READER COMMENTS ON
"GOP Sen. Promises 'WWIII' if Franken Legally Seated Before Federal Appeal, New Suit by Coleman"
(61 Responses so far...)
COMMENT #1 [Permalink]
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Floridiot
said on 3/30/2009 @ 1:12 pm PT...
Big Bad John Cornholyn is a joke of a man...narra at the shoulda an broad at the hip no man alive could evah lie through his lip...like big John.
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FreedomOfInformationAct
said on 3/30/2009 @ 1:31 pm PT...
"GOP Senator Promises 'WWIII' if Franken is Legally Seated Before Coleman's Federal Appeal(s)"
This is blatant Obstruction of Justice, interfering with the legitimate due process of elections.
In our America, we refer to that as seditious and treasonous. Oust that GOP senator and michelle bachman for her talk of revolution and war!!!
Hold them accountable for their actions, NOW!!!
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J. Bamboo Harvester Ph D.
said on 3/30/2009 @ 1:37 pm PT...
Long John Cornhole Cornyn doesn't want Stewart Smally running around the Senate ... too tempting ... perhaps it gets him excited and mite sadle jack'em on the floor. . .
BTW ~ Norm coleman this is one hell of a way to salvage ya legacy ... Grown Up, Ass Hat ...
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ANTONIO
said on 3/30/2009 @ 2:32 pm PT...
Dems----please don't talk about sore losers-you guys are still whining about Gore losing TO bUSH.
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Cornhole Bob
said on 3/30/2009 @ 2:54 pm PT...
I once took a tour of the Minnesota airport restroom, dropped the toilet paper and lo and behold, a US senator was making "hand puppet" gestures under the stall divider. I was obliged to make a citizen's arrest right then and there.
The rest is history of course. And what a good deed indeed. CNN named me a "hero" on Anderson 360, Wolf Blitzer called and asked how my mother was doing this year, well, you get the picture, nobody was even remotely interested in Stuart Smalley. Bejesus, it just goes to show you, you can't trust any US senator these days. Tyranny and Sedition I say! Bring back the Guillitine and off with their heads! Let them eat cake! I just love the good old days and of course, the one and only Jim Nabors aka Gomer Pyle USA. I love me some good Gomer Pyle late at night. Puts me right to sleep. Nighty nite, Babs Bush! xoxo Larissa P. WillCock Throaterson
[The rest of your comments on this thread have been deleted for failure to observe our few and reasonable commenting rules. --99]
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Karen
said on 3/30/2009 @ 3:16 pm PT...
I am SO sick of the GOP!! Wah, wah, wah, wah…. All they do is spend their time b*tching and gripping about every little think that doesn’t go their, like a bunch of babies!
Instead of coming up with solutions to anything, they’d rather play politics.
The GOP has proven to be nothing but an GRUMPY OLD PUSSIES (GOP)!!!
WHAT A BUNCH OF LOSERS!
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Agent 99
said on 3/30/2009 @ 3:20 pm PT...
Oh! Look what you started, Flo. Now we gotta endure a whole thread of coarse commentary. As you know, I don't have any problem with foul language, but I start going crazy when it veers in the direction of smut and sexism and racism....
I don't know why some have so much trouble discerning the differences in these! Maybe people ought to study up on Lenny Bruce a little more. He died that we might curse our heads off, but stood for decency, real decency, not fake, not disingenuous, but fundamentally real decency, at the same time.
COMMENT #8 [Permalink]
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Agent 99
said on 3/30/2009 @ 3:24 pm PT...
Karen, I'm sick of both parties. All political parties. Our government is broken, and Al Franken isn't going to fix it. His eventual seat as a Senator might be a victory for election integrity, but the Democrats are as thoroughly reprehensible as the Republicans when it comes to governance. That is being made more plain by the day.
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Frank Allen
said on 3/30/2009 @ 3:31 pm PT...
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Dave M.
said on 3/30/2009 @ 3:38 pm PT...
GOP=
THE PARTY OF NO
THE PARTY OF WHINERS
THE PARTY OF COMPLAINERS
THE PARTY OF SMEARS
THE PARTY OF LIES
THE PARTY OF GREED
THE PARTY OF NOTHING!
I JUST WISH THEY WOULD DISAPPEAR OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH!
If the GOP keeps this (and all their other childish ranting) up, they can say goodbye to congress for many years to come…
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT SOLUTIONS, NOT POLITICAL GAMES!
THIS IS THE REASON WHY THE GOP HAS A 25% APPROVAL RATING
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Max Tollens
said on 3/30/2009 @ 3:40 pm PT...
I don't see this as being a "sore loser", this is all political as usual. Certain ballots are counted while certain ballots are thrown out; certain counties have recounts and others aren't recounted. Bull pucks! Re-count 'em all or have another election; how does the vote count have such a crazy swing in numbers from the day after election day until the present day? Franken's people kept counting and recounting; disqualify here and allow there until they ended up with the outcome THEY wanted. This is OUR country, not these schmucks that want to enrich themselves instead of representing us. I'm still awaiting the "change" we were promised; as The Who sang, "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss". We've been fooled again.folks.
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Anybody BUT Obama
said on 3/30/2009 @ 3:45 pm PT...
