Time for Norm to concede.

Franken-Coleman Recount Update: Canvassing Board Certifies Al Franken as the Winner

Courts certify Coleman as whiner.
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Who moved Coleman’s cheese? Who locked his door? Who let the dogs out?

“They can’t carry on Senate business,” said Howard Gantman, staff director for the Senate Rules and Administration Committee.

They can carry on like WATB’s, however.

Phoenix Woman: I think it is time to turn the hourglass graphic over. The sight of Norm’s stuff pouring on top of Al has always bothered me. Now, with the certification Al is literally on top.

Now, Norm Coleman could do the honorable smart thing and concede. Or, he could file a contest and blow some more money on Tony Trimble and Fritz Knaak. Since the smart money on Republicans is that they never do the
honorable smart thing, and since John Cornyn wants to shove the Senate door in Al’s face tomorrow, the guess is that Coleman will contest — and lose

honor is a funny word, it depends on your perspective, coleman can use “honor” to defend his actions, claiming the honorable thing to do is whatever it takes to prevent another democrat into the senate.

now here is what’s really happening;

rove has created a new metric, one which you continue throwing muck in the wheels of government, doing your best to de-legitimize “liberal” politics, then if you lose it looks like the winner cheated

Good morning all,

DIGG is open.

Condi, Dick and Bush must have had their Arab/Muslim dead body quota just about sated.

Reports that Condi will take her Ferragamo’s to the UN to sue for peace now.

-G

OT I am experiencing a lot of gremlins in the toobz this AM
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My bet he’ll file a contest. Harry Reid will likely bend over backwards to accomodate the “concerns” of the Republicans. Remember this is the post partisan era and ultimately “we’re all Republicans now.”

Apparently, Coleman doesn’t have to make a move, as “Give ‘Em Head Harry” Reid is doing it for him.

Harry is preventing Al Franken from being seated, until the Coleman court wasting time is concluded. Considering that the next few months will be critical for getting economic legislation passed, all I can say is one thing:

You’ve accomplished yet another smart move, Harry Reid. A Get Smart move.

The problem is that Box Turtle Cornyn has already said that he’d stage a filibuster, and you know how the F-word makes Harry widdle in his pants. I’m astonished he went along with locking up Norm’s old office.

Krugman explained it all last week, using Lee Atwater’s own words. Republicans hate government because government gives money to black people.

Of course, that’s why they hated the Freedmen’s Bureau in the south during early Reconstruction. It took care of people. tried to give newly emancipated slaves some dignity, and used tax money to do it.

The cry going back to Reconstruction has always been, “let them be free, but let them work for what they want.” Well, when the old slaveholders held all the means of production and freedmen couldn’t even sell produce from home gardens how were they to make a living?

Twenty-first century and these throwbacks are still gumming up our democracy. I say cut the south loose. They want to have their way of life that entails fucking with the rest of us, screw ‘em. Take all our federal money and federal jobs and move everything to another sandbox. These people aren’t worth the agita.

Siun’s up with a Gaza update

Whether Franken or Burris are seated immediately is not necessarily a problem until contentious votes come up. The stimulous bill is a spending bill and must originate in the house and then move to the senate. There is time for the courts to smack the shit out of Reid and Cornyn.
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Yup.

I don’t understand the problem with the extra 654 ballots. Were they absentee ballots or regular ones? What was the reason to not count them?

Coleman’s been grousing about these ballots since last week. Now, unless there something over 400 votes for Coleman in the pile, how would it change the results if the state simply counted them? If the ballots went 60-40 Coleman, that would only be about a 130 vote gain, so it wouldn’t make a big difference in the outcome.

I’ve tried to find the specifics regarding these ballots, but then I figured somebody here would know what’s doing with them.

I bet Cornyn didn’t even say he would stage a filibuster, as the GOP no longer has to actually do it under Harry.

Perhaps the paperwork for a silent Filibuster is now growing too burdensome for poor Harry…to pass along to his staff.

I ‘ll say it again, Lincoln should have put federal money into the Underground Railroad and let the white south wither. Historians: comment only partly in jest

654 these were supposedly identified by Coleman folk as “possibly incorrectly” discared absentee ballots for the same reasons the BOEs had determined as “incorrectly” discarded (i.e. non-matching signature, improper witness dates, unconfirmed addresses). Both campaigns had the addresses and names of all absentee voters (as by law but Franken’s camp requested them first.) The BOEs did due diligence and checked and rechecked to determine their number of 1330 (?). The Coleman folk, after telephoning as many absentee voters as the could (Franken people did too) decided that they could list 654 more with their “due diligence.” In other words, the Coleman people wanted to usurp fully the role of BOE’s in majority republican leaning counties.
Franken’s lawyers in most county BOEs, graciously objected but allowed these 645 to be opened and they were easily identified as properly excluded.

Ah, that’s what I was looking for. Thanks Palli!

Coleman plans to stink up the place. In his statement he revives some old claims that were knocked down weeks ago.

Th WSJ is also on board. The loathsome Dick Morris is hard at work; presumably he’s being paid.

Presumably the national attack is being coordinated by the Swiftboater Benjamin Ginsberg.

Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter, Lott, and the WSJ have been flogging the “stolen election” idea for a month already, and we can expect that to explode. They won’t be able to keep Franken from being defeated, but they can put him under a cloud.

The truth is “Franken honestly won a very close election which was very carefully and honestly done”. The wingers are pushing “Franken stole the election”. My guess is that their goal is primarily just to spread doubt, so that the conventional wisdom becomes “Franken won a close election in court after a controversial and flawed recount. Some say he stole it”.

But it wasn’t a flawed recount. If that becomes the CW, the wingers win. It will just be one more small obstacle they’ve succeeded in putting in Obama’s path, partly just by changing the conversation over to the Franken “controversy” instead of, for example, preventing a depression or dealing with the Israel Palestine dispute.

The battle against the lies has just begun. My guess is that some of the Republican scum were pulling in their horns as long as it seemed that Coleman might win, but we should see them crawling out from under their rocks now. (And sorry for the mixed metaphor).

Glad you could understand it with all those typos.

I was an observer at 3 county BOEs in Ohio 2004 fraudulent recounts. Minnesota was humanly perfect on all counts: by intent, by integrity, by law.

Coleman is scheduled to meet the press at 4:00 PM, CST. So far, no sign of his lawyers at the court house door with the Contest Petition Papers.

I don’t know what he will do — my “guesser” goes one way one minute, and another the next. But I suspect he is getting massive pressure from all corners and in all directions. We’ve got a huge budget problem here in Minnesota, they have to cut 4-5 billion out of this year’s appropriations, and the Legislature just came in today to get sworn in, get organized, and start dealing with it. Pawlenty, Republican, faces two legislative houses that are solid DFL, so I assume the attention will now shift from a “decided” Senate Race to a profoundly difficult Legislative Session.

It might not be all that popular for Coleman to be spending oodles of money on his lost cause, when the financial problems are now center stage, and at least one aspect of this will be Senators who can be on station in DC as the Obama recovery plan evolves.