The American Spectator : Al Franken's Blue Ball

Al Franken's Blue Ball

By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. on 7.2.09 @ 6:09AM

WASHINGTON -- The Minnesota Supreme Court has now ended months of vote fraud and other assorted acts of skullduggery to pronounce Al Franken winner of the state's 2008 senatorial race over Republican Norm Coleman. The process was unseemly, and it is conceivable that the court's justices merely acted out of civic pride. They did not want Minnesota's U.S. Senate races to attain the sort of notoriety attached to aldermanic elections in Chicago or presidential elections in Iran.

Mr. Franken is an admitted clown. As such he will be the only admitted clown in the United States Senate, though he will be seated with such clownish figures as Senator John Kerry and Senator Harry Reid. Perhaps his desk will be near that vacated recently by Senator Larry Craig, the lavatorian-conservative now thankfully retired, perhaps to found an intellectual journal for his lavatorian movement. A good title might be, Bathroom Beautiful.

Upon hearing of the court's decision, Franken joked that he was "thrilled and honored by the faith that Minnesotans have placed in me." That is not a very funny joke, but Franken is not funny. By "Minnesotans" he is probably attempting irony in referring to his supporters on vote canvassing boards in several left-leaning counties who turned up a sufficient number of thitherto uncounted votes to give him the edge.

In the November 4 election Coleman won by 725 votes. After a recount he still won by 215. Then Franken's "Minnesotans" got busy canvassing. They demanded that votes once disqualified in their counties be counted. They found thousands of absentee ballots previously rejected for such indelicacies as fabricated addresses. Coleman cried foul and asked that one statewide standard be applied to all recounts. However, he got nowhere with this plea for equal protection of the law, and in the meantime Franken's larcenous operatives picked up 1,350 more absentee votes, some bearing the names of pop singers. Ultimately Franken's team managed a 312-vote victory from the 2.9 million votes cast.

The Wall Street Journal was not alone in its judgment that "Mr. Franken now goes to the Senate having effectively stolen an election." The Journal reminded Republicans that this is not the first time in recent elections that Democrats overturned an apparent defeat by sending swarms of lawyers and operatives into a state to find once-discredited ballots and claim victory. They practiced the same trickery in 2004 in the state of Washington's gubernatorial race wherein the winning Republican had mysteriously come in second after a third "recount."

In the aftermath of the Minnesota Supreme Court's decision Franken deadpanned, "I won by 312 votes," and he went on to josh, "So I really have to earn the trust of the people… of Minnesota, and let them know -- not just by my saying so, but by my actions -- that I'm going to be working for every Minnesotan" -- another humorless joke. What work he will do he did not say. Possibly he will sweep the floors of the Capitol or pick up litter on its lawn. His service in government has been nil. Yet how much service in government has our president had? Increasingly the Democratic Party is the party of personalities, though Franken's personality is markedly weird.

He was weird on Saturday Night Live in the 1970s where he popularized a goof-ball character named Stuart Smalley, a self-help guru who repeated over and again, "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me." The audience laughed. Using lines not a lot more sophisticated than that, he campaigned for the Senate. My guess is that the Stuart Smalley character is the essential Al Franken, a weirdo.

I experienced his weirdness first hand when I appeared as his guest on a talk show he hosted for "Air America," the Liberals' feeble effort to create an alternative to conservative talk radio. At the time, he was an impassioned opponent of the 1990s' "Clinton-haters," so impassioned in fact that he could have been called a "Clinton-lover." Apparently aware of The American Spectator's role in exposing poor Bill Clinton, Franken asked me how I had passed the 1990s, obviously expecting me to boast of my crimes. I stepped around his loaded question, and with my trademark self-deprecating wit (reminiscent, I am told, of JFK) rolled a handball across the desk from my microphone to his, saying merely that I played a lot of handball during Clinton's years of public embarrassment.

