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REID AND MCCONNEL PLAY CHICKEN, REID (AND FRANKEN) LOSE
By Ryan Flynn | January 6, 2009
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid yielded to Republican threats and agreed on Monday not to immediately seat fellow Democrat Al Franken, whose razor-close victory in Minnesota faces legal challenges (Source: Reuters, Monday, January 5, 2009).
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Senate Democrats have realized what we already know, Al Franken has not won this race. He is the beneficiary at this point of an artificial lead based on an inaccurate recount process.
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January 6th, 2009 at 8:30 AM
Your characterization is wildly misleading. Senate Democrats believe that Franken has won the race, and believe (correctly) that the recount process was accurate.
This wasn’t a game of chicken. Unless the way you played chicken growing up involved nothing more than civil discussion. Which, given your posts since you took over, is doubtful.
January 6th, 2009 at 8:39 AM
Last night I was watching Sean insHanitty, and that (cheney)in’ idiot had Karl Rove – KARL (CHENEY)IN’ ROVE – on, talking about “Democratic Scandals.”
The irony could not be clearer. Especially with Senate republiCons demanding Reid “follow the rules.”
Where’s the irony there, bootlickers surely are wondering, in their tiny reptillian minds.
Well, it’s obvious. Let’s look at an ABC News report from last year:
So, here you have a guy involved in a scandal, commenting on Faux News about scandals, who is ignoring a lawfully issued Senate subpoena, with today’s Senate republiCons whining that “rules need to be followed.”
Just more proof why GOP now stands for GreedOverPrinciples.
January 6th, 2009 at 8:44 AM
I couldn’t help but remind you; wasn’t it the complicitious Liberal Left-leaning Senator Coleman who just 3-4 months ago, once again crossed the aisle with compromising hands outstretched, who once again agreed with the Liberal Left, Radical Egalitarian, Godless Relativists within the Democrat Senate to this time endorse and support same-day, drive-by registration of otherwise unregistered (and likely, questionable) voters, citing the exemplararily positive experience we have had with it here in Minnesota?
How ironic, don’t you think? Kinda like “Yosemite Sam’s” support of McCain-Feingold and Campaign Finance Reform, huh? Too bad “Yosemite Sam” had to take Sarah down with him, but again, not much different than Norm Coleman taking the Conservatives among us down with him.
January 6th, 2009 at 9:00 AM
I hope the Coleman camp raises the 32 votes found in a car trunk,the 12 found in a box while looking for the infamous 133 ballots,the voting by non-citizens,especially the Somalis,the hundreds of college students who voted both in their home states and in MN,the pre-election tabulation of votes in St.Louis County,the collusion between the Secretary of States’s Office and the Franken team etc..
January 6th, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Can anyone on the right find me one example of any democrat saying definitively that they were going to seat Al Franken today? Not that they would LIKE to, or that they HOPED to, but that the plan was to seat him.
Just one.
(See Ryan, this is chicken. I have just called everyone on the right out. I have challenged you to prove me wrong, and when no one responds THEN you will see someone lose a game of chicken)
Bock Bock.
January 6th, 2009 at 10:23 AM
Actually, Harry Reid decided to FOLLOW THE RULES. Imagine that!
The Rules say that you don’t seat someone without certification. Franken doesn’t have certification yet. I doubt he expected to be seated today, nor did he even travel to DC (as far as I know).
Once Franken is certified, he’ll go to the Senate and the Senate will seat him. Not before. That’s the way it should be.
January 6th, 2009 at 1:56 PM
Bock Bock!
No republican appears able or willing to defend Ryan’s inane post here. I asked for one example of some saying in recent days that Al Franken WOULD be seated. Nor should be or would hopefully be, but WOULD be.
You see, to have a game of chicken, you need two objects in opposition. In this case, you scarcely have one.
Ryan is to MDE what Norm is to republicans statewide. That is, a giant anchor dragging the ship down.
January 6th, 2009 at 2:37 PM
Say, Leroy?
If you don’t get slapped to the pavement right away, it’s not because you won’t be; it’s just that not everyone is sitting in a plow truck waiting for a parking lot to clean.
Mocking liberal idiots (such as yourself) is fun, sure, but sometimes we have other things to do.
So go ahead, dolt…the floor is yours…more asshat chicken dance, please.
January 6th, 2009 at 3:53 PM
Thanks, Swiftee.
That is exactly what I wanted to hear.
This post is BS, and no one can deny it.
That is all.
January 6th, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Actually, here’s a Democrat willing to defend Ryan’s post. I know people working both sides of the election, and I knew that whichever side came up lacking would call foul and claim inaccuracies. I don’t know who actually won the election, but too many questions still remain to allow any results (and thus Franken claiming victory was premature and in poor taste).
January 6th, 2009 at 4:39 PM
Oh, and Tommy? Give it a rest- you’re making the rest of us look bad with your name-calling. You aren’t impressing anyone, and you’re not helping the cause.
January 6th, 2009 at 6:54 PM
Two Putz,
You’re as much a lawyer as you are a scholar. Clearly the White House has executive privilege as to the internal deliberations at the White House and Congress has no legal autority, under the separation of powers, to insert itself into those matters. If Rove were breaking the law by not cooperating with the subpoena, then why has he not been arrested or otherwise compelled to comply?
I can see why you’re going a little batty today, given what happened in the Senate. It’s an outrage that Dingy Harry blocked the legal appointment of Roland Burris to the U.S. Senate. They probably didn’t even allow him to use the drinking fountains or the restrooms in the Capitol either. It’s pretty sad that the only way Mr. Burris can get a seat is to go to a Denny’s. The racism and hypocrisy of people on the left, like Reid, never ceases to amaze me.
January 6th, 2009 at 6:58 PM
P.S. What’s even more ironic is that the Secretary of State, who refuses to comply with the administrative requirement of his office, mainly to sign the appointment certificate, is named Jesse WHITE. So two White guys are keeping an African American out of the U.S. Senate. Great work, Democrats!
January 8th, 2009 at 10:28 AM
If Rove were breaking the law by not cooperating with the subpoena, then why has he not been arrested or otherwise compelled to comply?
Because Boy Blunder’s Plunderers still control the inJustice Department, dumbshit.
Damn, you bootlickers are stupid.
You should wake the (cheney) up, Chris.
January 8th, 2009 at 10:30 AM
Say, Tony? If you don’t want to fight fire with fire, don’t.
Me? (cheney) ‘em – I’m happy to jump down into the gutter with these bootlickin’ rightwingnuts.
But, since we’re conversing, why do you suppose those assholes hate America so much?