Go Franken Go!
By John Amato Sunday Jan 04, 2009 9:00am
When does Bill O'Reilly's head officially explode?
All told, Franken gained a net of 176 ballots from the 952 under review according to The Uptake's unofficial count, putting him 225 votes ahead in the recount overall. Excluding disqualified ballots, Franken won 53.7 percent of the votes counted today, Coleman 34.1 percent, and other candidates 12.4 percent. Franken's 225-vote advantage is now slightly larger than the one Norm Coleman held before the recount began, when he led by 215 votes based on the certified Election Night tally.
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I predict that the video clip of Bill O'Really's head exploding when he has to say "Senator Franken" will be the most downloaded of 2009!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY-03vYYAjA
Maybe Al Franken could introduce the O'Reilly/Limbaugh Repudiation Act which would resurrect the Fairness Doctrine as a law rather than a more easily disposed of regulation.
Yes! That would be the best news of 2009!
Take down the rightwing barking yaks who defile our nation's airwaves with idiocy and Tokyo Rose style propaganda for the uber-rich, which only confuses the low I.Q. voters.
Bout freakin' time!
Go Franken as in Win...Win...Win?
Or as in go away?
We heard it in 2000 when the right wingers were calling Democrats sore losers. Now they are complaining that Franken is stealing the election. This after the two parties agreed how the votes would be counted, nothing like 2000 where the stupid idiot Sec of State made everything very insane for Gore.
I hope one of his staffer will call Billo, every morning, saying : " Please hold for Senator Franken, he'll be with you shortly", then start laughing histerically before hanging up. Every day, for four years...
n/t
What a fitting end to the election season. Giving the seat of Paul Wellstone to a true progressive voice, one of both wit and humor.
http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2009/01/03/55...
i keep reading the term "formerly rejected absentee ballots"
WHY were those ballots rejected?
The Franken team rightfully challenged; Coleman went as far as the state Supreme Court to keep them from being counted, and lost.
As Al Franken seal the recount in his election.
Just think somewhere down the road. Franken is sponsor of some Senate bill and Al gets booked on the ORielly Factor to discuss the Bill.
This I am waiting for................!
and because Coleman did not want to waste taxpayer money on a recount or challenge... oh boy, this will be fun to watch!
Right Now!
...that the US Supreme Court will step in and save Minnesota and the nation from democracy. Surely, those wily Originalists (Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, Alito, and Kennedy) have at least one more -- "we're doing this to save the country; after today, ignore this decision, it is not a precedent" -type decision left in them. It's pretty obvious to any careful observer that Franken would never have been within a million votes of Coleman if ACORN hadn't cheated.
I'm very happy that Al is going to be a Senator. He will be a credit to the DFL party and the people of Minnesota.
Actually, in a very real way, Franken owes his seat to O'Reilly. It was Fox's law suit over the "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" that put him on the map as a serious left leaning voice. That law suit was instigated (even though the folks at Fox knew it was a joke) to appease O'Reilly. Sales of Franken's book took off after the law suit publicity.
Without the high profile generated from the law suit, the fact Franken's book then went on to become a best seller, Franken would have had a very difficult time getting a toe hold in politics.
I don't doubt that Al got some valuable free publicity from O'Reilly. I have to think, though, that his show on Air America Radio was the biggest factor in getting people to take him seriously as a political figure.
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I cannot wait to see Senator Al Franken go to Congress! I know that idiot Coleman will put up a fight and will try to take legal action against Franken, but let's hope that Franken holds this lead and it sticks!
As far as BillO's head exploding, this is stuff my dreams are made of! Only problem is, BillO will not call him "Senator Franken." If he refers to him at all, he'll call him "Stuart Smalley."
I just can't wait to see what BillO does when Franken wins. In fact, I can't wait to see the comments and heads exploding by all of these bozos, like Coultergeist. A couple of weeks ago, the witch was complaining on H&C about Franken and that he should just quit.
When Franken wins, we can start saying of BillO and the others, "You're bad enough; you're dumb enough; and doggone it, people hate you!"
"When Franken wins, we can start saying of BillO and the others, "You're bad enough; you're dumb enough; and doggone it, people hate you!"
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I'd subscribe to cable for a year if Franken says that in front of a camera!
What's with that witch crack.
My boobs are bigger than anne's
And Imma dude.
Our state senator john cornyn plans to filibuster Franken taking his seat, until some document or another is signed, but that will be the subject of a court case.
And of course the Democrats themselves don't want to allow Blagojevich's appointed Senator to take his seat.
That's two less votes to count on.
Are you trying tell us something?
A man knows he's getting middle-aged when he goes to a topless bar
And finds he has the biggest boobs in the place.
Al Franken is going to make a GREAT senator!
Heh, heh, hehhhhh....
Time for Republicans to do what they do best, cheat and steal the election.
then PISS ON!!!!!!
Got to be better than half of the deadbeats there now.
Somewhere, Jerry Garcia is smiling.
I like him even more now.
The Democrats need to use humor like Reagan did, to disarm the opposition and charm the electorate. Barney Frank has the lines, but his mush-mouthed elocution kind of ruins it.
I do believe so! Namely when some days ago he said "Is not like I coulnd't find something else to do". To me, that meant that he knew things were not going to turn the way he or his buddies planned it.
We had an election night party on Nov 4th and had bottles of Champagne labelled, and popped as specific senate/house seats went to Dems (and ,of course, as the presidential went to Obama). Much bubbley was consumed but the Al Franken labelled bottle of Perrier Jouet was the last remaining bottle. WONDERFUL to open it today. CHEERS everyone!
PS I'll purchase and open a bottle of Dom Perrion when O'Reilly's head explodes. I hope all of you can share that one!
Rush probably threw his bottles of Viagra and Oxycontin across the room in a fit of rage over this one.
....then realizing what he had done dropped on his hands and knees and licked it off the floor.
Franken deserves this long delay ... serves him right for denying the election fraud that took place in 2004 ... how does it feel Franken now that it is happening to you? ... it would be poetic justice if Franken loses the seat due to election fraud ... he certainly can't deny it exist now ...
Al is way better than any of those other f-ed up incumbents
Dem's sum fightin' letters! Are you broadcasting all you posts over the radio?
Wow...I remember as 12 year old watching him on SNL in the 70s/80s when he did that strange Weekend Update commentary of the "This year will be the year of me...Al Franken"
LOL Who'd a thunk...
The skit was in 1989. Al said the the 1990's would be the "Al Franken Decade", making fun of the 1980's often being referred to as the "Me Decade". Here's the transcript: http://snltranscripts.jt.org/89/89iupdate.phtml
OK, so he was off by a decade. Once you get to be over 40, you start measuring time in decades instead of years.
It is a fact, however, that "Stuart Saves His Family" came out in 1995, and it was the windfall profits from this low-budget movie that made his books, Air America Radio, and the Senate race possible.
I thought the 80's were "the Al Franken Decade"; the seventies were definitely "the Me Decade". I think the last thing he did regarding "Decades" was naming the 90's the decade for his son.
Al Franken could be the most important Senator in D.C. Imagine him skewering the GOPbots about their hypocricy, all without breaking a sweat, and leaving those pasty faced nazi's looking like the imbeciles they are.
It makes me think of the movie, "Mystery Men". There is a suspicious death referenced in it where the cause of death was, "falling on some bullets at the bottom of an elevator shaft".
I'm so happy that Al wins!
Mr. Franken a little Advice for you and FAMILY, NEVER FLY in a PRIVATE PLAN, my Advice is never FLY, take a TRAIN. DEMOCRATS and Private Plains ARE bad LUCK.
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