Franken went ballistic. "What is this," he said holding the little blue ball in his hands and seething. I moved on to other subjects and not surprisingly he lost control of the show. After I departed he remained visibly perturbed. In fact three hours later a friend of mine observed his leaving the studio with the ball still in his hand as he snarled about it and my insouciance toward him. Do you remember the controversy created by Liberals with their unsubstantiated allegations of UN Ambassador John Bolton's temper? My prediction is that Franken will not get through his Senate term without anger management counseling, and the Liberals will cover for him.

From a review of his simple-minded utterances on the campaign trail with regard to issues, it is apparent that he is not a consistent thinker. He will disappoint the liberals. If they can keep him mad at Republicans, they will have his vote. But if he calms down, anything might happen.

Letter to the Editor

topics:
U.S. Senate, Voter Fraud, Stolen Elections

drudge ette obama| 7.2.09 @ 6:32AM

Al Franken has come home. He's with friends.

What will be his first inquiry when he is in the hallowed halls? "Where are the changing rooms?"

Sorry, Al. Ask Arlen Spector and Byrd where they change theirs. And so sorry, Al, diapers aren't a congressional perk. But you will be able to use my tax dollars to pay your employees' student loans off and get free haircuts.

drudge ette obama| 7.2.09 @ 6:39AM

Great story about the handball and Al. Handballs should be part of every public appearance with Al. The sight of one might send him over the brink. Send one to Al. He's the new loose canon. Did anyone else notice that his wife mouths words for him when he talks? It's really strange.

Kitty| 7.2.09 @ 6:42AM

A grown man who made a living wearing a diaper on TV is now a senator. I would think even the Democrats would be embarrassed by him. The fact that they aren't speaks volumes.
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Melvin| 7.2.09 @ 7:17AM

Kitty, I hate to tell you there are lots of men (Octogenarians) in the House and Senate who wear diapers, so I Al is in good company.
He is good to go as long as he knows where the changing room were some intrepid staffer can change and powder him.

ccc| 7.2.09 @ 7:39AM

The terrible thing is that this exact same problem happened almost 10 years ago, thereby electing another clown to high office by judicial decree, and a reliable system of voting/polling has yet to be put in place.

SC Mike| 7.2.09 @ 7:48AM

He’s the perfect pick for the Judiciary Committee where he’ll take over the seat that Wyden’s been keeping warm for him. He’s got big shoes to fill now that Biden’s moved on to bigger things.

J. Kelley| 7.2.09 @ 8:00AM

In any election where the Republican does not win by at least 10 thousand votes, the Democrats are going to steal that election. And in the meantime they accuse the Republicans of repressing the vote. Now they have teamed up for with ACORN to steal the election before the vote takes place. Not a good thing.

Grzmlyk| 7.2.09 @ 8:15AM

We have entered the era where every election won by a Republican (and there will be precious few now that ACORN has been institutionalized as Obama's SS) will be contested by the Democrat, and every contested election will be overturned in favor of said Democrat. Count on it. ACORN and its ilk have learned the lessons of 2000 well.

Democrats hold the levers of power across this country in local politics, for it is liberals - not conservatives - who in ever growing numbers gleefully enter a life of "public service," whereas sane conservatives tend to carve their paths through the private sector. With George Soros-type money and 527s blooming everywhere designed to ensconce liberals forever in the driver's seat, we are screwed.

So even when a Republican successfully runs the gauntlet to run for any office higher than dog catcher, the dice are utterly loaded against him even if he manages to win. For libs, a local Republican victory isn't the end of an election; on the contrary, it's merely the opening salvo in a war in which they know they can outgun Republicans handily.

Elections ought to be relegated to the status of mere rituals as far as Democrats are concerned, public coronations that simply affirm the axiom that it is Democrats who will provide the government teat to constituents without ever so much as an interruption in the flow of taxpayer milk.

The game is utterly rigged now, Chicago style. When we continue to run feckless lapdogs like Coleman, who slink away politely into the dark night of oblivion without ever raising as big a ruckus as possible - this should have gone to the Supreme Court, and his gracious concession sickened me (would Franken do the same? HAH!) - we deserve our fate.

On this and all other hot-topic issues of the day, the Republican party time and again cedes the fundamental argument to the Dems and therefore always loses.

