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Michigander said, 6 months ago

Did they mean bleeep card?
pbarnrob said, 6 months ago

We may not find out until mid-June, at last speculation from the www.MinnPost.com and Jay Weiner.
I was bored with it back in December, but it looks more honest than many many other races lately. Who’s counting those votes, and who’s watching them? Bev Harris over at www.BlackBoxVoting.com tells us it’s NOT us!
harleyquinn said, 6 months ago

I am good enough I am smart enough and by gone it I can steal this election.
If he had a R next to his name you would never stop hearing the cry of he was not elected and so on.
HOWGOZIT said, 6 months ago

Wow–a match for Biden
Anthony 2816 said, 6 months ago

The fate of a filibuster-proof majority…something that will alter the course of our nation…rests on…a former Saturday Night Live comedian.

Harley, pay attention. Franken can’t steal an election that he’s already won. Coleman is the only one in a position to steal it.
fritzoid said, 6 months ago

If it didn’t mean that they’d probably have to give up their shows, I’d be urging Jon Stewart and Tina Fey (rather than that Alaskan knock-off) to enter politics as well. All three are very funny, very SMART, and know how to tell unpleasant truths in a pleasing manner (rather than R. Reagan and W. Bush, who sold us pleasing lies, or R. Limbaugh, who doesn’t even bother to make his lies pleasing).
harleyquinn said, 6 months ago

Sure Jon Stewart and Tina Fey are funny, smart? It does not take brains to read a teleprometr, just look at Prez bo. I mean come on Stewart had to shut down during the writers strike.
harleyquinn said, 6 months ago

Anthony, He may have “won but only by flooding the ballot box and some underhand recounts. Kind of like what gore tried to do in Florida. I am not even going top mention the brain dead Acorn voters that put Obama in office that voted for Frankin also.
Just saying if it was an R instead of a D we would never hear the end of it! But I guess those Chicago style practices are accepted these days.
dtroutma said, 6 months ago

Coleman should stop being a sore loser and play sepuku.
believecommonsense said, 6 months ago

^ Howie! a tip of the hat to you for this comment! and that’s my second hat tip for you today! I’m impressed!
harleyquinn said, 6 months ago

Hey hows it I am not a republican or a dem and I do not play us vs them. I just call them like I see them in the funny papers.
harleyquinn said, 6 months ago

Oh and I don’t care if he has won or not I am just pointing out that If it was an R and not a D things would be different and more like Florida. Proof in the R trying to get me to be dignified and just shut up about it. If it was R and not a D I would have 3 egging me on for more.
I also say if it was not for the acorn driven brain dead voters that put O in Al would not have had a chance.
I never said he should not be seated.
So howie in light of that sure whatever just roll over and not speak of it again..right
Tigger said, 6 months ago

Oddly, the Republicans are he ones crying Foul because the race is so close. The Republicans are the ones who do not want to ‘Get over it’
HOWGOZIT said, 6 months ago

BCS–sorry to disappoint, but the system has let the name ‘HOWGOZIT’ be assigned to two people. I did not address Harley; particularly in favor of Franken.
deadheadzan said, 6 months ago

Looks like a Howgozit conspiracy of sorts. Stewzi checking in with his usual comments about orifices. SOS.
Anthony 2816 said, 6 months ago

More like Florida, Harley?

You mean where the Court handed it to the Republican without the recounts being completed?

If that standard was being applied to Franken, then Franken would already be in the Senate.

But Coleman has apparently decided that Bush shouldn’t have been given the presidency in 2000, and that in this case, the recounts should be done.

Republican hypocrisy at its finest.
believecommonsense said, 6 months ago

HOWGOZIT says: BCS –sorry to disappoint, but the system has let the name ‘HOWGOZIT’ be assigned to two people.
Well that explains the change in tone and attitude! and now I’m not sure who I’ve been making comments to. I wouldn’t like another poster using my handle either … why not consider changing your avatar ?
oldlegodad said, 6 months ago

HOORAY, HOORAY for the first of May, Outdoor luvin’ starts today! and TODAY is my 72d Birthday…but I didn’t get no satisfaction.
lalas said, 6 months ago

So HQ/howgozit/spew where are the links to these stories about box stuffing, stealing etc? You can’t make sh!t up and expect it to fly. This recount was fair and supported by the courts (1/2 of the judges being Reps).

