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UPDATE: Norm Coleman has finally conceded, clearing the way for Al Franken to be certified as the election winner and take his U.S. Senate after 8 bitter months of legal battling over the Minnesota election. News reports say Dem leaders reserved spots for Franken on four committees which willoversee the health care overhaul and the Supreme Court nomination among other high-profile issues.
This decision by the Minnesota Supreme Court ends the recount process and affirms Al Franken's obvious victory for the long-vacant 
U.S. Senate once occupied by Norm Coleman. News reports this morning say the court rejected Republican Coleman's legal challenge and ordered that Democrat Franken receive the election certificate he needs to assume office. It's unclear whether Coleman will continue the legal wrangling. With Franken finally seated, Democrats will have a big enough majority (with the Senate's two like-minded Independents) to overcome Republican filibustering. As DHD readers know, I've been closely following the Al Franken vs Norm Coleman race because, while showbiz talents who are also Democrats routinely raise money and campaign for political candidates, they rarely run for public office themselves. For a long while, the Saturday Night Live alum and ex-Air America radio broadcaster trailed Coleman, only to pass him in votes during the recount.
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Got to love how you contradict yourself by saying that it is an “obvious victory” but then follow that up by discussing how he trailed at first until the recount. How is an election that is decided on a recount an “obvious victory”?
I wonder if there will be another SNLer running for higher office. Dennis Miller for Congress?
The court thought he was good enough, he was smart enough, and doggone it, the Minnesota people like him.
I’m not a fan of Franken, he seems to be a mean-spirited bully and all-around asshole but if he won, he won and Coleman should step aside and let him be seated without any more legal manoeuvres. Still, the prospect of losing with bag after bag of ballots being ‘found’ after the election – in the back seat of cars, behind closet doors etc – can’t be a pleasant experience.
Also, it’s not an ‘obvious’ win when it’s in the low hundreds of votes separating them, almost all of which being conveniently discovered after the election.
Excellent!
If you’re from MN or know about the opposition (Norm Coleman) than you’re aware of his embezzlement suit with his wife and that he’s a wonderful all-around crook! Being from MN, my only run-in with him was when I was working at a garden store and he came in to purchase a couple cases of SLUG-O… No joke! How fitting?
Looking forward to less Ventura flash and more practical influence from our system of celebrity governance.
Good! One more vote for Obama’s Agenda. Take that drudgereport readers!
I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me!
Sorry, I’m pro-Franken, but don’t see this a clear cut ending to this fracas. The MN Supreme Court stopped short of ordering the Governor to sign the certification.
And Coleman might still appeal in the federal courts.
At last, the Al Franken Decade can commence!
He’s good enough, he’s smart enough, and doggone it, now he’s in the Senate!
Coleman will take it to federal court, count on it. If Dems try to seat Franken then Senate Repubs will have a chorus of mock outrage about ‘the process’ and ‘the Constitution’, all the usual things they say when they’ve lost and know it.
The president isn’t enough for you tax hungry asshole democrats?
Finally.
God help us…
I guess when you’re a failure as a comedian, a failure as a writer and a failure as a radio host, the only thing you have left is to run for public office.
Who’s that other well-known guy who was a failure at everything he did before he ran for office? Oh yeah, George W. Bush.
“Hollywood Democrat” – Let’s not be redundant, Nikki.
Yippee. One-party government! WOHOO! And his qualifications are what? I don’t think “constantly making personal attacks on people you disagree with” qualifies.
Al Franken is a U.S. Senator? What a joke.
This is a sad day for congress. There are fewer more self-serving, closed-minded people than Franken. Enjoy it while it lasts, in 18 months it won’t even be close to a super majority.
Finally… now let’s get that new health care legislation passed ASAP!
Another election “won” by cheating, lying, stealing, democrats.
When did this site become so political, I wonder?
Re: “The president isn’t enough for you tax hungry asshole democrats?”
You are entitled to vote for whomever you want to. You are entitled to belong to whichever party you want and believe in whatever you want to believe in. But please, at least make some sense.
1) First, as has been stated ad naseum, any tax increases will be born by those families making over $250,000 / year. So ask yourself: do you make over $250k/year? If not, then STFU about tax increases because they don’t apply to you. If so – and that’s a BIG ‘if,’ because only about 1% of the population does and I refuse to believe every anti-Obama poster on this board is in that top 1% – your life is still better than the other 99% of the population and your taxes aren’t actually being increased, but rather prior tax CUTS are being allowed to expire.
In other words, you got a break for 8 years under W., and now that break is coming to an end. So STFU.
