It's about time!

A good consolation prize out of this is that Normie has lost whatever credibility he had left with a large majority of Minnesotans. There has been speculation that he'd run for governor or some other office, but the Coleman brand seems like a pretty hard sell after the way this recount played out.

Now we can stop paying him and he can look forward to some campaign legalities that have been waiting for the election to officially end. I don't expect to see that turd in politics any time soon, especially federal politics. If MN wants him they can have him.

I certainly wouldn't want to be the person who draws the short straw at the FOX News studios and has to clean up the mess O'Wrongly will leave in his wake. It's almost worth watching to see him completely lose himself to spittle flecked invective the first time he has to say Senator Al Franken.

Almost.

Al Franken is now a United States Senator.

Repeat that a few times. Preferably out loud.

Senator. Al. Franken.

Oh, and that sound you hear in the background? That's O'Reilly's head exploding. Hope someone has a mop ...

Now we shall see whether Senate Dems continue to hide behind the "we don't have 60 votes" excuse. The Nelsons, Lincolns, Bayhs of the world should always vote to bring something to the floor where they can strap on a set and actually vote for or against something. But, I am not holding my breath; Ted Kennedy and Robt Byrd are still ailing and not in Washington. So, I expect the magic number to continue to elude...

If Franken has a sense of humor, he'll announce that he's changed his mind after getting fed up with all the "political bullshit", and doesn't want to be a senator after all.

Now when we say Congress is a joke, we'll be referring to the only professional comedian in either house.

It'll be interesting to see whether putting the former Stuart Smalley into high elected office damages the Democrats in the coming election cycles.

First Jesse Ventura and now Al Franken. Hmmm... Minnesota, here I come!

God, I wish someone would show up at the press conference with a satelite dish on a harness.

Congrats, Senator.

Let's get a jump on the inevitable:

Fuck Lieberman.

HAH-ha! [/Nelson Muntz]

As I said in another thread, props to Coleman for ending the charade. But I wonder if he did it to provide cover to Pawlenty, who does have a political career to worry about.

One side effect of Coleman's concession is that Governor Pawlenty doesn't have to cater to the right-wing GOP base by refusing to certify Franken's electoral victory, making him look like an extremist and thereby derailing his presidential aspirations. (Certifying Franken's victory without a Coleman concession would also ruin Pawlenty's presidential chances, as an enraged GOP base would deny him the nomination.) Makes me wonder if at least some of the pressure on Coleman was from GOP bigwigs who wanted at least one potential presidential nominee who wasn't Sarah Palin.

Wait a minute. I thought "The long national nightmare" was the Bush/Cheney administration. You know, "the light at the end of the tunnel has now been turned back on" with the election of Obama.

This was just a rather painful interlude. Or maybe a bad daydream.

Now I am going to have to honor a promise I made to God 8 months ago and go to confession. I haven't been in 20 years. That is going to take some time, but I am so happy about this I will keep my word.

Sen. Franken may be coming on board, but Sen. Edward Kennedy and Sen. Robert Byrd are still on the inactive bench. The Democrats will need resignations before they will have an active sixty members. Of course, there are still the Democratic Ego Party members like Ben Nelson to ride herd on, which Nevada Cowboy Reid doesn't seem up to doing.
oldswede

I'm so happy!! It has taken way too long, but hurray at last!!

Al Franken is going to be a great senator. He's smart enough, he's good enough, and doggone it, people like him. Plus he's going to be a funny and insightful voice in the Senate, a forthright liberal. We've needed this.

Developing, breaking news: when did CNN first mention the Minnesota Decision?

They skipped the entire press conference, deciding to cover (for the 50th time today) the events at the Apollo Theater. They also updated us on Sanford.

How long did it take "The Situation Room" to actually report on something important?

Gregory: But I wonder if he did it to provide cover to Pawlenty, who does have a political career to worry about.

I think so, yeah.

t, you're a Buffoon. You and Coleman both.

Al Franken makes more sense when he is joking than Boehner, Cantor, McConnell, Palin, Limbaugh, and Co. make when they are being "serious".

Who would you rather have a beer with, Stuart Smalley or Ann Coulter? Even if Stuart doesn't drink?

