Did he tell them that he doesn’t have much chance at all of successfully appealing to the Federal courts for relief?

they know that, what he told them is this;

“fund me until franken is seated and get as many bills voted on as possible while franken is not in the senate because they will be far harder to defeat when he is in the senate”

that’s what he told them

this isn’t about getting seated, as we all know it’a about obstruction, it’s about delegitimizing franken as senator, it’s about keeping law from being passed

And it’s not going to last much longer, despite Cornholio Cornyn’s boastings.

Indeed Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins and others have declared their “trust” of Coleman…knowing that the absence of Franken makes their roles so much more important. And allowing them to introduce ridiculous Amendments in order to “win” their votes. Thus they can subvert budgets and bills just as much as if the Republicans had 49 Senators, instead of 39.

The Republicans were out yesterday asserting yet again that “votes in Minnesota were not counted”…this after Colemans massive efforts to try and deny the recount and bully a win (which would have failed to count tens of thousands of LEGAL votes). After Coleman blocked well over ten thousand votes by challenge, almost all conceded to be legal…or determined as much by the Courts. And then Coleman had his effort to include massive quantities of illegal votes denied…absentee ballots where the voter had also voted in person, or votes where a third party had filled out the ballot.

This is what the Republicans consider “legal votes”????

Maybe Norm was trying to get their new credit card numbers.

Thank you for not refering to him as “boxturtle”.

Boxturtle (The one, the only)

*heaving sigh*
I hope it’s over soon.

nice graphic, btw.

Cornyn isn’t a box turtle, he’s a post turtle.

The beginning of the end is Tuesday, when the Election Challenge Court reviews and decides which (if any) of those ballots will be opened and counted.

Whatever happened to that repukeian holy grail, States’ Rights? The sovereign state of Minnesota has declared Franken the winner and yet Mitch et al has decided to ignore that little detail.

I’m sure they thanked him for all the help he’s given them in maintaining 58 and their status as the Party of NO. He gushed appreciation, and said that the fight will continue… and they would’ve egged him on. Hoping that they discussed anything more substantive or helpful than this is, I think, folly.

There’s strong feeling among some in Minnesota that Tim Pawlenty will be the next political casualty, convinced that he will buck the MN Supreme Court, Secretary of State and Attorney General and deny Franken his certificate. Pawlenty always has answered first and foremost to the national GOP, but can he really be that stupid? I guess maybe so, he was willing to let a bridge collapse and kill people to make Grover Norquist happy.

Heh! One wonders.

No kidding. But even he must soon realize that he can’t expect to win even a VP slot on the GOP’s 2012 ticket if he’s a FORMER governor — which he will be next year if he refuses to sign the cert when Eric Magnuson tells him to do so. He barely beat Mike Hatch in 2006, and Hatch had political flaws you could drive a truck through.

can the court order him to issue the certificate? Or are we sayin’ that he’s prepared to go to jail for contempt rather than seat Franken? in which case he will just have cut off his nose to spite his face ;P

Miss McConnell looks like a turtle.

Did he beg them for a nice cushy wingnut-welfare job in exchange for crashing and burning his own political career in order to further Operation Stonewall?

Is he smart enough for that, and do they take convicted felons?

Siun’s up
Breaking the Silence on Afghanistan

I’m late, I’m late for a very important date . . .

TPaw crashing on the heels of this fiasco is largely dependent on Al’s “performance” in the Senate. Even amongst his own, he is not a uniformly beloved person. But I think he’ll be a formidable senator. He has two years to make TPaw look bad, badder, baddest if the gov plays the heavy hand in this power drama.

I have raised this from time to time at Emptywheel’s place, but I am amazed at the concerted, coordinated conspiracy by the Republicans to subvert the election and nominations processes. Make no mistake — to my way of thinking it IS a highly synchronized effort.

What concerns me even more, however, is the “shadow” organization that is running it all, that has the power to force our elected officials into submission. John Cornyn, unfortunately, is one of my senators. I left a message at his office the other day asking if he is doing anything positive. Obviously, I have not received any response. We can vote and go through the motions of elections — but the people we elect are not concerned with us. They are more concerned with pleasing those who are in the shadows.

Something stinks, big time!

It does indeed. And the media are complicit. Especially the print media. Now, as noted earlier, the Pugs are on the horns of a dilemma. To continue pressing Coleman’s case will ultimately create a potentially huge problem for TPaw. See MinnPost’s piece about that double-edged sword.

“Did he tell them that he doesn’t have much chance at all of successfully appealing to the Federal courts for relief?”

After Coleman loses his appeal to the MNSCT, his best bet for delay is to file a motion with the USCT for a stay pending filing and adjudication of his cert petition. Sam Alito is the Justice assigned to the 8th Circuit, so it will be his call whether or not to grant a stay. If a stay is granted, the schedule on filing his petition and Franken’s response would buy another four months, even before the Court considers the petition on the merits.

PW, it was a pleasure, as always, to hang out with your ‘PM’ yesterday.

It tells you everything you need to know about the current state of the criminal conspiracy that goes by the name of “the Republican Party” that there is a real question whether a Republican Governor will sign the election certificate of a Democratic Senator even after he is ordered to do so by the state Supreme Court.
In requiring an election certificate signed by the governor, the rules of the United States Senate make the now laughable assumption that Republican state officials will act in good faith, and follow court orders. Since that is no longer the case, the Senate will be obliged to exercise the power conferred on it by the Constitution to be the ultimate judge of the elections and qualifications of its members.

Wow, April First has come and gone without Harry Reid seating Al Franken.

You can never lose money betting against Harry Reid’s faux bluster.