like Pavlov’s Dog, McCain, Specter, Snowe, Collins, and Martinez will be right there on que.
“This is common knowledge on FR, but you would be amazed at the number of people out there in the “real world” who don’t know that the Democrats are lying scum.”
No, I wouldn’t. I work with several of them.
I think many Democrats just want Franken to go away. They know that he is a violent, unpredictable, caricature of a clown. His Senate antics would invite an even greater 2010 backlash, so even they don’t want Franken. Franken makes the late Pat Paulsen look like a real candidate.
Surely, Harry ‘you-can-smell-them-coming’ Reid; has lost popularlity for a number of excellent reasons. . .his nose and his sense of smell, being enough. . .if only the least of them.
Which highlights the need for the Republican party to wonder why it could not capture these votes. Seems to me that this should have been a slam dunk. Although I admit to knowing next to nothing about Minnesota politics, I can’t imagine a much weaker candidate than Franken.
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Exactly, but the dems have some in the Senate who aren't dedicated marxists, and they want to get re-elected. So, maybe it's a wash, IMHO.
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