Put up or stfu.
harleyquinn said, 6 months ago

My comments still stands.
1)If it was an R instead of a D then there would be 3 times amount of hopelaw.
2) I do not care one way or another about courts. My comment about put or not put into office is about the idiots who voted in Obama also voted him in, so the courts say.
30 I say courts because I heard about was recount this not that recount this not that and such so on. what ever.
a snl bad actor, failed talk show host,

working for our country?
At least Reagen had played the good guy and worked with animals.
Simon_Jester said, 6 months ago

Uhhhh…Harley?

We ARE hearing the cry that Franken was not elected, and we’re hearing it 24/7

From YOUR side!
NoFearPup said, 6 months ago

Fake HOWGOZIT has probably substituted a lower case “L” for capital “I”. This was done frequently a couple months ago on SOTU. “Real” Howie is profile no.145033; and “fakr” is no.228499.
dwyant said, 6 months ago

The people holding this card are the real jokes!
fritzoid said, 6 months ago

Fey and Stewart are not merely talented performers, they are both talented writers as well. Fey CREATED her show, and sets the tone for everything that happens on it. Likewise Stewart is intimately involved in the writing of The Daily Show. Haven’t you ever seen or heard Stewart going one-on-one with the Shouting Heads? Yeah, both shows have staffs of writers and researchers, and neither could survive without them, but they’re not simply reading lines. And for all of you guys’ comments about Obama’s fondness for the teleprompter, your hero Ronald Reagan was documented to have needed prepared cards to chat his way through a cocktail party!

Fey, Stewart, and Franken all wrote/write many of the lines associated with the characters they play/have played on TV. Their intelligence, wit, and perspicacity are well documented.
LLeRay said, 6 months ago

Happy Birthday, oldie!

Belated, but sincere.
Simon_Jester said, 6 months ago

Actually, for the Republicans these days, Al Franken is looking more and more like a THIS Joker.

http://www.iesb.net/images/stories/posters3/joker-banner_sm.jpg

Why so SERIOUS, neo-cons?
danielsangeo said, 6 months ago

There are Repubs out there that complain about Al Franken being a comedian. Need I remind them that their hero was this guy?

http://blog.reidreport.com/uploaded_images/reagan6-768781.gif
fennec said, 6 months ago

Also, belated Birthday Greetings from me, Oldlego. And like the echo from the past with the 1st of May rhyme…once we were young…
Simon_Jester said, 6 months ago

danielsangeo

Yeah thats’ their hero all right, but who’s the guy feeding him?
cdward said, 6 months ago

Belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Oldie. Hope it was great!
NoFearPup said, 6 months ago

Franken looks like he’s about to cut one…
NoFearPup said, 6 months ago

Careful, Anthony - Your Dems aren’t even advertising the “filibuster” proof majority…They are a little edgy these days…
NoFearPup said, 6 months ago

Since the Cons are using reverse-psychology (euphemistically-speaking), who shall they turn over to the DEMS to give them their majority…Specter’s gone…Lindsay Graham? Anybody have any ideas? Give them their majority then watch them hem and haw for the next three years…
cdward said, 6 months ago

NoFear, that’s certainly a possibility. Let’s hope they show a little more backbone than I fear.
Simon_Jester said, 6 months ago

If that’s true sockpuppy, if THAT was the Republican plan all along…then why are they trying to block Franken from being seated in the first place? Why didn’t they say ‘let ‘em hem and haw’ back in November?

Sorry, but like a collander, your theory won’t hold water.
NoFearPup said, 6 months ago

I’m just saying, in a world of second best choices, they could turn the table on radical Libs and give them complete unequivocal control over legislation, thereby highlighting that the second most hardest electorate to please is the Commie-Liberal Left (or are they the first?)…Satisfying those folks would all but insure Repulican success in 2010 and perhaps beyond. But by the same token the Republicans would have to fix it so nobody would guess that is what they are up to… ;^) No one’s going to set out to LOSE an election if they can help it.
NoFearPup said, 6 months ago

Just who is this Joker?
motivemagus said, 6 months ago

NFP - love to see it, if there WERE any “radical libs.” That moniker is entirely the creation of the conservative talking heads and the GOP. There are no radicals in the US government. Calling a relatively business-friendly compromising centrist like Obama a “radical lib,” as some have here, is simply ludicrous.
The huge amounts of money required to get onto the national stage of our government has pretty well exterminated any chance of true radicals – the only place to get this level of money is generally in the hands of business, which is understandably hostile to radicals. That understanding is what got Clinton elected, and what ticked off so many Republicans about him: he did what they did and cozied up to business, and got great fundraising as a result.
Obama was unusual in that a convergence of issues and new fundraising methods gave him more of a grassroots base than most recent presidents, but at the core he is not in any way overturning our government, he’s simply using it as it has been used before, let us not forget. That was not a “radical” position in the past, and it isn’t now.
Simon_Jester said, 6 months ago

That’s not going to happen, Sockpuppy.

