Sen. Al Franken ... Has a nice, drive-the-wingnuts keerazy ring to it, don't it?
By David Neiwert Monday Jan 05, 2009 6:00amOh, how the wingnuts writhe and hiss at the prospect of Sen. Al Franken ... especially now that it's about to come true:
A state election board on Monday will announce Democrat Al Franken has defeated Republican incumbent Norm Coleman in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race, state officials told CNN Sunday.
The canvassing board on Monday will say a recount determined Franken won by 225 votes, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie told CNN.
However, Coleman's campaign, which contends the recount should have included about 650 absentee ballots it says were improperly rejected in the initial count, has indicated it will challenge the certification.
It's all going to wind up in the courts before it gets settled, but there's little doubt Franken has the upper hand.
I suppose it would be wicked to savor the knowledge that the wingnuts are going crazy at the thought of Sen. Al Franken, and are sharpening their shivs as we speak. BillO in particular, given his history with Franken.
Likewise with Ann Coulter. My weekly e-mail from the Brownshirt Barbie this week featured her shrieking about Franken:
Dear Fellow Conservative,
Last night, I had a horrible dream... and no, this isn't the famous "I Had a Dream" speech. Frankly, I think that one could use a rest.
No, in my dream it was 12 noon, so naturally I tuned in for my daily dose of conservative news and commentary from the greatest political talk show host in the history of radio.
As I imagined one half of a giant brain being tied behind a familiar back, just to make it fair, the familiar bass notes from "My City Was Gone" throbbed, and the announcer's voice boomed...
"Ladies and gentleman... in accordance with Fairness Doctrine broadcasting regulations... here's AL FRANKEN!"
I woke up screaming. But then I realized it was just a bad dream.
Or was it?
Actually, the whole schtick is just a pitch for yet another one of Coulter's imagined liberal plots -- that largely nonexistent scheme to revive the Fairness Doctrine. Coulter's been on a real tear lately in terms of pulling crap out of thin air. But it's worth noting that Al Franken has the ability to make her extra-nutty-kookoo with sprinkles on top.
One can only imagine what they'll be dreaming up for him as a senator.
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Loft a stein to Franken!
It is the Al Franken decade now for sure.
I still don't see Franken as a Senator.
He has never held elected office.
He is not a progressive.
He is a comedian.
He is a Clintonite.
He is a mainstream conventional wisdom globalist neoliberal.
We have plenty of them.
Would you prefer that slimely Repuke dick sucker Coleman?
No. Coleman is a bad man.
But are you saying Coleman is gay, and that being gay disqualifies Coleman?
And isn't that a sexist remark? A slur?
My point is that we are supposed to be electing better Democrats, progressives, forward thinkers.
I do not see Franken doing ANYTHING that is not in the interests of the large corporations that funded his campaign.
He is Hillary Jr.
And don't waste your time cornering me with projectionist bullshit apologizing for that toothless rat Coleman. And of course, you didn't answer my question who would you prefer?
Your complaint is hollow and without alternatives.
That's exactly how I have been looking at things lately. If somebody bitches about something and has no solution then the argument is hollow. However if the complaint comes with a "I don't know how to fix it" (or some other such disclaimer) the sting is taken off of the solutionless complaint.
I said No.
L&L: "Would you prefer that slimely Repuke dick sucker Coleman?"
Leadership: No. Coleman is a bad man.
I answered your question.
YOU didn't answer my question.
But are you saying Coleman is gay, and that being gay disqualifies Coleman? And isn't that a sexist remark? A slur?
Without alternatives??? I am looking for progressives, not neoliberal tools.
I don't mean to talk for L&L but you seem to be debating a straw man. You know and we all know that the point is not whether Coleman is gay or not. I'm curious for some evidence of Franken doing ANYTHING that is not in the interests of the large corporations that funded his campaign.
Read his books he is ALL about the Clintons and the Democratic party.
You can't look at his voting record because he doesn't have one.
The Democratic Party is a FACTION of the MONEY/POWER party that is running this country into the ground.
Better Democrats are what we need.
Give the man a chance...we're already better off.
At least Al Franken has a brain. I can hear that Big Fat Liar Limbaugh moaning like a stuck pig already!
Franken going after Loofa'Reilly qualifies him for something. That fact that he can likely tell a lie from a not lie is a bushel of qualification.