Mitch McConnell whines about the fact that India and China aren't included in the Cap-and-trade ripoff and therefore carbon emissions won't be substantially reduced. Earth to Mitch: The way to win this argument is not to concede that carbon emissions have to be reduced, it's to expose global warming as the Marxist takeover it is!

Republicans will not deserve to win if we continue to allow Democrats to define the game, draw the boundaries, make the rules and referee the competition. We MUST sidestep the mainstream media and gain control of a portion of the national dialogue - not sit at the Democrat table with our heads hung low and expecting praise simply because we say "please" and "thank you."

Fox News, talk radio and a handful of conservative publications are not enough. We simply MUST enter the milieu of mainstream culture. THAT is our challenge.

Otherwise, the outcomes in Washington and Minnesota are simply the first drops in the coming deluge.

JP| 7.2.09 @ 8:49AM

"We have entered the era where every election won by a Republican (and there will be precious few now that ACORN has been institutionalized as Obama's SS) will be contested by the Democrat, and every contested election will be overturned in favor of said Democrat. Count on it. ACORN and its ilk have learned the lessons of 2000 well. "

Of course, one way to fight such tactics is for the GOP to contest every loss no matter how ridiculous thier claims. If they lose by 500,000 votes in NY, they just need to simply hire a team of RNC funded lawyers, slcik PR reps, and bloggers. The Dems need a taste of thier own medicine.

NavyBrat| 7.2.09 @ 8:53AM

Frankenstein will become an albatross around the necks of the Dems. As Mr. Tyrrell & others have pointed out, he just can't help himself. The "insert foot in mouth" syndrome is gonna be damn near EPIDEMIC in the Democreep party. We can only hope that this one party tyranny hangs itself with its own rope. Frankel will be to the Senate what Biden is to the white house... the gaffe master. And WITHOUT the muzzlers of Axelrod & Emmanuel to keep him in check. Even if they tried, do you really think Frankenstein would listen?

ccc| 7.2.09 @ 8:59AM

It's hilarious how much people whine and cry about conspiracies when their beliefs temporarily lose favor with the electorate. Just a few years ago Republicans were riding high and declaring an age of permanant republican majority had arrived. Sure Bush ran that into the ground as fast as he could, but Obama is in many ways Bush's disciple (underqualified and overwhelmed) and will devastate the democrats soon enough.
There is no vast left wing conspiracy, republicans simply tend to forget that you need to get the most votes to win the election.

ds80| 7.2.09 @ 9:02AM

Yep, Al Franken - once and always: a joke.

This is the Democrat Party. Tee hee hee! So fun to watch. How will he distinguish himself in the Senate? Will it be buffoonery? Slapstick? What a nice opposite bookend to Obama's inexperience.

Grzmlyk| 7.2.09 @ 9:03AM

Hi JP:

I totally agree - if only as a pro forma exercise it's overdue and we have got to stop making it easy for these criminals to use this country as a personal ATM.

But since it's Dems that comprise the army of precinct footsoliders (and, thanks to 527s, increasingly occupy the Secretary of State's office) and therefore control the voting precincts and oversee recounts, we won't be able to employ the prime directive that serves them so well: "Recount them until we win."

Unlike Democrats, Republicans respect truth and the rule of law. Dems believe the end justifies the means, and they are happy to lie, cheat, steal, pilfer, purloin and extort in the service of the "higher truth" of social justice.

Which of course is itself an utter falsehood; because the true answer to any question you pose to a liberal is this: POWER.

SC Mike| 7.2.09 @ 9:07AM

The GOP needs to:
- close primaries in every state where they can so that the opposition can’t directly influence who wins;
- establish reasonable ID requirements for registration and casting ballots for all elections; a “reasonable” requirement would be that required for employment, Form I-9;
- establish reasonable verification requirements absentee ballots at the state level; Minnesota’s are rather a joke, but that state’s voters need to change that.

grzmlyk| 7.2.09 @ 9:07AM

ccc, give me a fricking break. "You need to get the most votes." Hey, guess what? COLEMAN GOT THE MOST VOTES, fool.

As for conspiracies, do maggots engage in conspiracy when they consume the rotten flesh of a dead animal? No they do not. They just do what maggots do.

