BooYa!

Sen. Franken sounds really good to me. Now to wait for the dead enders to carry on . . .

Don’t we love that Franken was part of the early day of Air America? Maybe we are seeing evidence that large swaths of our country would like to see some changes….Hey, W, stay in your cul de sac…you have done enough. Maybe SMU will want to rethink your theme park.

I started listening to AAR from the first day. Sadly there is little on the network now that I want to listen to. Rachel was the last holdout, but they are just playing the audio of her tv show now. It had such a promising start. And there are fewer and fewer progressive radio stations surviving. I have to stream one from Seattle and I live in PA. Again, the dems with the $$ don’t get it about supporting infrastructure for the long haul.

Just for Norm.

Sen. Franken sounds really good to me. Now to wait for the dead enders to carry on . . .

Amen. Wonder what sleazeball Norm and the even sleazier RNC have up their sleeves now. They seem to have a lock on amoral/immoral creativity. The nation and Minnesota need leadership, not political Machiavellianism.

The rest of the decision wasn’t any friendlier to Norm. And The UpTake notes that while the decision doesn’t say that an election certificate must be issued — they’re apparently leaving that to the Minnesota Supreme Court — it does say that Franken is entitled to it.

what;s the worst case scenario as far as how long an appeal will take and then how long before we find out if they actually seat franken once the appeal is found in franen’s favor?

IIRC 10 days to file an appeal, then 15 more days for Al’s team to respond, then it’s anyone’s guess.

OMG, Bob Ney joins the on air nutjobs.

Convicted former Ohio Rep. Bob Ney has radio show.

What’s next? The Scooter Libby Show?

You can also stream WMNF Tampa for their public affairs segments, M-F 10am to 2pm, Sunday 8am to noon.

Ten days for Normie to file a notice of intent to appeal.

Fifteen days from the filing of intent for Normie’s lawyers to actually file their brief.

Fifteen days from Normie’s filing of his brief for Franken’s lawyers to respond.

I figure Normie will file his notice of intent on April 23, 2009. His argument will be filed May 8, 2009. Franken’s response will be filed May 9 or 10. The Minnesota Supreme Court will decline to hear the case and order Pawlenty and Ritchie to issue a certificate of election around May 12/13, 2009.

The Minnesota Supreme Court could save us all a great deal of trouble by requiring a 7 figure surety bond for the appeal.

I picked the Seattle station because it streams over iTunes which makes it easy.

I wonder what’s become on Randi Rhodes.

Yay Franken, let’s move, Minnesota!

or 20% of the Duggar family?

Unfortunately Minnesota Governor and ultimate certificate-signer Tim Pawlenty is one of the dead-enders.

Felony convictions seem to be the best resume for radio wingnut welfare recipients.

Given that Coleman delays to the max legally possible (and he will) and goes federal (he might) the time variables are all on the judicial side and May or June is the most widely quoted ETA.

Pawlenty theoretically could try to aid the RNC stall by declining to issue Franken’s certificate when the MN supes tell him to… but it would cost him any chance of reelection.

As has been pointed out elsewhere the Fed supes will drop the case like a hot potato by denying cert because the last thing the RNC actually wants is any hint of real equal protection debate as far as elections are concerned. The ‘cons don’t do well with the concept of actual equality and fairness in elections at either state or federal levels.

That’s about it I think.

it’s an odd story. It seems that the guy who was behind AAR early on then went on to work with NovaM which had Mike Malloy then took on Randi when AAR canned her. He lost tons of his money in the downturn and reportedly became suicidal. Here’s the WSJ version.

amazingly consistent aren’t they?

What’s next? The Scooter Libby Show?

He could sit in for Gordon Liddy without much ado…

flipping the “d”’s around, so that they become”b”’s, would be pretty easy – especially on radio.

Phoenix Woman and Firedogs -

here is Franken’s statement about 10 minutes ago (h/t TPM)

link

Finally! Great process, great result. Good work, Minnesota!

