Who’s paying Al Franken’s lawyers?

I helped.

This can’t be finished soon enough for me– what’s the time line now? Assume that Coleman can’t make up the difference, and the court finds for Franken, how long will a appeal take before Coleman has exhausted all avenues? 2weeks? 4weeks? 6 weeks?

Where did I see that idiot Coleman declared victory, again, yesterday?

There comes a time when you are getting your ass kicked so badly that self preservation kicks in and you you cry Uncle and hope the crazy bastard beating you is a decent enough fellow to stop.It is getting rarer but someone here had better protect their head.
I’m thinking Norm Coleman is not going to stop until he is unconcious.
G’night, dood.
I hope Medicaid rejects your claim.

“So who’s paying Al Franken’s lawyers?” Check out the Mittster. Romney just sold two of his houses and seems to have an bottomless pot of undertaxed money left over from the Bush administration.

Dang, I really wanted to add another democratic senator – any chance Caroline The Kennedy could replace Tombstone Burris?

How is this travesty possible? Why is it allowed to continue? At some point there has to be a judge that says, “We’re done here”.

Please put up Coleman’s high school picture again so we can laugh at it. Norm Coleman the Hot Comb Hippie.

I got five bucks says that not only did he inhale, he did it on a regular basis.

Don’t bullshit a bullshitter, been there, done that, same time frame.

I bet he likes disco too.

GAG!

Another blog said that the Coleman Camp endeavors to simply prolong the Franken from being seated.

Pwerhaps there are power brokers in Minnesota that would be better off by stalling the Franken as long as possible.

This is not the teen one, but it’s pretty scarey.

Well, all the long hairs I knew, including myself, were all tokers, smokers and midnight jokers. And proud of it.

Here’s the yearbook photo.

It must not be overlooked that today we had the mind-bendingly stupid remarks of WaPo prominent political reporter Shailagh Murray, as quoted at TPM

Baltimore, Md.: Speaking of junior senators, do you see Al Franken being seated anytime before 2010?

Shailagh Murray: Perhaps, but it seems more and more likely that the Minnesota race will wind up as a re-vote. At this point it seems like the quickest way to resolve the situation.

More and more likely? In what alternate universe is Ms. Murray living? While the MN Supreme Court strives to adhere to settled case law as best as possible, Ms. Murray makes up a new law on how MN treats close elections.

watertiger is upstairs at the Mothership!
McCain & Palin: Make Way for the Republican Whiner Krewe

*gasp* … Norm was right, he is The Chosen One !

It’s insane behavior on Normy’s part and I offer two potential rationales:

1) He truly is insane and, to stretch your metaphor, has convinced himself that he can win by simply by weathering the onslaught, “If he kicks my nuts really hard, one more time, I think he’ll hurt his toe and have to quit!”

2) He truly is Republican–which is sometimes the same as insane. There was some question as to Normy’s loyalties since the Old Money owning the Minnesota Wild Hockey team blackmailed Normy into switching sides back in the last century. The Old Money should have had more faith in Normy as a consummate turncoat. He is, trying at least, to proving what a good little soldier he can be. In this scenario the suspicion is that the Republican hegemony has instructed Normy to go all Masada, holding Franken out of the Senate as long as possible, then fall on his sword in a final act of defiance. If this is the case, the jokes on the Republican Hegemony; we checked with Laurie Coleman, turns out Normy doesn’t have a sword.

The Minnesota court is doing this strictly by the numbers. They are carefully dotting every ‘i’ and crossing every ‘t.’ By refusing to take any of the infinitely many reasonable short cuts, when Normie makes his inevitable appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court the justices will consider it overnight. They’ll come back the next morning to thank (former) Senator Coleman for service to the citizens of the State of Minnesota. After thanking him they’ll tell him, “You haven’t got a legal leg to stand on. Governor Pawlenty and Secretary Ritchie are hereby ordered to sign a certificate of election for Senator-elect Al Franken.”

Normie will go to the Feds, the District Court will tell him the same things. Thanks for your service, but you haven’t got grounds for a temporary injunction on Governor Pawlenty and Secretary Ritchie, much less allowing a trial on the (alleged) merits.

Romney just sold two of his houses and seems to have an bottomless pot of undertaxed money left over from the Bush administration.

Makes you wonder how Romney is able to sell off two houses so quickly in this housing market? I smell money-laundering…probably got well above market price for ‘em, too. A nice technique for making illegal contributions, perhaps?

Paul Crawford article proves that Norm “Chicklets” Coleman is void of any integrtiy or working for a groups whose values are in no way in line with vast majority of the people of Minnesota.

If anyone missed Norm having his arse handed to him when shilling for Bush’s illegal war, it is no doubt one of the best pieces of political theater ever and should not be missed:

http://www.youtube.com/results…..&aq=f

Sorry full link here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyyGoPerzWc

Not AIPAC and Global Warming denyers thats for sure

Not in Minnesota, in Washington. I’ve been told that The Employee Free Choice Act, among other initiatives, isn’t going to be introduced until Franken is there.

They are gearing up for it. A new EFCA ad started today on MSNBC – takes the lies about secret ballots head-on.

I’m thinking about all the Bush appointees on the federal bench, and then there’s the supremes how’d that work out…

Ms. Murray is ignoring a very simple fact: The jurists who have dealt with the recount have, from Day One, worked to keep the action strictly within the confines of the existing state law, namely Anderson v. Rolvaag. This is because Anderson v. Rolvaag has already been tested and settled all the way up to the US Supreme Court.

Because of this, Norm’s people cannot take this to the Federal courts system. Their sole shot at appeal is to the Minnesota Supreme Court — and the Soops will shoot down Norm’s appeal and then order the Secretary of State and the Governor to sign Al Franken’s election certificate.

This is why they were so upset last week when the Election Contest Court shot down, yet again, their bogus equal-protection claim: That claim was their best and only chance at a successful transitioning to the Federal system, and another set of appeals that would prolong the case an extra few months. But now they are stuck with the current trial phase, which will last about another week or two, plus the ten-day period they’re allowed in which to decide whether or not to appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court (they certainly will, but they’ll take their sweet time and use up as much of the ten-day period as they can first), plus the three or so days the MN SC will spend mulling it over for form’s sake before denying the appeal.

PW,

What I think is funny about the Strib finally getting honest about Norm’s chances is that they are still spinning it. It’s all the judges fault.

They never stop…