2) What do you think it means for taxes when Reagan spends us into oblivion to “win” the Cold War? What do you think it means for taxes when W. sends us into TWO wars (invasions, really) and commits over 130,000 troops to those countries for 7+ years?! It means that we are committing to spending a crapload of money. Where do you think that money will come from?!!!! A tax by another name is still a tax. What is so difficult to comprehend about that?!
3) Obama did not get elected solely by Democrats. That election was an across the board ass-whipping. Not a too-close-to-call-so-let’s-let-5-conservative-supreme-court-justices-decide-the-presidency-election, an absolute ass-whipping. And the mood was reflected across the board in the congressional elections too.
Now let’s move on from the tit-for-tat and see if we can better this country already. Jesus!
Where’s my vote?
Will Franken vote for the Climate Change Cap and Trade Bill? Which includes btw mandatory installation of devices on showerheads for 3 minute showers. Not even Ed Begley goes that far!
Classic over-reach. Dems and Hollywood would have been better off without Franken in the Senate, people are going to blame both for those 3 minute showers. A reminder every day every morning about how much the elite hates the majority.
If spending 20 years on SNL as both a writer and a performer, plus a few best-selling books, is failure where do i sign up for some of that failure. Coleman supporters are sore losers.
Is he going to get retroactive back pay now?
What the hell is with all these right-wing marauders trolling DHD and posting at any possible opportunity, with the sole intention of irritating rational folks and exposing just how insane they really are? Or maybe it’s just the dozen Republicans who work in Hollywood.
Let’s just hope the Democrats get their act together and actually use that Republican-filibuster-proof vote to clean up the mess left by 8 years of toxic, faithless GOP stewardship.
Al, if you’re reading, it’s time to step up. Kick your fellow Senators in the rear and pass health care reform in the form of a public option. The nation collectively drop-kicked conservatism out of government for a reason.
Good going, you MN idiots. Thought you were taxed enough ? Not yet, you aren’t. Stupid, stupid.
Sending Franken to the Senate is the funniest thing ever associated with that comedian. What a joke!
The end of America.
What a joke. He steals the election with more ballots than votes cast in Minneapolis and then denies the counting of many more ballots from rural districts that favored Coleman. Where’s all the outrage you liberals had in 2000 when all we heard was every vote should be counted. Shameful but at least it’ll be the funniest thing Franken has done — well, ever. .
whisky, I love my showers, but I’m willing to do 3 minutes if it helps my son have a better future on this planet (if what you’re saying is even true). global warming is a reality, and the only people who don’t think so are the same idiotic 20% who actually would like W back in office.
Good posts, Please Use Some Logic and GOP, Go Away. It’s like these ignorant trolls want to act like the last 8 years never happened and it’s all the dems fault our country is in such a mess right now. And yes, the taxes argument is stale and not even true, but you have to hand it to the GOP minions for faithfully sticking to their talking points.
So, a windbag jerk with loud and obnoxious opinions is elected to the Senate with no experience what so ever.
Wait. I re-read what I wrote. He IS qualified to be a member of Congress. =D
Thank God for boxes of vote cards pulled out of someone’s trunk during the recount. *rolls eyes* This country is truly fucked.
I’m glad MN elected Franken. After that block-of-wood Coleman, it’s time for someone who has a brain, and can also make us laugh, because we’re going to need it with the economic meltdown (”depression”?) we’re in…
Good luck Al!
Please Use Some Logic, you are totally right. Obama’s win was a total ass whipping.
In California, it only cost Gays the right to marry.
But that’s okay, ’cause he’s still committed to Gay right. Or throwing the Gay population under the bus. Whatever ensures his next total ass whipping.
“Or maybe it’s just the dozen Republicans who work in Hollywood.”
Wow – nasty in politics and bad with numbers. No wonder you’re a Dem.
This is terrific news for Republicans and bad news for the country (short term). The Democrats are already drunk with power and this event will be the frosting on the cake. My prediction: A continued slide in real estate values (especially commercial real estate), increased interest rates, double-digit unemployment, mounting taxes, higher fuel costs, growing inflation, a ballooning deficit and international unrest. In a nutshell …m-i-s-e-r-y.
The Democrats took control of congress TWO YEARS AGO. I’m getting almost giddy over the future.
Too bad he’ll be working for more than just “TIPS”.
I love C-Span, and his addition to the Senate will surely liven up floor debates. He’ll make mincemeat of those hypocrites on the other side of the aisle, while acting as a comedic shield for the hypocrites on his side. I hope he becomes a regular on O’Reilly. How can you not love the author of “Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot”?