And maggots have infinitely more integrity than democrats intent on feasting on the rotting corpse of our representative republic.

Grzmlyk| 7.2.09 @ 9:16AM

SC Mike, those are good recommendations - but the zeitgeist is moving in exactly the opposite direction: Illegal aliens will be able to vote, motor voter will eventually pass and whenever Republicans raise the issue of a voter actually having to suffer the indignity of proving their identity at the polls, we get cries of racism and discrimination - which doesn't even make the most rudimentary sense in terms of logic.

But again, we haven't been able to drive a stake through the heart of voter ID or immigration for 25 years; we keep giving ground an inch at a time until the enemy's flag is planted in our camp. Which is the classic Republican strategy.

Now that "Hispanics" - a racist term invented by Democrats in order to corral disparate people into a convenient container, by the way - have become a bloc constituent group, and now that Democrats have successfully established the ruse that illegal immigration is somehow in these people's best interest - we are screwed.

This newly-minted voting bloc has already been trained to line up at the trough of government largesse, and with the borders wide open, deluge will only grow and the fraud will only continue.

Ryan| 7.2.09 @ 9:33AM

Frank(en)ly, I'm a little glad that Franken prevailed. I'm hoping that he's the straw that broke the camel's back for the American people - he's a rude, outspoken, vulgar incompetent (think Kucinich with a temper) who is going to embarrass the Dems and MAY even be lucky to last his entire term.

I'm waiting for his first emotional-ridden outburst tantrum to get public when he doesn't get his way.

Brad| 7.2.09 @ 9:42AM

@SC Mike:

ABSOLUTELY!!! to #1. "open" primaries are merely an invitation to the Dems to screw with the GOPs process. Just look at how they manipulated their own, with Obama ops dominating and engineering "victories" in their caucuses. But that stuff shouldn't have mattered - if Johnny Mac weren't the Repub. nominee, .... the man very much responsible for his own defeat (i.e. through "Campaign Finance 'Reform'") What a joke. With this kind of crap, it makes me wonder when I'm going to wake from this nightmare.

"Amen" to grzmlyk. Dem = maggot.

Louis Jenkins| 7.2.09 @ 9:44AM

Just what we need! Another comedian with bad material in the District of Criminals. But let's be honest with each other, can he do any worse than those jerks have done since Jan.?

ccc| 7.2.09 @ 9:45AM

Grzmlyk, check your references. Franken received 2887802 votes and coleman received 2887490 votes. Which means Franken received 312 more votes than coleman.
It was a close race and therefore confusing. Maybe the republicans will be motivated enough to work a bit harder next time, or maybe not.

v| 7.2.09 @ 9:50AM

Closed primaries do seem to make more sense. But those would have messed up Limbaugh's plans to screw with the democrat primaries last year (operation chaos). In any event due to secret balloting and the unenforceability of voting covenants the difference is probably not significant.

He won| 7.2.09 @ 9:52AM

Ccc, even the Miami Herald, which is not exactly a right-wing rag, finally admitted that Bush truly won the 2000 election.

Last fall, Dem/Libs vowed to have teams of lawyers standing by to challenge voter fraud during the election. But when Obama won, they all vanished. Funny -- when their candidate wins, they're happy with the voting record. When their opponents win, it's suddenly time for investigations and lawsuits. Feh.

Teleprompter Messiah| 7.2.09 @ 10:08AM

Do we really want Cook County to be the example we emulate in America?

As for Franken, Minnesotans have 5 and a half years of the Franken ego trip to go. As Disraeli said, getting the government you deserve.

Bobsledd| 7.2.09 @ 10:13AM

We have ceased to be a serious nation of deep thinkers ,educated men and women and the leaders of the free world.
We have become a shallow nation of celebrity adoration and we vote into office buffoons and radical demagogues, not "leaders" who have the "nation's" interests at heart, but rather, narrowly defined special interests..
It will take awhile to dig out of this hole.
Rule #1 when finding oneself in a hole:
STOP DIGGING

Bo| 7.2.09 @ 10:55AM

In most places the post-election night deleting of Coleman votes, the newly "found" ballots for Franken, and the blatent bias of the SOS would have been explored by the media. Just not in Minnesota where the hostile lefties have more control than most. I wouldn't worry about this happening in most states.