Repeat that a few times. Preferably out loud.

Senator. Al. Franken.

Oh, yeah!

Regarding NC's future: Coleman lost the metropolitan area, except for the Bachmann-infected northwest suburbs, by a significant margin. He was trounced in St. Paul, where he was mayor for two terms, in both his Senate campaigns. It's hard to imagine he has the heart to enter another campaign so soon, and the unanimous court verdict isn't gonna help him.

Tim Pawlenty's "no taxes" governance has decimated state services so he's borrowing billions from future budgets. Does Coleman want a job administering the bankruptcy proceedings and apologizing for the damages GOP orthodoxy is causing? Lastly, it's pretty clear Mrs. Norm (who barely lives with him, but has never been inclined to do a "Jennie Sanford") received a substantial "salary" for a part-time "insurance "consultant" job for which she had no professional license. Minnesota's Norm- and Tim-lovin' MSM have ignored the story. The FBI is non it, and Dems should probably be rooting for Coleman to get into the governor's race to insure the GOP continues to look compromised and hypocritical. I'll place my bet that Norm prefers to be stay a lobbyist, keep his head down, and make some serious ching for a few years.

Great- the clown party has finally managed to seat one of the great buffoons of all time.

Meanwhile, the Grand Old American Values Party still support a governor who is now arguing that getting to 2nd or 3rd base with other women doesn't
count as anything particularly wrong.

Can Norm Coleman run for governor in South Carolina?

Following up on tomj comment about CNN: CNN is ignoring Franken's speech now! Pretty clear they want Fox's audience and are conceding MSNBC's. Al looks and sounds great, as usual.

Oh Steve, you are so trusting and maybe naive about the Process and our, er, "friends" the Republicans! Really, THE LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE ENDS? No, I don't think so, not yet - there is so much more mischief they can pull out of their asses. And of course, even if Franken is allowed into the Senate, he will be reviled, protested against, etc. by hordes of militant, bug-eyed dittoheads etc. orchestrated by the king of poop and his ilk.

Whoops, now they've got All on live, but interrupts to go to talk about what it really means, immediately contradicting what Al just said about th "60 seats" and specualting about what it "means." Hopeless.

Senator. Al. Franken. Whose political hero is Paul Wellstone. ACES and comprehensive health care just got another advocate in DC.

MatthewRQuarreler @ 4:37
"It'll be interesting to see whether putting the former Stuart Smalley into high elected office damages the Democrats in the coming election cycles."

You mean like the B-movie actor who appeared in 'Bedtime for Bonzo'. I wouldn't get my hopes up to high.

"You mean like the B-movie actor who appeared in 'Bedtime for Bonzo'."

Oh come on, Reagan was a better actor than anyone thought. He played the role of president for eight years, and everyone believed it. So don't diss his acting skills.

Hurray for all the wasted money on the GOP side. I sure hope they're responsible for Al Franken's legal bills as well. The more those conservatives waste their money on losing matters, the better to country will be.

Okay, somebody has to say it and I guess it's going to be me.

He's good enough, he's smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like him!

T-Rex: too late, I said it @ 4:33 on the 'Minnesota Supreme Court: Franken won' thread.

Nyah,
-Z

Cya Norm.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75yo42QvSPM

God, I wish someone would show up at the press conference with a satelite dish on a harness.

LOL, glad I'm not the only one who remembers that hilarious one-man news crew bit. Not to mention his whole catalog of brilliant material.
Good humor is a sign of intelligence. I heard he was a real math jock at Harvard, and his great takedown of Reaganomics in "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot" was the best I've ever read--from a layperson/non-economist perspective.
This is the Republicans' greatest nightmare, couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch.

Not so fast.

This actually rips off Harry Reid's fig leaf, which he's been cavorting behind like a whirling dervish in pasties.(Love that image)

Now the American people get to see the GOODS in hi-def.

Sure, a lot will get rammed through.

But the referendum is in 2010. That's when we'll see what's what.

(and what the heck, maybe a tasty Al soundbite, meantime.)

Buyer's remorse will set in on Franken about the same time it does on Obama. Things are going to begin to unravel soon but we can count on it all being Bush's fault in the minds of the Franken constituency.