Why are there so many Hollywood-disparaging conservatives reading a showbiz blog?
it’d be like a bunch of liberals reading a newsletter of the weapons manufacturing industry and railing against Republicans.
Yeah, seriously, half-of-America: why don’t you shut the fuck up and let us rule this country on our own! How dare you conservatives post on this site! Hollywood and everything that comes out of it belongs to us! And now, after we employed the same methods of “stealth voting” that ACORN taught us to get Obama in the White House, Franken is in, and we control EVERYTHING! So please, exit quietly out America’s back door, conservatives, and let us get on with the business of appeasing Islamic and Latin American dictators, dismantling our military, eliminating our intelligence gathering capabilities, and oh yes, raising every conceiveable tax there is for “stimulus bills” no one reads.
“use some logic.” even the president has stated that TAXING EVERYONE is on the table if taxing the “rich” doesnt get all the money he needs, ESPECIALLY FOR HEALTH CARE.
do people REALLY think that since Oba=messiah has increased the national debt by an extra $3 trillion, over the $1 trillion that Bush increased it, that ONLY the rich can pay for it?
The rich do not have “unlimited” amounts of money.
Also, if Oba=messiah gets the EPA & socialized medicine bills passed as law, another $2 trillion will be added. ALL OF THIS INCREASE DURING A MAJOR RECESSION!!!!????
everything will be taxed from utilities, health benefits, to food in the next 4 yrs. The EPA standards that Oba=messiah wants will cause even regular appliances& food to go up in price. so the under $250, 000 people that the liberals, AD NAUSEUM say wont be taxed, WILL BE TAXED.
TO THE POSTER, “use some logic,” here, from the Washington Times, originally published on the internet at 05:25 p.m., June 28, 2009, updated 05:29 p.m., June 28, 2009:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/28/obama-open-new-health-benefits-tax/
“The White House left open the possibility Sunday that President Obama might pay for his health care overhaul by taxing employer-provided health insurance even though he had campaigned on not raising taxes on middle-class families.”
“White House adviser David Axelrod said the administration wouldn’t rule out taxing some employees’ benefits to fund a health care agenda that has yet to take final form. The move would be a compromise with fellow Democrats, who are pushing the proposal as a way to pay for the massive undertaking without ballooning the federal deficit.”
” ‘ There are a number of formulations, and we’ll wait and see. The important thing at this point is to keep the process moving, to keep people at the table, to the keep the discussions going,’ ” Mr. Axelrod said. ” ‘We’ve gotten a long way down the road, and we want to finish that journey. ‘ ”
“But if Mr. Obama compromises on that point, it would reverse his promise not to raise taxes on those earning less than $250,000.”
Nikki, your statement, “and affirms Al Franken’s obvious victory for the long-vacant U.S. Senate once occupied by Norm Coleman. ”
“so obvious” really Nikki? how so? it took several recounts to figure that out…why say such a biased statement??? you didnt know either for at least the first 3-4 weeks when even Franken had no proof because the 1st recount wasnt completed yet. THEN FRANKEN EVEN AGREED TO MORE RECOUNTS.
oy vey folks….
Dems should not et to excited about a 60 majority, their beloved KKK Dem Senator Robert Byrd from W. Virginia is on the verge of death. He of holding power in the Senate longer then anyone ever. When he goes, W. Virginia is not going to vote in a Dem, that I assure you. Byrd is a hold over from when the Dems were the Repubs of the South.
Wonder why the Dems have sucked up to this Klan member?
“Ooh ooh! Ooh ooh!”
Al Franken, taunting a caged gorilla in ‘Trading Places’
Bill O’Reilly is going to have some fun now with Senator Stuart Smalley
First is was Washington State, then Iran and now Minnesota. If you can’t win the election, just steal it.
And don’t worry – there’s enough left-wingers in the blogosphere to carry your water.
Good thing for Franken that the election wasn’t decided by the people who worked with him on SNL.
Leo Ruby, I thought you right-wingers were big fans of hyperbolic exaggerations and fraudulent assertions, like the making up of statistical data…
And, by the way, it was your side that injected nastiness into the political discourse. Indeed, you’ve polarized the national dialogue into extremes across the board on every issue. Then you wrap yourselves in the American flag and claim dominion over patriotism and damn anyone who doesn’t concur with you into the outlands of “anti-Americanism”. Shameful. But my favorite conservative protestations, by far, are the projections being hurled about, labeling the Obama Administration guilty of the insidious practices of the Bush Administration — a sub-part of the whole revisionism movement better known as “Bush kept us safe”…
Further evidence of this radical right-wing insanity has been plastered across the comments section of this article. Some of these postings are absolutely dripping with hate and bigotry.