Tom| 7.2.09 @ 10:56AM

"The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."
Quote from Joseph Stalin
Applied by ACORN

Kent Lyon| 7.2.09 @ 11:15AM

Can we now say that the Democratic Party is officially the Frankenparty, and the US Senate the Frankensenate? When Al loses his cool, and his anger leads him to a food fight, will it be with Frankenfood? Sorry. And I won't quit my day job for the stand-up circuit.

Michael O'Donoghue's Ghost| 7.2.09 @ 11:26AM

Somewhere, I'm not laughing.....

WJ| 7.2.09 @ 12:09PM

My question is what is it about Minnesota voters that they would elect a clown in the first place? Why was this election even close?

Are the majority of voters (did not say all voters) in Minnesota stupid or blindly obedient to anyone with a "D" next to their name?

JeffW| 7.2.09 @ 12:26PM

I'm gleefully awaiting the time for Al and Barney to disagree over something. It should be hysterical.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O'Rourke

Tony in Central PA| 7.2.09 @ 12:28PM

At least in Iran they protest crooked elections. Maybe we ended up with the government we deserve.

Jamie in Las Vegas| 7.2.09 @ 1:47PM

Kitty: "A grown man who made a living wearing a diaper on TV is now a senator."

When did Al Franken EVER wear a diaper anywhere, let alone on TV? If you're talking about the stupid bunny-ears picture, that is a PhotoShop job. This takes the cake for gullibility.

Kitty| 7.2.09 @ 2:24PM

And yet it's so easy to believe it of him.
...

rdman| 7.2.09 @ 2:25PM

I smell the "STENCH from the BENCH" in Minnesota. And all you Marxists can thank ACORN... the means justify the end with these corrupt street thugs. Welcome to the Banana Republic of USA, folks!!!

Memo to lefty weirdos, socialists, marxists, so-called progressives, wild-eyed liberals, useful idiots, phony wrestlers, SNL clowns:
Want to get elected into government?? Easy... just set up camp in Minnesota... its quaranteed!!

Jamie in Las Vegas| 7.2.09 @ 2:30PM

Kitty: "And yet it's so easy to believe it of him."

Why? What has Franken ever done that would make people believe that he dresses up in diapers and bunny ears, and likes teddy bears? I am having a really hard time figuring out a) what the joke is supposed to be; and b) why you have an easy time imagining it is true. Personally, I wouldn't ever imagine such an image. Maybe conservative humor eludes me?

JeffW| 7.2.09 @ 3:43PM

Jamie,
Maybe just humor eludes you? It is obvious you support him (or at least it appears so) and granted he may not have worn a diaper or bunny ears but he is well known for being a little "off". Even some liberal papers in Miami of all places are saying that something doesn't smell right about that election. Time will tell if he is a idiot, inept, or actually represents the people of Minnesota well. From his stint on Air America and the circus that was I wouldn't put all my chips on him if I were you.

JeffW| 7.2.09 @ 4:39PM

Jamie,
Check out www.Frankenlies.com and see if you still feel the same about him

PCP Smoker| 7.2.09 @ 4:47PM

What was the significance of the little blue ball? Why did he go ballistic?

Griff in MN| 7.2.09 @ 6:06PM

ccc,
Grzmlyk meant to say, "Coleman won the greatest number of LEGALLY CAST votes.

Jeff | 7.2.09 @ 6:35PM

HAHAHA I love how EVERYONE else(including Norm Coleman) acknowledges Franken won the race. Then I come to the American Spectator and see this. What the fuck is wrong with you guys?

Mike from Kansas| 7.2.09 @ 7:24PM

The childish behaviour evident in this piece of "journalism" demeans you and the entire conservative movement. It also unfairly insults the open and fair recount process in an American state. No wonder you will wander in the political wilderness for the next generation.

mike| 7.2.09 @ 7:54PM

I'm afraid Franken wouldn't know anything about handball. It's physically demanding and I doubt Franken does anything more strenuous than lifting a fork.