I said that my comment was a figure of speech(because Coleman is a another of those 90% plus Bush supporters). I could care less what poor victim Norm indulges with. I'm done with this...and so is Coleman.
I think this is a whole new world we're embarking on, and the world is a better place for it. Holding elected office is the usual criteria, but it's not the only, nor is it the most important. I predict that Al Franken will be one of the most accomplished, constituent-oriented Senators in modern history, who will work hard for the aggrandizement of Minnesota, and not his granite counter-tops. And he'll be funny as fuck doing it.
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Just a flesh wound.
This is so lovely...The final "fuck you" of 2008 to the ass-backwards Jim Crow Party.
I like the Jim Crow reference.
Perfect.
Are you showing bias against racists? (/sarcasm)
Coulter got one part right, anyway: Limbaugh is operating on half a brain.
is up his ass.
But I give it 48 hours before Harry Reid issues his latest alibi why Senate Goopers will still be running things.
repulsive picture, I am certain that in her dreams, Coulter does more than just turn on "the greatest political talk show host in the history of radio. No doubt she "turns on" other things about him (eeewwwwww!) as well.
Coulter and Limbaugh...a c**t and a blunt
staple that harpies cake hole closed?
whenever and wherever she chooses, just with the title, "GOP Spokesperson" in front of her name.
Every time she speaks, she further sullies the republican party. If she wants to hang them, I'm willing to offer her all the rope she desires.
your idea is better actually, lol!
must be in the dumps over this development.
Can dumps have dumps?
NO "chicken/egg" type questions before noon!
I'm hungover for chrissakes!
I dreamed I turned over and Annthrax Coulter was laying nekkid next to me in bed. Ew.
Senator Franken -- a bit of good news in dark times.
Wait for it...
People will come online claiming Franken is in the backpocket of AIPAC.
Yeah Senator Al! You go!
Please don't mix up Jews and Zionists.
Franken will rival Rahm Emmanuel, Schumer,and the rest of the neocon warmongers who will vote for the US to enforce their Project For A New American Century wetdream. All the while, Israel will only bomb defenseless people like the Palestinians and the unarmed citizens of Lebanon.
Remeber, one of Franken's mentors is Mr.Irvin Kristol, father to "Bloody Bill Kristol" who said, while acting as an advisor to Rudy G., during his presidential campaign, "I want the US to bomb Iran so the US will be hated as much as Israel!"
These are the kind of Zionist nuts we're dealing with. Look out for Franken to be an ardent supporter of goyas (non-jews)going off to wars they dream up, while their offsprings attend Harvard.
Six years of misery for the liver-spotted liar. That's SENATOR to you asshole.
So does Ann have a new book coming out? Seems the only time we hear from her is when she is hawking her own works. Anything that bugs her makes me happy.
I see the Wingnuts are back to normal and seething with inner hatred for everything.
The bleach blond whore took her daily dose of Limp-Dick drugs.
ahhh yes a dash of lies, a sprinkling of coded white supremacist speech, throw in a pinch of rush-limbaugh nutswinging and VOILA!! you have another ann coulter blog entry. i think henry rollins gave her the perfect name when he called her "panzer skank"
lawsuits are over. Just another annoyance to getting things done.
Message to PE Obama: This is how Rethugs work. It will only get worse, not better.
The Repugs are good at getting in the way of getting things done. This should be the topic of everything that comes out of a mouth of a Democrat talking head on TV. "The Republicans are roadblocking this and that and costing the American people jobs/houses/savings/peace of fucking mind."
A piece would give me peace too.
Peace off.
Is it too much to hope for that Al will show up to work on his first day dressed as a Roman senator?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8cmWK1uRu4
Note to Bill O'Reilly: If you want some big ratings, invite Senator Franken onto your show, if you have the huevos. I dare you.
Not sure what good courts will do, I read a report yesterday that said if they took recount all it would give the GOP is another 65 to 111 votes. Math is simple 250-111=139 for Al Franken, it's done.
They'd fight it on principle.
Right...
So, Brownshirt [edited: just don't go there] Barbie thinks that the "I Have Dream" speech is overplayed.
It's overplayed to aspire to be greater person than you are or to live in a country that's greater than it is now?
Wow...
She wouldn't be happy unless she's silenced, forced to become a breeding mare, cook and clean, and treated like a slave.