And let me tell you why.

Arlen Specter’s defection is only the latest in a series of fiascos by the Republican Party. You’ve got Michelle Bachmann spouting gibberish about Re-Education camps, the Republican governors who refused Stimulus package funds are all changing their minds, and the RNC chair is facing a revolt over party funds.

That ‘tea-party’ you guys threw two weeks ago has been completely forgotten by everyone, the ‘alternative budget’ Boehner unveiled has been widely dismissed as a joke, and the most visible face of the Republicans right now is one of the most despised men in the country, Dick Cheney.

You’ve Rick Perry and Chuck Norris talking secession for Texas, Newt Gingrich beating up on Sarah Palin, and everyone in the party kowtowing to Rush Limbaugh.

And if that’s not enough, look at what happened when John McCain, Jeb Bush, and Eric Cantor tried to launch that rebirth tour, designed to bring the moderates back into the Republican fold. Here came the neo-cons, with signs reading ‘RINOs Go Home.’

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1895562,00.html

That’s what I have, Sockpuppy. All you neocons have is your conviction that Obama WILL fail…and that conviction is based on nothing more than anger and hatred.
Anthony 2816 said, 6 months ago

Excellent summation, Simon.
lalas said, 6 months ago

Stew – nice of you to link to a couple of likewise unsubstantiated OPINION pieces to prove your unsubstantiated opinion.

The ‘liberal controlled canvasing board’ has two Republican appointees from the State Supreme Court who went 99% of the time in unanimous decisions with the other 3 members.

Despite the contention of your opinion pieces, there is no evidence that the ballots were double-counted. If there were actual evidence then the canvassing board and the 3-Judge Panel would likely have remedied the situation.

The transposed numbers were born out by the ballots and the number of registered voters.

Coleman wants to include rejected absentee ballots that he agreed shouldn’t be counted because the criteria he agreed to didn’t come out in his favor.
fennec said, 6 months ago

lalas, may I just express my hope that you soon have full representation in the US Senate.
Simon_Jester said, 6 months ago

Everyone it seems is a moron but Stew and his fellow neo-cons.

The folks in Minnesota are morons, the people who voted for Obama are morons, the people who believe in global warming are morons, and eveyone who disagrees with him on this forum is a moron.

And his froggy is a moron, and his doggy is a moron, and his dolly is a moron and his goo-goo is also a moron.
lalas said, 6 months ago

Stew you clearly HATE everything about other people… you should just move to some island and get away from everything.
Anthony 2816 said, 6 months ago

Goo-goo?
bell3rose said, 6 months ago

Simon_Jester: spot on!
Simon_Jester said, 6 months ago

Noooo…I said that’s who YOU think are morons, stew.
lalas said, 6 months ago

And Stew… the morons here in MN have their representation in Michelle Bachmann. Go 6th District, you knuckle dragging troglodytes.
LLeRay said, 6 months ago

Cripes, and Bachmann is all over the echo chamber! And I thought the flu stories were overexposure. Is she competing for the Coulter crowd?
Anthony 2816 said, 6 months ago

You’re right, Lalas, the existence of Michelle Bachmann does add some validity to Stewiez’s comments about Minnesotans being morons, though, at least the ones who voted for her. She’s unbelievable.

She recently claimed Franklin Roosevelt turned a recession into a depression through the “Hoot-Smalley” tariffs, ignorant of the fact that the “Smoot-Hawley” bill, co-authored by Republicans Sen. Reed Smoot of Utah and Rep. Willis Hawley of Oregon, and signed into law by Republican President Herbert Hoover.

And she said it interested her that the last swine flu outbreak occurred in Democrat Jimmy Carter’s presidency, when it was actually during Republican Ford’s.

One wonders if she’s really this stupid, or she just assumes anyone stupid enough to vote for her is likely to believe whatever lies she tells.

Given her other beliefs, I fear it’s the former.

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David Horsey has won two Pulitzer Prizes (in 2003 and 1999) for his editorial cartoons, along with numerous other accolades and awards. His work is syndicated to more than 250 newspapers across America.

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