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John Emerson Stolen election! Stolen election! Stuart Smalley, ha ha ha! Franken wasn't funny on SNL! Franken asked for the recount because he was a sore loser! Ballots found in the trunk of a car! Somalis!!!!!!!! People voting twice with "duplicate ballots"! ACORN! Franken wants to count invalid absentee ballots! Minnesota sucks! Worse than Chicago! Communists!
Republican losers have all the class of Wichita Falls Cowboys fans tweaking on meth after their team blows another game.
Senator Franken?
Political Animal —
SENATOR FRANKEN?.... The Minnesota Supreme Court may have sealed Norm Coleman's fate today. In a unanimous decision handed down just now, the state Supremes denied Coleman any relief in a lawsuit he was waging to deal with allegations of double-counted absentee ballots, which his campaign says have given an illegitimate edge to Al Franken. The Coleman campaign was seeking to switch 25 selected precincts back to their Election Night totals, which would undo all of Franken's recount gains in those areas and put Coleman back in the lead. The court, however, sided with the ...
Gosh Darn It, People Like Him
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
... Bye-Bye Norm. That is, unless the Supremes discover another mysterious "no, the Republican has to win" clause in the 14th Amendment... Posted by Scott Lemieux at ...
Christmas Eve Open Thread
Balloon Juice —
... are far fewer crazy people on our streets.
3.) This is some classic Yglesias-speak:
My half-formed ability to make aesthetic judgments is telling me that this song has certain qualities that most people actually hate, but that I like.
That is Matt speak for “this sucks, but I like it anyway.”
4.) You were right. Season 2 of Heroes is ten pounds of suck in a five pound bag.
5.) Looks like Al Franken is good enough and smart enough to be a Senator.
Cya in the morning. And Merry ...
Wow? Al Franken is Going to Win
The Washington Note —
Norm Coleman loses a key decision in the tug of war over ballots in the still undecided Minnesota U.S. Senate race.
Congratulations Al.
A final report of election results from the Minnesota State Canvassing Board still probably won't come in til the new year, but it's hard to see how Franken's slim but real lead can be overcome now.
-- Steve Clemons
A Minnesota Rouser
Firedoglake —
... I hope everyone's Holiday Season is going better than Norm Coleman's this year. Although strangely, a bad Holiday Season for Norm makes my Holiday season all the merrier. ...
I take full credit
Rising Hegemon —
Since I have traveled to Minnesota for Christmas (I'm that crazy) let me take the opportunity to claim responsibility for the phrase "Senator Al Franken" and his apparent obtaining of six-tenths of "an Al Franken Decade". ...
Boxing Day links
Maggie's Farm —
... Borat - Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Hilariously un-PC and insensitive, and therefore highly recommended. Now, back to work. Christmas in Baghdad. Photo from the piece at Gateway Harvard's endowment likely lost much more than they are saying. University greed is the problem. What's with the double-counting? I don't get it. Handel's Messiah: I thought I saw ...