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Joe B| 7.2.09 @ 8:45PM

Well, now that he's a public official we can publish books calling him a pig and a liar. Let's get a real hatchet job and probe his personal past down to the last male prostitute he bought during a bi-curious moment when he was in college. Let's also attack the character of his wife. Is she really a man. I think she might be. Then there's the separated at birth motif: is he really Mickey Dolenz's epilectic twin who was put up for adoption. Etc, etc. Start shoveling filth onto this ass clown SOB.

William| 7.2.09 @ 9:04PM

Just wait for the election fraud in 2010.
I predict that out of every 100 Americans, the Republicans or real conservatives will get 55 votes, but the Democrats will get 90 votes.

lynnrockets| 7.2.09 @ 11:34PM

Will you folks just face it. The Republican brand is damaged goods that nobody wants to buy. I noticed that this article failed to mention that that the Supreme Court ruled "unanimously" in favor of Franken. No dissent.

Seems to me, that I remember an election in 2000 that was stolen when the U.S. Supreme Court halted a re-count. Hmm, payback is a
b _ _ ch.

Conrad Spiracy| 7.2.09 @ 11:50PM

ccc,
I offer you an opportunity to establish your bona fides.

Can you tell me the Constitutional issue that was at stake in Florida during the 2000 Presidential election?

If you cannot, then you have firmly established your complete illeteracy and ignorance.

You have 7 days to research and respond. If you can't figure it out, then you are just another ignorant, knee-jerking, stupid, irrational, deluded, kool aid drinking, lazy, mother's-basement-occupying jerk off.

Get a life. Get a job. Get an education. Get a mind.

Con Spiracy

JeffW| 7.3.09 @ 9:13AM

Lynnrockets,
Your comparing apples to oranges. It was the State Supreme court that gave all his seat. For Bush it was the federal Supreme court that handled the matter. If you can't even keep your state and federal apart how are we supposed to take your political opinions seriously????

JAWilson| 7.3.09 @ 9:31AM

When will the Republicans learn to counter the liberals theft of elections with effective legal tactics and teams of lawyers as ready and the liberal lawyers ?

ben dover n'grabim| 7.3.09 @ 10:15AM

JAWilson makes an excellent point, where is the Republican legal team? As an attorney, I can confirm, that before the presidential election, there were emails sent through Bar associations asking for assistance to challenge any election results that did not favor BO (the man, not the dog). ACORN being BO's new SS is not a totally accurate comparison, the SS came later, it was the Brown Shirts who actually did all of the dirty work to seize power in G-many. Many of the same personality types are in Acorn.

Tim| 7.3.09 @ 10:21AM

No King's Rule is complete without it's Court Jester.

Should make the 2010 US elections a No Brainer!

Joe Schmudlap| 7.3.09 @ 10:22AM

Stuart seems much like Dan Rather, Olbermann (who admittedly is a drooling, booger eating moron), and BO; on the edge, just on this side of sanity and ready to explode at the slightest provocation. Remind him of his place in the Senate and just how he got there; that he owes his seat to the legal team that put him there. Write to him as a liberal democrat, and remind him that he's expected to be BO's towel boy in the sauna, do what he's told, say what he's told to say, and respond by saying "thank you sir, may I have another?"

KyMouse| 7.3.09 @ 11:10AM

The title of Franen's book "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot" proves how rapier-sharp his wit can be. He's the role model for third-graders everywhere.

KyMouse| 7.3.09 @ 11:11AM

Franken, I should have typed. I was temporarily stunned by his wit and wisdom.

Grzmlyk| 7.3.09 @ 12:42PM

ccc:
Very amusing. Actually, I flew to Minnesota last night and counted the votes myself - and I promise I didn't cheat.

Coleman actually received 2,887,894 votes; Franken received 2,887,206.

As any fool can see, 2,887,894 is a higher number than 2,887,206. That means Coleman won.

What, you think my numbers are suspect? You don't believe me? Shame on you! I told you I was being honest. Isn't that enough?