Stay classy, Annie... stay classy.
...for a Commander's Wife, not a Handmaid. Or a Martha.
Sign-me up.
If the Democrats were worth their salt, they would reinstate the Fairness Doctrine. The Republicans know it would be legitimate and, obviously, fair to reinstate it; that's why they try to insure that Democrats won't reinstate it by constantly accusing Democrats of being about to do it, as though it would be horribly underhanded for them to do so. Unfortunately, the Dems fall for it and yell back, "No, we won't! Quit calling us liberal! We're not!"
Hey, can we just insult her without the misogyny? Get creative, the sexist crap is lazy, boring, and not appreciated.
She uses sex to get her point across, she invokes it, besides I can see her erection through the dress.
Oh boy does it! I will just say that, out of the blue, around the wingnuts I regularly happen upon.
Coulter, well - period. I especially don't like her calling out a Pretenders song by name. I know it's Rush's "theme" although he obviously never listened to the lyrics, but it's still wrong. Chrissie Hynde should kick Coulter's ass for besmirching her work. She already sued Rush and one half a million for charity.
Martina McBride should sue Hannity for the butchery of her song "Independence Day".
Sean's an idiot to think that the song has to do with patriotism... It's about a woman killing her husband and herself (the song alludes that the husband was rather abusive.)
Then again, Martina may be a staunch GOP supporter and doesn't care.
How would ann look in lederhosen?
http://www.unitedmaskandparty.com/theme_party...
Last night, I had a horrible dream... and no, this isn't the famous "I Had a Dream" speech. Frankly, I think that one could use a rest.
Yeah, loving your fellow man is SO 1963.
loving your fellow man is SO 1963.
Now are YOU calling her a trannie?
Is Nathan Forrest reincarnated as a stick figure.
Hilarious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFP32Crv6F4
The famous 'I HAD a dream' speech? Is Coulter really that dumb?
Yes.
When Bill O gets caught in a lie he refers to it as a "mispoke".
Ah, I get it. "mispoke" is simply conservative speak for lie.
The voters have spoken. Norm Coleman is now a senate occupier.
It was Mann Coulter's trick that woke her up screaming when the trick realized he just had a Crying Game experience.
The only thing I fear is that when both O'Rielly and Coulter's heads explode, well, there's going to be an awful lot of toxic waste laying about and we'll have to wait for Obama's EPA to clean it up....
The last thing that the GOP wants in the Senate is a court jester taunting them.
How do you think the American people are going to react when Al Franken starts ripping on the GOP in the halls of the Senate?
I can tell you what is going to happen. The American people are going to laugh so hard that they fall off their couches.
Franken is smart and funny! He'll continually call these hypocrites out on their bullshit while making us laugh.
Fred Grandy and Sonny Bono weren't funny in the Senate
But come to think of it
They weren't funny are their own shows either.
the Sonny Bono song (!!) "Laugh at Me," to no avail...
...who would every now and then get some "pity pussy" because some lonely woman on the ship felt sorry for him....not funny at all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JZ3HBfJVMU
They were funny in the House. It's funny that with all of the Hollywood bashing that the GOP does, they sure loves to vote for them. There are so many GOP office holders and yet on the liberal side all I can think of is now Al.
John Byrne over at Raw is reporting about Media Matters 6000 word rebuke of GOP Spokeperson Coulter's latest book.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Group_finds_mor...
Coulter's just pissed because Al pointed out her bullshit and plagarism in Lying Liars (which I re-read over the weekend, as a matter of fact).
will change Franken more than he'll ever change politics. If he doesn't play by the political world's rules, he will get nothing accomplished at all. 70,000 lobbyists in Washington make up the game and after elected, very few politicians bring about change. They change.
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/?p=8074
"F*CK IT, we'll do it live!"
Franken is a dyed-in-the-wool Israel Firster (unlike Hillary, whose Israel First credentials are every bit as hypocritical as everything else about her) and as such has no business serving in the US Senate.
Having said that, he's a better choice than Coleman.
Geez, what took you so long man?
Mon, 01/05/2009 - 06:42 — ysbaddaden
I do other things besides hanging out on the net.
Franken's (and Hillary's) cheerleading for the Israeli Slaughter of Lebanese Civilians in the Summer of 2006 is what turned me against him (and made me even sicker of her).
