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Daily Kos: Reid says it's over for Coleman, but Franken stays in Minnesota
Weekly Standard Blog: Is Reid Primed for a Meltdown?
Pat Dollard | Young Americans: So Much Power, So Little Time: Reid And Senate Back-Off And Will Let Burris Sit Down, But Reid Says Colman Will “Never Ever Serve”
Reid says it's over for Coleman, but Franken stays in Minnesota
Daily Kos —
... After two months of counting and recounting every eligible ballot in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race, Al Franken has won fair and square and will be the state's next U.S. Senator. Nonetheless, he won't be in DC tomorrow as the rest of his class gets sworn in because Norm Coleman is vowing a legal fight to delay the inevitable. ...
Is Reid Primed for a Meltdown?
Weekly Standard Blog —
... . Reid has also declared that Norm Coleman will "never ever serve" in the Senate again and vowed to lead the Senate until at least 2015. ...
So Much Power, So Little Time: Reid And Senate Back-Off And Will Let Burris Sit Down, But Reid Says Colman Will “Never Ever Serve”
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
... Barack Obama in the Senate, might get to etch another accolade into the monument he built for himself if this appointment goes through.
You see, Burris has already charted his esteemed career path on the walls of his future grave in Chicago’s Oak Woods Cemetery (pictured here). Beneath a seal of the state of Illinois, Burris lists his accomplishments to date, and there seems to be plenty of room above the bench to mention his career in the Senate - if he has one.
Politico:
Election Theft in Minnesota?
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... Minnesota law does not allow a certification of the result until the court cases are resolved and the Senate should let this process work out in the Minnesota Courts. A vote of the United States Senate to seat Franken without a certificate of election would prejudice any change Coleman has to win this case on appeal in Minnesota. Of course, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has already decided the case and declared that “Norm Coleman will never ever serve [again] in the Senate,” Reid told Politico’s Manu Raju. “He lost the election. He can stall things, but ...
Reid: Okay, But Only After I Cry And Stomp My Feet, Again
Riehl World View —
You have to love the new Reid headline on Coleman as Burris prepares to take his seat in the Senate. "Never ever" is so much more definitive and powerful than simply saying "never".
Reid: Coleman will "never ever serve"
The odds that Coleman will prevail in a court challenge are long, though there does look to be a solid equal protections argument behind the handling of absentee and disputed ballots. If Florida 2000 taught us anything, it's that courts like clearly stated "objective" standards in determining a ...
Ted Kennedy back in D. C.
Wizbang —
... , Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevitch's choice to fill President Elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat. At the same time, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was preparing the way for Al Franken to be sworn in as Minnesota's junior senator, despite a new lawsuit by challenger Norm Coleman questioning the state's hand recount procedure. Outside of the media circus there was a smaller, but no less remarkable, Senate victory. Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who is currently battling a brain tumor, ...
Those who don’t remember history…
No Runny Eggs —
... I don’t know how everybody in my overstuffed feed reader missed this one when Politico’s The Scorecard reported this gem of a quote from Senate Majority Leader “Dingy” Harry Reid (D-NV) on Monday: ...
Rolled by Roland?
Weekly Standard Blog —
... Durbin urged the Illinois Supreme Court to act quickly on this matter. Seating Burris without a signed certificate would open the door to doing the same for another would-be Democratic Senator— Al Franken, who will have to wait until Norm Coleman's lawsuits have run their course to get his from the state of Minnesota. Reid is, of course, anxious to seat Franken regardless of Coleman's legal contests, but seating Burris without a certificate would make that awkward display of Tuesday look even more silly and counterproductive than it already does. ...
Soothsayer Reid: Coleman “Will Never Ever Serve” Again In Senate
Nice Deb —
... Reid can apparently see into the future because he just told us that not only will Coleman definitely lose his court challenge, he will never ever run again for a MN Senate seat, and if he does, he’ll lose. ...
