He hasn’t been bluffing, he got everything he wanted. We’ll be lucky if Frankin is able to vote before July. Which was the idea. Anybody who thinks the GOP legal wonks didn’t know this was coming since about a week after the recount was certified hasn’t been paying attention.

They kept a progressive vote out of the senate for 6 months. And they established a legal method for doing it again. Anybody think that Frankin’s term is going to be extended 6 months to make up for it? Yeah, me neither.

Boxturtle (I’m expecting the same set of lawyers in Ohio for the fight over Voinovitch’s seat)

Actually, what this is going to do is to encourage Minnesota — and every other state that hasn’t done so — to get legislation out there providing for provisional election certificates to the provisional winners of elections. The whole reason this is happening is because Minnesota doesn’t have that provision — yet.

Wow, Cornyn’s statement sounds to me like the rug being pulled out from under Coleman. Worse than that, he actually blamed Coleman for dragging things out so long. Nice to scapegoat the loser that he egged on.

Problem is, that’ll give scumsuckers from both parties a free pass through Federal court while it’s litigated. If Coleman could have got this into federal court, he likely could have kept Frankin out another year.

Boxturtle (Assuming a little help from Smilin’ Tim)

True to form. Cornholyo is a real piece of shit.

Actually, it’s looking more and more like Smilin’ Tim may be true to his word for once; more on that tomorrow. I think the Republicans are starting to realize that trying to use the USSC to override the MNSC rather gives the lie to their talk of “states’ rights”. Among other things.

Too funny! Bye, Normie. Don’t be comin’ round these parts no more, no more.

Are they gonna pull the plug on covering the outstanding leagal bills (owed to Team Franken) that Norm is responsible for???? Sounds like a huge maybe to me!!!!! ”It was Norm’s choice to continue … we have to think of 2010.” HAHAHAHHAHAHAAAA!!!!!!

Looks like Coleman’s serious about a gov run. The sooner he gets out of this mess (for which he is solely responsible) the sooner he can deal with the other legal issues staring at him. Which begs the question, how much longer are Coleman’s $ benefactors willing to be strung along? And will they support him for the governorship?

Oh wait, what’s that I hear?

It sounds like a big sucking sound as Normie ’s career goes down the drain.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

Oh, and I just realized something: Coleman lost his seat after one term and his career in politics is done.

Obama served one term and became President. Ya think Norm doesn’t go to bed every night thinking about THAT?

rather gives the lie to their talk of “states’ rights”.

Since when did blatant hypocrisy ever give Republicans even a second’s pause?

They have no sense of irony or humor or hypocrisy. They are disabled in that way.

“Frankly, I’ve been amazed that Sen. Coleman’s been willing to persevere as long as he has, and I’m proud of him for doing that.

Very good Coleman – you fought a futile battle denying the people of MN one of their senators.

Will Al get his senate salary for the last six months?

Slam Dunk?? Com’mon….”Hey everybody, I just found these ballots in the back of my car”. “Jeeze Norm, we’re sorry, we just found more in the closet over there…oh and by the way you are now down 200 votes”.

Ya no fraud here. Can’t believe everyone threw such a shit-fit over the hanging chad’s when crap like this is going on.

The moral for the rethug party: We need to redouble our efforts to restrict voting in those demo districts.

I’ll believe it when I see it. Could be the old limp leg routine. That’s football parlance for a runner relaxing for a moment to lull the tackler into doing the same then taking off.

One way or the other Coleman will come out a winner because with the GOP it’s always heads I win tails you lose.

Looser!! When the F* he ever learn! Normie!

Hey, I’d like to contribute to Norm’s legal defense fund. Can I send a donation through the ethernet?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

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Agree wholeheartedly!

When is the Supreme Court ruling expected, and assuming it goes Franken’s way, how long does Pawlenty have after that?

Hey Newt! Hows things?

Well, disappointed now that edit saved your bacon @ #18 :-(
Awaiting another Senator. Although I was sooooo happy at the prospect of seeing Shooter swear in our Al. But I will find the will to go on, I guess.

Swopa is upstairs at the Mothership!
Karl Rove May Not Care About Muslims’ Opinion of US, But We Should

Ha Ha spilled on my keyboard and was shaking it out!! Lesson don’t bring liquid around your keyboard!

It’s a PC. Keyboards are what, twenty-five cents? Thirty?

Not this one! Tis a wireless little thing….

My Acer Laptop key board was advertised to be spill proof but I don’t want to test it. I hope that my many petitions to Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, John Cornyn and Lamar Smith has done some good but probably not. I even preface my communication with something about how useless it is to write them but then I proceed to give them my opinion. From the Third World Country of Texas

emptywheel upstairs!
Bob Corker, After Begging for Auto BK, Wants Dealers Exempted

I suspect Cornyn’s new reasonableness has much to do with looking at spreadsheet projections as to how much money he has to raise for the 2010 election cycle, and how much he has already thrown down a rat hole on the Coleman appeals. It is somewhat ironic that Cornyn has his position as chair of second choice for the Republican Senate Campaign Fund only because Coleman, to whom it had been promised, failed to return to the Senate last January. It may also have to do with not wanting credit for being the last Senator Standing as a true Coleman believer.

Personally, I doubt if Coleman has any chance for getting the GOP endorsement for Governor — though he might on the basis of an existing state wide organization and name recognition, manage to win a multi-candidate GOP primary. Should be interesting. I suspect we will have more than the current 13 candidates for the DFL endorsement than we currently have — some of whom will probably choose to contest a primary. It could be a most interesting political year. And given that the Teamsters seem postured to strike the Star-Tribune, and as a result probably put that failing Paper out of its current bankruptcy court misery, getting a good bead on what is happening may be difficult. I have my own theory as to why a gang of Texas Venture Capitalists bought Minnesota’s leading newspaper from McClatchy just in time to turn it into a no-news endorsee of Coleman last year — and how that plays into the Cornyn stance and now change of stance, and other mysterious going’s on — but we’ll save that for later.

Good call.

The real lesson here is that secretaries of state and county clerks have got to do a better job of informing the general public about how elections actually work. No reasonably honest person would, for even a minute, believe that Coleman was the victim of a fraud if they had ever heard how the safeguards work, much less worked an election themselves.

Ballots can’t just be added to the count on a mere claim that they were lost or left in someone’s car. There has to be a chain of custody that alerts election officials to the fact that specific ballots are missing, shows where they can be found, and insures that any ballots recovered are, in fact, the same, unmodified ballots as were lost. Things like sealed ballot boxes, serial numbered ballots, stub counts, multiple logs, and witnesses from both parties at every step in the process provide this chain of custody.

This is why those of us that have election experience and work in information technology are so appalled by the bogus electronic voting systems that the fraudulently named Republican Party has foisted on a gullible political class. The whole point of these systems is to eliminate the layered, redundant protections that have secured the vote in this country for a century.

Anyone that is sincerely worried about fraud is looking at the machines and the corrupt electoral officials that champion them, not at impossible thefts of paper ballots or mobs of non-citizens packing the polls.

Den. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is a prime example of a politician that degrades and stagnates from lack of competition in elections in his state.