Nikki, the nutjobs have invaded your message boards.
You liberals are so caught up in the “us vs them” mentality that you have lost all objectivity.
I am a hard-line conservative.
But I can admit that Bush and the republican, (not conservative,) congress were absolute failures on almost every level. Had they stuck to even the basic conservative principals of cutting the size of government and lowering taxes they would have ensured republican rule for the next 40 years.
But they blew it. They blew it to such a degree that a majority of Americans voted in absolute, unapologetic socialists who are hell bent on turning us into a third world country thru overbearing govt regulation and higher taxes.
The only silver lining I can see is that the current administration and their cohorts in congress are going so far to the left that the 2010 elections will see the republicans taking back congress and then in 2012 the white house.
Obama is Jimmy Carter v2.
So, those of you on your knees in front of Obama, it’s time to stand up and start paying attention.
Because what these people in washington are enacting and trying to enact WILL affect your daily life in ways you can’t even imagine…in a very bad way.
Al Franken: “The black one must be the female.”
Clarence Beeks: “FEMALE???”
-Trading Places
“Some of these postings are absolutely dripping with hate and bigotry.”
Comment by GOP, go away….
Please prove your libel and slander dude? everyone AGAINST Oba=messiah has posted facts. He is willing to raise taxes on the middle class. How is that “absolutely dripping with hate and bigotry.”
your radical side has posted fiction & lies. your side practices hatred & bigotry.
your side was sexist & anti-elderly during the last election not the “right-wing”. also the shooter of the national holocaust museum was anti-right wing, anti-christian, anti-war, anti-god, anti-jewish. so what does that tell you about your side, since the guy is obviously closer to your ism than my ism? also, Oba=messiah’s minister is anti-white. Yet I see not one politician on the right that holds any of these positions.
i will give you til sunrise to respond. if you do not respond by then, you have proved my point about the faithful who worship at the altar of the Oba=messiah: HYPOCRITES & LIARS. PLAIN & SIMPLE.
cheers champ.
The US Senate is now the Comedy Store East! Another joke on us the taxpayers.
Let’s see how this “tough guy” with a big mouth compromises and JUSTIFIES it to those who elected him.
Post your “excuses”:
“Hey, you gotta work the room”….
next?
Republican tears, oh my God, they are so delicious. I need more to slake my thirst.
60 IN THE SENATE, BITCHES.
Suck on it, you douchebag conservative fuckwads.
lu-ee. Dude. Get some help. Seriously.
I’m sure Trig Palin disagrees that the right injected nastiness into the campaign. I haven’t yet seen the assassination chic that filled the last 8 years, the constant calls for Bush to be killed in books, plays, movies etc.
Obama’s now firmly against gay marriage by supporting the defence of marriage act, he’s abandoned reform of don’t ask don’t tell, and they are continuing all the Bush-era anti-terror tactics that are now suddenly grey areas rather than black-and-white fascism. Rendition, secret prisons, wiretapping, guantanamo, unlimited detention without trial – all chugging ahead full steam on his watch with his ok. And nobody seems to mind anymore. That isn’t opinion or truthiness, it’s fact.
Obama is going to raise taxes on the middle class, to pay for the health care that is going to ration and lower the quality of your family’s care. His family will be fine, as will all of the politicians and elites. I’m Canadian and I know exactly where your system is headed. The politicians up here don’t like it because where will they go now when they need fast, quality health care? They sure don’t ever use our system.
Most of the people making over 250K that you think are ‘the rich’ are actually small business owners, all their income counts as personal for taxes. Hit them hard and they’ll either lay off staff or go out of business. How many of you work for poor people?
Looking outside, first he doesn’t want to meddle in Iran while they butcher protestors, then he desperately wants to meddle in Honduras where the government stopped a coup attempt by Chavez Jr. The media and the left (redundant?) are all pounding on Honduras, which has done nothing but uphold its constitution and the rule of law, and Obama is firmly against them. Pay attention!
But by all means, keep up the baseless attacks on the crazy right-wingers, the only enemy you can actually see.
@ Joe:
Oh, believe me, I am infuriated with Obama’s broken promises. He’s lost my vote.
A virtual High Five to Judith & Too Cool.
Regarding ballots that suddenely appear after Polls have closed, why aren’t the ballots numbered in sequence so each ballot can be accounted for and why aren’t voters fingers dipped in dye?
Because you need that magin of error to steal an Election.
Al Bergette, you’re speaking of the 2000 and 2004 Presidential elections, of course?