I wish I could respond more, but with the 0 economy I've had to lay off people and do more.
Franken is just the icing on the cake. The radical left has control of the legislative and executive branches and the judiciary is a push at best. It really is depressing.
The Pubs are our best hope that's why it's important to support guys like Sen. DeMint who started SenateConservatives.com. Any contributions only go to conservatives not the Pub party. A 3rd party will not help, it will only improve the odds of Rats picking up marginal districts, or senate races.
So when Democrats get into office they hit the ground running and push full-steam-ahead with their burgeoning socialist agenda, while when Republicans get into office they spend most of their time just trying to undo (or at least curtail) the damage the previous Democrats did.
And if I had to choose, I'd always take a hypocritical sinner who at least is ashamed enough of their sin to hide it over a flagrant libertine who declares his sin is righteous.
At this point it may take a "radical discontinuity" of God to right our listing ship of state.