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Coleman Finally Concedes
Obsidian Wings —
... From the NYTimes: "After nearly eight months of waiting, almost 20,000 pages of legal briefs, and millions of dollars in election costs, Al Franken emerged Tuesday as the next United States senator from Minnesota, ending one of the most protracted election recount battles in recent memory. Mr. Franken, 58, a former comedian and author, could be seated in the Senate as early as Monday, leaders there said, providing Democrats with something they had long hoped for: 60 votes, and thus at least the symbolic ability to overcome filibusters. Norm Coleman, ...
On The Lionel Show: Tuesday, July 1, 2009 CE
The Latest on Air America —
At long last, Senator Al Franken. It's official . Norm Coleman, Mr. Bad Caps, is replaced by and with an equally-interesting mouth. Ahmadinejad can't figure what took them so long. Just declare the race over. At the end of a bayonet. University of Michigan Law School Professor Richard Primus (what a résumé) first joins us with a final word on Ricci, the now-famous New Haven case that conservatives hope and pray will shutter Sotomayor's chances for SCOTUS. Not a chance. Sreenath Sreenivasan joins us for a look at neo-journalism. Sreenivasan is Dean of Students at Columbia University's School of Journalsim and runs the school's new ...
The Early Word: Road Tours for Health and Rural Access
The Caucus —
... who solicited aid for a small Hawaiian bank seeking bailout funds. Democrats at 60: Even Al Franken knows that winning his Senate seat, which gives the Democratic majority the required votes to ward off filibusters, isn’t a guaranteed legislative lock. At his news conference celebrating the Minnesota Supreme Court’s decision to award him the election, Mr. Franken acknowledged that 60 wasn’t necessarily the magic number. The Times’s Monica Davey and Carl Hulse say Mr. Franken could be seated as early as Monday . Bill Signing : After the town-hall meeting, Mr. Obama heads ...
Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday
Daily Kos —
From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE... ATTENTION BILL O'REILLY Hi, Bill. It's me...Bill. I've been waiting for this day so that I could say something special to you. You see, Bill, I remember exactly where I was when I heard you declare on your radio show, shortly after Election Day 2008, that "that guttersnipe" Al Franken would "never" set foot inside the United States Senate. It wasn't a toss-away line. You were emphatic. You called Al Franken a guttersnipe and swore he'd never become a United States Senator. Do you remember that, Bill? I do. I was in the car with my partner driving down ...
Coleman's Loss Leaves Another Void in Senate
The Caucus —
July 1, 2009, 1:08 pm Coleman’s Loss Leaves Another Void in Senate By David Stout And then there were none. Norm Coleman ’s loss to Al Franken in the Minnesota Senate race, coupled with the recent party switch of Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, means that for the first time in more than a half-century there will be no Jewish Republican in the Senate. There is one Jewish Republican in the entire Congress: Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the House minority whip. Meanwhile, on the other side of the aisle, the National Jewish ...
7/1: Sixty Senators
Blogometer —
... of ex-Sen. Norm Coleman 's (R-MN) actions over the past eight months, they're pleased that he finally conceded and allowed Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) to be seated. Now the netroots are discussing the political implications of a 60-seat majority in the Senate. On the one hand, lefty bloggers ...
Al Franken's a Senator, No Joke. But What Kind?
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Rebecca Freitag Although he has been in the spotlight for a handful of things over the years, and worn a lot of different hats, there's not much we know about Al Franken, the politician. In the next five and a half years, we'll all find out if he walks the walk. Franken is the 60th member of the Democratic caucus ...
How Lucky Are Those Damn Democrats?
DownWithTyranny! —
They're in bed with the same greed-obsessed corporate predators as the Republicans and half of them are, at best, just paying lip-service to wanting to serve the interests of average American working families. Like the Republicans, Democratic elected officials seem so preoccupied with their own career trajectories that their constituents' come way down the priority list-- way down... and only just before an election. That's what makes the House of Representatives marginally better than the House of Lords-- in the lower House an election is almost always right around the corner; the Lords don't have to face the voters for 6 ...
