The Next Senator From Minnesota?

The liberal media hates themselves some Ann Coulter. Awe!!
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http://gawker.com/5124041/liberal-media-wont-help-poor-ann-coulter-plug-her-book

Greenwald on the two senators response to the Panetta pick-
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Spencer Ackerman reports that Sen. Dianne Feinstein is upset with the selection of Panetta, petulantly complaining that she wasn't consulted in advance and that it would be best to have an "intelligence professional" in that position. CQ's Tim Starks reports that Sen. Jay Rockefeller is making very similar noises about this selection. Few things could reflect better on Panetta's selection than the fact that Feinstein and Rockefeller -- two of the most Bush-enabling Senators -- are unhappy with it.

"Petulantly?" He'll want that word back.

lk312 @ 12 said: Well, Al Franken is good enough, smart enough and doggone it, people [in Minnesota] like him!
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A fellow Minnesotan reminded me Coleman lost both of his full-campaign elections, one to Jesse The Body Ventura and now to Saturday Night Live comedian Al Franken. The only national election he's won was the one-month, lackluster campaign against stand-in Fritz Mondale after the death of Wellstone. Is there anything left of his ego?

EDIT: "...lackluster campaign BY stand-in Fritz Mondale..."

MS, I am your most staunch defender and fan. This complaint may seem petty, but why do you always post multiple blogs at one time when I am still trying to catch up on previous blogs on Swamp? Why don't you space them out a little?

Al Franken is good enough, he is smart enough, and doggonit, people like him. And Rush is a Big Fat Idiot.

File under: Are you f**king kidding me.
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Restore the Senate's Treaty Power
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By JOHN R. BOLTON and JOHN YOO
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/opinion/05bolton.html?_r=2

gunny, I fall down laughing. That is a hoot. Yoo and Bolton discoursing on the rule of law and the role of the Congress. Did they take a remedial legal course after leaving the Bush syndicate?

"Did they take a remedial legal course after leaving the Bush syndicate?"
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Either that or they were both fast traked through the re-education camp.

Dear God I'm so glad I wasn't on lunch and eating when I read that. My chicken taco salad tastes too good to heave up at that dreck Gunny. It was almost Wonderlandish, where in the Hades do they get off saying they WANT to restore Congressional power after eight years of systematically undermining it?
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On topic, bully for Al. Norm Coleman would be a weasel but that would be an insult to weasels. At the very least the courts will be rather loathe to upset the apple cart of the Canvassing Board's work (one should hope) and Al should have a certification by the end of January. Unless Pawlenty turns major slimeball and decides to tell the voters to politely phuck off cause he ain't signing off.

Sorry, but this is extremely bad news. Franken is not competent enough to be in politics. He's a joke -- and I mean this in the worst possible way. I supported Obama all the way, and I also wanted the Dems to win as many seats as possible, but this is one race the Dems should have lost, for their own sake. Franken was a zero in his previous attempts at a career, and now it'll be taxpayers for his mistakes.

Werner Patels@37: The qualification and competency questions always confuse me. A commenter cliams someone is not qualified or competent, but then fails to give any evidence or support for such a claim. So let me help you out here with some facts. I'll list Franken's bio, and you point out wherein the evidence lies of his incompetence or disqualification:
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Franken was born in New York, the son of Phoebe G. Kunst, a homemaker and real estate agent, and Joseph P. Franken, a printing salesman.[9][10] Franken had a Jewish upbringing[11] and grew up in St. Louis Park, a suburb near Minneapolis. He is a cousin of MSNBC's Bob Franken.[12] His older brother, Owen Franken, is a photojournalist. Franken attended St. Louis Park High School until the 10th grade. He graduated in 1969 from The Blake School, where he was on the wrestling team. He attended Harvard College and graduated cum laude in 1973 with a bachelor of arts degree in general studies. In 2003, Franken served as a Fellow with Harvard's Kennedy School of Government at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.

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Again, which part here decries his ability to run and serve? If nothing I've supplied meets you needs, perhaps you could supply us with something else to support your statement.

Werner Patels:

Have to disagree with you. First Franken is a very well respected comedy writer. He was one of the original Saturday Night writers 1975-1980 during the best years of SNL. He received 7 Emmy nominations and three Emmys for television writing and production. He returned for 10 years from 1985-95 as both a writer and performer. Lorne Michaels wanted him to succeed him as SNL head producer in 1980. I hardly think that qualifies as a zero. I don't have an Emmy in my bookcase, do you?

Anyway it's on to the Senate. The guy is crackerjack bright and can use humor to defuse situations. He has an astute political mind and probably will make a great Senator. Will he rub some the wrong way.. I am sure the Republicans will hate dealing with him, as he is likely to chew them up in deabtes. Expect to see him on many of the political talk shows showcasing Democratic positions and countering Republican positions.

@37 - Sorry, gotta disagree with you. Franken works hard to understand issues and isn't just a jokester. I don't expect him to be a big mover and shaker, but from the way he did the hard work to get elected I think he has a clear understanding of what this job is. He'll be as good a Senator as Fred Thompson, anyway.

ugh - "At worst he'll be as good a senator as Fred Thompson was, anyway."
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PREVIEW, dammit!

[...] letters addressed to "Limo for a Lame-O.") Ignore the hilarious Franken scene from Trading Places, posted below, which climaxes with a gorilla raping a man, or the 1995 skit he kicked around at SNL that would [...]

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