Tuesday, June 30, 2009
THEEEE Democrat WINS
is how Yankee radio baseball announcer John Sterling would call Al Franken's extra-inning victory over Norm Coleman.
Now we have to wait while Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid in a spirit of bipartisanship begs Repugs for permission to seat Franken, & asks them which committee assignments Al gets.
Al's coin toss win in a state Obama carried by 300,000 shows that independent Minnesotans had reservations about electing him over an incumbent. He had a tough primary, too. But Al will be a fine senator.
Al will be on the senate judiciary committee for the Sotermayor SCOTUS hearings. In 1991, he played a United States Senator in an SNL skit during the Clarence Thomas hearings
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
Now we have to wait while Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid in a spirit of bipartisanship begs Repugs for permission to seat Franken, & asks them which committee assignments Al gets.Al's coin toss win in a state Obama carried by 300,000 shows that independent Minnesotans had reservations about electing him over an incumbent. He had a tough primary, too. But Al will be a fine senator.
Al will be on the senate judiciary committee for the Sotermayor SCOTUS hearings. In 1991, he played a United States Senator in an SNL skit during the Clarence Thomas hearings
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