Randi got canned or walked before they canned her. Dispute with somebody. Quite a while ago.

I’m sure his first show will be on the dangers of the fairness doctrine. /s

fuck! the shit! fuck the fucken shit yeah!

From today’s DN!

AMY GOODMAN: The whole issue of populist rage, Noam Chomsky, actually, do you think that this rage is going to boil over as the unemployment figures rise?

NOAM CHOMSKY: It’s very hard to predict those things. I mean, it has a potentially positive side, like it could be like the activism of the 1930s or the 1960s, which ended up making it a more civilized society in many ways, or it could be like an unfortunate precedent that quickly comes to mind. I’ve written about it.

Take a look at Germany. In the 1920s, Germany was the absolute peak of Western civilization, in the arts and the sciences. It was regarded as a model of democracy and so on. I mean, ten years later, it was the depths of barbarism. That was a quick transition. “The descent into barbarism” it’s sometimes called in the scholarly literature.

Now, if you listen to early Nazi propaganda, you know, end of the Weimar Republic and so on, and you listen to talk radio in the United States, which I often do—it’s interesting—there’s a resemblance. And in both cases, you have a lot of demagogues appealing to people with real grievances.

The beginning of the last segment. At 43 or thereabouts.

I wonder how many times Franken needs to win the election before Franken, ya know, wins the election?

Hey Normie, go away. You’re becoming a public embarrassment.

You’re becoming a public embarrassment.

my only quibble is with your verb tense.

I wonder if Norm’s spigot of money is going to keep flowing, this was a really one-sided decision that makes any further action extremely pointless. Sure, Coleman can always squeeze money out of the republican rubes, but the big money people (as well as the high-priced lawyers) may find they have better things to concentrate on.

that makes any further action extremely pointless.

but if like me, you see all this foot dragging as a means of obstructing Dems in Senate it behooves them to keep on keepin’ on. will be very interesting to see where the money for any further action beyond MN Supremes comes from

Thanks, PW

When Coleman has exhausted his state remedies, it will be truth or consequences time for Pawlenty — whether only one top level Minnesota republican politician will be destroyed by this fiasco or two.

The RNC’s money is on further delays to block Franken’s seating and therefore, two.

Good point. Sorry.

Oooh! Mary, may I steal?

Interesting, thanks. I know Randi had some problems with her comments about Clinton, don’t know how much that affected her terms with AAR.

Voices from the Crypt: Ronald Reagan’s Radio

AAR sacked her long ago. Then she got picked up by a variety of stations who weren’t doing the whole AAR lineup anyway—I don’t think anyone is any more. Hard to know what will become of her as what’s left of the leftie stations aren’t exactly tearing up the airwaves. Even I find it hard to listen to some of them.

Ah for the days of Morning Sedition and Unfiltered!

We’ll get to hear Franken again though in a very different venue and not on a daily schedule.

Strip-Search Sammy Alito is the SCOTUS justice assigned to Minnesota; he’ll want to make his bones with his Bush v Gore buddies. The moment the Minnesota Supremes rule, Norm’s lawyers will be in Sammy’s face for a stay to prevent Smiling Tim from signing the certification.

And Sammy will sign, to prove he’s One of Them.

Watch for it, it will happen.

certainly!

A federal stay until cert is denied would certainly max out the stall.

(At that point Reid could actually do something right and seat Franken anyway after such an obviously partisan abortion of justice… so Reid will cave of course.)

So with Pawlenty given the cover of “They made me not sign!” (which won’t save him, I think) then how long could the fed supes stall on denying cert?

Maybe, Teddy.

But the whole Court can over-rule StripSearch Sammy, can’t they?

I cannot imagine that Mr (in)Justice Roberts could want anything to do with this decision. He knows that SCOTUS lost enormous credibility in Bush v. Gore. Meddling in a close State election for partisan purposes could cause enormous backlash, maybe even amending Section 50 of the United States Code and adding four or so justices to the Court. I can’t imagine that Roberts would want to risk that.