.. and I never mentioned "AIPAC" .. I said "dyed in the wool" not "bought and paid for" ..
Are you too an "Israeli Firster" ?
As a skilled satirist, Senator Al Franken thoroughly appreciates all the rich and varied ironies realized by his election. The senator will carry that appreciation, plus his encyclopedic political knowledge to the US Senate, where he will serve Minnesota with a level of distinction and fervor not seen since Paul Wellstone.
I just hope, nay, dream - that Senator Franken makes another appearance on the Colbert Report to do one last staring contest, then end it with a chuckle:
"Well, Stephen, on the other hand, I _actually_ ran for office, and I _actually_ won. How about them apples?"
Everyone at one time or another was new at the JOB the thing is are they willing to learn and seak out good advice. My Advice to Mr. FRANKEN is he or his Family should NEVER FLY in a PRIVATE PLANE, go by TRAIN or CAR, BUSS, NEVER by PLANE, DEMOCRATS AND AIR PLANES are bad LUCK.
And have one of the kids start the car.
Um....is that a threat...?
Maude forbid that a Doctrine be passed that is Fair and requires the corporate media behave in a fair and reasonable manner to the public by requiring them to tell the truth or be called a liar.
Franken is every bit a qualified as macaca Allen or the rest of those dilettantes who have been feeding their friends on the public dime.
Here's a skit idea, free of charge.
Bring in Al as a guest on this Saturday's SNL. Have a "Daily Affirmation" skit with Limbaugh as a guest, and Stuart tries to help him with his Oxycontin habit.
And, somewhere in the skit, Stuart has to say, "...and doggone it, 41.5% of the people of Minnesota like me."
Except for here at C&L. That wasn't Bill O'Reilly's show, and Franken was dead right to ask the chairwoman to 'take control'. As an author, I've been to book conferences before, and as rancorous as some have been, I have never seen discourtesy quite like O'Reilly's before. The arrogance that he seems to feel he can behave like a school yard bully yelling 'SHUT UP!" at the top of his lungs anywhere he pleases is breathtaking.
To Pat Schroeder, of the Association of American Publishers, I can only ask... why? Why have this rude, insensitive, foul-mouthed bully on a public forum? Bad enough anyone publishes his writing. Has the concept of 'entertainment' devolved to that low a level in the States?
I hope Franken does make it to the Senate. If only that it will give O'Reilly a stroke bad enough for him to lose the power of speech permanently.
I think Norm will have his hands full explaining the Tube Stephens style renos he had done at his house.
We only have to turn one repug....with several that are facing re-election in 2010, we should be able to get 1 vote on every issue, including the Employee Free Choice Act.
As long as the Dems are willing to employ political theater (ie, make those insufferable SOBs get up in front of the American citizens and tell us why they're filibustering good/necessary leglislation) and realize that the country needs drastic change, not a little here and a little there...we'll be fine.
Its up to us though, to make sure they have demand for drastic change. Democracy + Citizen participation = Government that works.
4 hours, 15 minutes.
Way to go Al!!!!! Ops. I'm sorry, I mean SENATOR FRANKEN!!! :-D!!!
Eat your heart out Bill O'Reilly!! You lying liar!!! WOO HOOOOOO
I'm pretty sure Bill O's head would pop then.
Looking back at the "BillO vs. Franken" feud on youtube, the only thing I can say is that Al is a much better person than me. The first little Oreilly tantrum he would he would have thrown at me while I was talking, screaming at me to shut up, would have been the last time that his mouth moved without the help of a machine.
How Al managed to not at least kick the chair out from underneath that freak is a level of decency I will never know.
And a level of decency Oreilly doesn't deserve.
Senator Al Franken has a nice ring to it, all right, accompanied by Bill-O and Anndolf foaming at the mouth and falling over backwards! :P
Suppose Franken would lead the senate in one everyday?
real people in office? real people?!?!
With Jesse Ventura, Ron Paul, John Murtha, Cynthia McKinney and a few others you may have a real group of people able to run your country. People who are not twisted by ideology and hate?
Why do you keep electing fucktards who are corrupt and Machiavellian all the time?
Not that I have any particular love of the guy and i always thought he was pretty lame on SNL. I'm sure his speeches are going to be quite amusing.
Personally I'd rather have Senator Robin Williams at least then CSPAN would become entertaining as opposed to just boring or infuriating.
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