Franken is in way over his head. So he'll fit in well with the other ham-fisted empty-headed Democrats in the Senate.

Ahh, the court-jester has arrived! Entertain us curly-haired one!

Yippee!  Now Dems, get to work, or you will be out of work!

ENOUGH of this sun-up to sun-down coverage of MJ!  

At least Minnesota is finally fully represented in Congress.  People may razz him because of his stint on SNL, it will be determined at a later date at what kind of Senator he ends up being and that is the real truth!

The Democrats in the Senate better get used to Al's hugging, he's going to do it everyday. Especially you Landrieu.

So Durbin thnks it would be a bad idea to seat Franken on his committee on the grounds that they had done too much work.  Guess we can read into this how much he thinkds of Franken; does he not think Franken kept up with what was going on in the Senate?

Actually, I think Durbin's right.  Maybe they can put Franken in charge of getting coffee and pastry.  How badly could he screw that up?

I only wish Minnesota voters didn't have such a 'what the heck' attitude about elections.  They want to play games with their state and elect a wrestler?  So be it-those with brains can move out of state.  But to inflict their special brand of 'humor' on the whole country is quite another matter.

Franken has about the same intellect as Burris from Illinois. In fact, most midwest Senators seem to be rather dimwitted. Must be all that coal they burn for fuel, it affects what little minds they have.

I don't know what kind of senator Al Franken will be but I give him all the credit in the world for entering the public arena and representing the people of his state.  Let's all judge him on the work he does in the Senate instead of derisively calling him a comedian, as if that means he has no intelligence.  I'd like to know the number of posters here who are Harvard grads--or as we say at my alma mater, Harvard-the Vanderbilt of the North!  Congratulations, Senator Franken.

It's only fitting that a clown be the 60th vote for the Democrats. Kind of puts the icing on the cake.

Ok so no whining now Dems.  You have the numbers to run the table.  The GOP can't stop you numerically.  You can be critical of all the past policies you want, but in the end the solutions to our problems are yours to come up with, and yours to sell to the country.  The country's continued failure or renewed success rests squarely in liberal's court.  Don't screw the pooch.

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from earlier:

Nashville,

So essentially where we disagree (and this would probably apply to everything we disagree on politically) is that you think that congress and the president should get their act together and deliver the services they have been promising and do it efficiently.  But to begin you just want someone to actually deliver said services and iron out the kinks as we go.  Would that be correct?

Where I just don't trust either congress or the President to take care of me, and would rather contend with the potential catastrophe of being responsible for myself than have to jump through whatever beurocratic hoops I have to jump through to gain the benefits of government service (granted not everthing is diffcult to get i.e. roads and education, but then you issues of quality of the service that have to be addressed).

I guess the glaring problem I have with this communal service view of government is I can't opt out of any of it.  Obviously for things like roads and law enforcement and the court system I want to pay taxes to maintain those things, but stuff like funding a destructive foreign policy and, Social Security, and health care, and education...well I'd like to be able to exclude myself somehow, but I can't.  It's all compulsory, and even if I decide to not utilize the service I have to pay for it for someone else (which is kind of like a la carte' socialism).

If the federal gov't wanted to offer a competing service that's fine but it should compete on the same playing field as the private industries, and fianance this service in the same manner.  I mean if it really is the corrupt corporations that are taking advantage of foks then government should be able to offer the service void of that corruption for the actual cost.

Folks can call me greedy, but I don't see how you can call us a free country when we force people to participate in something they disagree with, or even find immoral.  

I mean my tax dollars finance war and the killing of innocent people.  I don't like that, but I have to participate or the IRS will come after me.  By the way they don't need a warrant anymore, and either does the FBI.  But I have to keep funding this broken system, and not only that I'm called a right wing nut job when I express that I don't want to burden my kids and grandkids with this same kind of mismanagement.  

What is it like 12 - 13% of the budget is Military funding?  So that's the amount of my income taxes that goes towards unconstitutional war?  That is something that doesn't change from president to president by the way.  They all get involved.  Republicans like to nation build, and dems like to police the wolrd with the U.N.  Both are undeclared acts of war...ok I kind of ranted at the end there sorry  

Harkin was heard mumbling to Feinstein, "The man smells of pickles!".

>>>jawillie-I'm calling you out on the racist comment.

I wish to heaven the moderators would do a better job of screening comments-decent people are offended, and those who are not get the idea that their racism is somehow acceptable.

In order to eradicate racism completely, it must be unacceptable from ANYONE, be the color of their skin white, black, brown or purple; be their politics right, left, or center.

Bigotry in all its forms is vile; jawillie, you should be ashamed of yourself.
no joe, no bo, nj (Sent Tuesday, July 07, 2009 10:28 AM)
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I'm afraid you'll have to elaborate on this, as I have only put two comments on the boards today, (and none yesterday) none of them having to do with race.  I fear you may have been taken in by someone co-opting my screen name.

This is why we need comment registration here.

http://jawillie.blog.com

We getting free stuff, free stuff, free stuff! We're getting free stuff and we're taking it from the rich!

The book may be closed but the vulgar comic a.k.a. "The Freakin' Franken Joker" continues as newest fool on the Hill.  After but a few days, this snide foul mouth will be back to his core personality and behavior patterns.  Hey, FR, hows about posting a photo of his beloved Fannie so that Letterman can dredge up a continuous stream of muck on her?

FR: "Harry Reid of Nevada, added that it would be unfair to Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat who has been working on the panel temporarily, to replace him with Franken during a time of such intense legislative activity."

Yeah, the Democrats are getting to the "How do we steal more money from the taxpayers?" section, and they don't want anyone new screwing that part up.

Once, again, congratulations Senator Franken. It is true good things are worth waiting for. Now show your stuff. It looks like you'll have plenty to do.

Can't wait to see Franken in action on the Sotomayor confirmation hearings.

Biden swear the goof in? Check for your wallet Joe, Franken steals stuff.

At least one time in our lives, we all deserve to be as happy as Al is today.  Embrace these moments!!

Did a calliope play in the background, you know, like they have at all the three ring circuses?

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