Well damnit at least slightly MORE liked him anyway!
Let me be the first to welcome Senator Franken, regardless of the legal wrangling still to happen from the Coleman camp...
If there ever were a reason for me to go back to the Hill, Franken (and Warner) would be those reasons, so who knows, maybe I'll be reporting from there again soon.
This of course raises some fairly significant advantages for the Dems in all facets of Congress as their current advantage now rises to 59 senators, one short of the mystical "filibuster proof" majority, but I'm sure there are some moderate/more liberal senators that will be more then amenable to this new administrations needs (Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, I'm looking at you here...).
The interesting case that still has yet to totally play out (but should a bit later today), is the situation with Illinois Senator (well, Blagojevich appointee anyway) Roland Burris and whether the new Democratic majority have the chutzpah to back up their threat of actually blocking his ascension to the seat...
The biggest question mark though of this new political majority for the Dems, is whether they will buck their recent history and actually DO something with it. They have a chance to do something special within the first 100 days of Obama's term not seen since the 73rd Congress enacted 16 major laws during Mr. Roosevelt's First 100 Days.
My guess is that republicans need not worry that their standard way of doing things will be threatened any time soon... The various factions within the Democratic party will show just how inept they are at coming together for any meaningful or lasting legislation very soon, don't you worry...
(This posting brought to you by copious amounts of cold medicine, so take that as you will...)
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Dynamite Yiddish drop-in Dews.....
As much as I agree with the Senate's threat to block Burris, I believe it is all smoke and mirrors. The last thing the Dems need right now is in-house fighting weeks before Obama is sworn in.
I do love how Norm Coleman is burning tax payer money on a lawsuit to block Franken from becoming Senator, when just 2 months ago he demanded Franken NOT waste taxpayer money on the recount. It’s nice to know that Republican hypocrisy is still alive and strong.
I honestly can't fault Coleman too badly on that, since Franken's campaign was pretty much set to do the same thing if they had lost too...
As much as I'd like to though :)
Frankens campaign was set to do that, sure. But did Franken go on live television and demand that Coleman not waste tax payer money? Then go and waste tax payer money 2 months later?
Dews owes this picture idea to something I told him yesterday.
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