Dear Mr. Jack Cafferty

uhmm... what did it mean when a B-Movie actor had their finger on the nuclear button?

Uhmm the balance of power? That was decided in 2006.

Since when is any one particular Senate seat different than the others?
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The balance of power is determined by all 100 seats not any particualr one.....

There is also a comedian deciding the balance of power within the GOP. Keep up Jack.

There are many "unintentional" comedians in the Senate.

Rush. I'm sorry. Hope I didn't take to long to say that.

Al Franken is no Clint Eastwood, Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Fred "gopher" Gandy, or Sonny Bono.
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That is for sure.

Good comedians (which Franken is) tell truth to power in one way or another. Not a bad qualification for the senate.
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And what all the rest of you said, too. God, we're good.

p-luk: I was going to post almost the same thing before I hit the comments button.

I guess you had to be first to point out the obvious, as P-Luk did. But would Mr Cafferty care to make the case that Al Franken is somehow an embarrassment to an institution that currently plays host to Jeff Sessions, Jim Inhofe, John "Box Turtle" Cornyn, Saxby Chambliss, Roland Burris (what? Me? Partisan? Pee-shaw!), Kit "Oh, that's iced tea, dear...." Bond, David Vitter and Jim Bunning.
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To say nothing of various other imbeciles, closeted homersexuals, nitwits, drunks, halfwits, racists, lackwits, fornicators, addlepates, bribe-takers, lunatics, secessionists, segregationists and plain and simple maroons of recent and historical vintage? Rick Santorum, Larry Craig, Ted Stephens....

"What does it mean that a comedian will determine the balance of power in the U.S. Senate?"
That this is a free country where people from any walk of life have the right to run for public office?

It means that CNN should take the hint and replace Cafferty with a comedian.

"To say nothing of various other imbeciles, closeted homersexuals, nitwits, drunks, halfwits, racists, lackwits, fornicators, addlepates, bribe-takers, lunatics, secessionists, segregationists and plain and simple maroons of recent and historical vintage?"
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Come now, Jim, a little more respect for the Time staff.

Did Cafferty see that clip of Rove rapping?

My American Heritage Dictionary doesn't define "addlepates" but it's now my word of the week. It does have an entry for "Congress: see also; off-Strip Las Vegas entertainers" and uses many of the other words Jim noted...

"What does it mean that a comedian will determine the balance of power in the U.S. Senate?"
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That the clowns there now are going to be angry.
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This has been another edition of simple answers to simple questions.

i take offense to that. now a joker i won't dispute, but a comedian is a step too far.

KT: You didn't give us a captioning contest picture for the weekend but this is every bit as good. Thank you. The next time the republicans rebrand themselves, the pizza's on me.

The next time the republicans rebrand themselves, the pizza's on me.
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Is the Swampland wine bar gathering morphing into a pizza party? I mean 53 and Pirate Wench and I are in the real Washington, but this honestly doesn't sound like a half-bad notion...

yutsano: There's a "real" Washington? Seriously? If they lose many more seats you're going to have to redefine reality because even now, they want no party of reality. It hurts. Oh God, it hurts. Like Rush says..."Take 14 of these and call me in the morning".

sacred - th' REAL Washington be th' State, me lad !

It be soundin' like a pizza party, me hearties - anywhere along th' shores o' th' Puget Sound!

An'... What be it meanin' tha' a comedian will be determinin' th' balance o' power in th' US Senate?
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More importantly matey,
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Wha' be it meanin' tha' a bunch o' algae-brained morons be determinin' th' "news" in th' MSM?
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Arrgh!

pirate wench: I meant no disrespect toward the great state of Washington. I thought we were talking about the cesspool where the turds and the toilet paper play tag all day.

yutsano - a pizza party be a right fine notion, true, but I do be preferrin' me spirits, truth be told - so I be needin' some brew wi' me pizza.

sacred - in th' REAL Washington, tha' be happenin' only 'round th' sewage outfalls o' Tacoma, me bucko!