Just like Democrat precinct workers, I SURE, were honest when they tallied the votes knowing one of the candidates (Franken) was a cog in the Democrat gravy train assembly line and the other(Coleman), tries to put brakes on the gravy train.

But I'm sure that didn't impinge on their "fairness" one iota.

By the way, Lynnrockets, contrary to your legal opinion, contesting the outcome of an election doesn't mean it's legal for democrats to keep "recounting" until they win. That's called stealing an election.

Bill Pearce| 7.3.09 @ 1:07PM

Gentlemen consider the following ::::

If Acorn can generate apparently legal ballots at will with the aid of census data then
Senator Al Franken may become the far-right wing of the Democrat Party.

catladyjan| 7.3.09 @ 1:54PM

That's the dems, pop culturists all the way......no morals and no scruples! Time for a revolution.

Marc Jeric| 7.3.09 @ 4:06PM

I was full of comments on this latest election steal when I read what "Grzmlyk" wrote - and he said it all. So the only thing I want to add is this: "community organization" in the defunct USSR (thanks, RR) was "soviet" or, in some of its satelites "block committee". ACORN brownshirts are getting stmulus money ($9 billion) to organize more such voter frauds. With them in charge of the 2010 census we will soon have 90% sozi-nazi-commie majorities in Congress (and courts as well).

Howard Hirsch| 7.4.09 @ 12:27AM

In 2004 I was a delegate to the GOP convention in New York. On the second night I just sat down in an aisle seat when Al brushed by me. He was covering the convention for Air America.

I introduced myself and, in the interest of being a good host and not giving him any ammunition, made some small talk about St. Louis Park, MN, where he grew up and I lived for three years in the 70's. I also made the observation that there was a sizeable contingent of our fellow members of The Tribe in attendance, and that not all of us subscribed to the liberal agenda.

His response was (presumably referring to the orthodox garb many wore) "Yeah, but the Jews here are real Jewey-looking".

Al, there's an event in Eveleth that needs your attention. Why don't you take a private aircraft so you can get there sooner?

Ed Minor| 7.4.09 @ 12:47AM

It's time for revolution in this country. Our forefathers are rolling in their graves at what the Liberals are doing to it. What's it going to take? Obama has taken over GM, fired a private citizen and is now creating a pay czar to set wages. It's time to get locked, cocked and ready to roll.

billy| 7.4.09 @ 5:25AM

Politicians need a history lesson.
Why did we cut ties with England?

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bluecollarbytes| 7.4.09 @ 8:46AM

Franken-helpers took post-election ballot stuffing to new heights. I expect More, not less confusion in future elections. Obama and his Democrats rely on confusion and 'crisis' to retain power. To be fair, most professional Republicans seem to allow it, since it's so hard to stand against it.
all imho

Jeff| 7.4.09 @ 2:01PM

I have to laugh for the Republicans, most of just can not deal with the reality that they have no real leaders and are the laughing stock of the public. So now you target Franken and bitch and moan that you all lost the election. Well we had many years of the Republican dominated policies that have lead us to this economic crisis so fess up and admit it and now go and remake yourselfs to a party that is for the people and not just big business and conservative Christians.

emo| 7.4.09 @ 2:03PM

As a former Minnesotan, the positive thing that comes out of this is that MN can no longer look down its nose and sneer at the rest of the country. MN is now as dirty as Louisana

I Conner Klast| 7.4.09 @ 4:34PM

Recall that Bozo the Senator didn't get 50% of the vote, a good reason for a runoff system. As bad as this is for America, try to imagine how Minnesotans, even the Bozo ballots, feel.

Calliope| 7.4.09 @ 10:10PM

And then think back to 2000 Florida, I'm sure they would have loved a runoff.

Lynnspin| 7.5.09 @ 2:13AM

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Franken is nuts like most democrats. Can't wait for the hilarity to ensue. Damn, what losers.

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I didn't realize there was still a republican party..

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Dirtier. Jindal has done an incredible job cleaning up Louisiana.

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Franken is proof positive that the Peter Principle works. The problem for the US is that he reached his greatest level of incompetence waaaay back.

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