This is an "Independent" blog?!? Sure and Obama has years of experience governing! And you want donations to read this junk?!? Typical Dem stuff - whine, bitch, moan and complain - want some cheese to go with that whine?
COMMENT #13 [Permalink]
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Brad Friedman
said on 3/30/2009 @ 3:45 pm PT...
Antonio said (to "Dems" I guess):
Dems---please don't talk about sore losers-you guys are still whining about Gore losing TO bUSH.
Except Gore didn't lose to Bush, unless you consider receiving more votes in Florida [PDF], as well as the rest of the nation to be "losing".
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Alan
said on 3/30/2009 @ 3:47 pm PT...
I am an Independent and I too believe the GOP is on it’s way out.
The Obama Administration is spending time on the things that matter most, while the GOP seems to be spending time on making sure *THEY* WIN, ANYWAY *THEY* CAN! The GOP is not concerned about the American people, as much as they are concerned about *THEIR* 401Ks and *THEIR* stock. Obama inherited this MESS that Repubs left behind! If they had all the answers, the economy wouldn’t be in the shape it is in, today. At least OBAMA is trying to get us out of the hole. The Democrats are offering solutions, while the GOP is just whining and complaining.
GOP=
GREED
OPPOSITION
POWERLESS
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Ancient
said on 3/30/2009 @ 3:58 pm PT...
Wow 99, an I thought I looked like a fool for some of my rants. One thing I know is the fucking federalist are all out of tp at this point though!
COMMENT #16 [Permalink]
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cann4ing
said on 3/30/2009 @ 4:00 pm PT...
... ANTONIO said on 3/30/2009 @ 2:32 pm PT...
Dems----please don't talk about sore losers-you guys are still whining about Gore losing TO bUSH.
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The difference, Antonio, is that Gore did not actually lose. Exit-polls reveal that Gore won by about 435,000 votes, and exit-polls are so reliable that our own government uses them to judge the validity of foreign elections. Greg Palast, among others, exposed how Katherine Harris/ChoicePointe illegally purged nearly 90,000 mostly African-American democrats from FL's computerized voter rolls, and if you have paid any attention whatsoever to Brad Friedman's excellent work over the years, you would understand just how easy it was for the Bush men to steal the 2000 election through E-voting.
There is a vast difference between anger over illegal voter suppression and vote stealing and the gamesmanship team Coleman has played in a contest that they knew was bogus. Only those with ideological blinders could not appreciate the difference.
COMMENT #17 [Permalink]
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Brad Friedman
said on 3/30/2009 @ 4:03 pm PT...
Max Tollens wrote:
I don't see this as being a "sore loser", this is all political as usual. Certain ballots are counted while certain ballots are thrown out; certain counties have recounts and others aren't recounted.
Except that that's not what happened at all. The post election hand-count (recount) of all legal ballots occurred in all counties, the totals agreed upon by the bi-partisan state canvassing board (unanimously, I should add, in all but 18 ballots out of nearly 3 million cast) and the only votes NOT recounted, were the ones that Norm Coleman would not allow to be recounted (before later deciding that he wanted them counted).
Otherwise, ALL legally cast ballots were counted, with the exception of some where voters may have used incorrect procedures to registrar, by placing their registration form inside the absentee ballot secrecy envelope (those secrecy envelopes have since been opened, and the few hundred containing registration forms will likely be included in the final count from the bi-partisan 3-judge panel overseeing the election contest.)
Re-count 'em all or have another election;
See above. Unless you wish illegally cast ballots --- such as those made by forgers and felons on behalf of Norm Coleman --- to be counted, as Coleman's attorneys have argued in favor of.
how does the vote count have such a crazy swing in numbers from the day after election day until the present day?
It didn't. It barely "swung" at all. A few hundred legally cast votes, out of nearly 3 million cast were either read incorrectly at first by the faulty op-scan systems, or not counted at all for a variety of reasons. They were all counted later, and both candidates gained several hundred votes each.
Franken's people kept counting and recounting; disqualify here and allow there until they ended up with the outcome THEY wanted.
Wrong again. All counting of all ballots following the election was done publicly, transparently, and with members of all parties and the public watching. "Franken's people" didn't "[keep] counting" anything.
Unlike Antonio, above, I think you actually believe what you wrote. I'd not blame you, given the massive amount of disinformation that have been propagated by GOP officials and their henchmen. So hopefully my corrections to your massive misconceptions about what actually went on in MN will be helpful to you.
You're welcome.
COMMENT #18 [Permalink]
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Brad Friedman
said on 3/30/2009 @ 4:04 pm PT...
"Anybody But Obama" asked:
This is an "Independent" blog?!?
Yes.
COMMENT #19 [Permalink]
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Offlogic
said on 3/30/2009 @ 4:13 pm PT...
Let the sac-less GOP bluster. When the judges DO decide in Franken's favor, LEGALLY seat him, then issue a presidential finding that the GOP is a "terrorist organization", 'render' them to a "black site" in Morocco or Jordan, and have them "shot while trying to escape".
A fitting tribute to the Bush legacy.
COMMENT #20 [Permalink]
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ms
said on 3/30/2009 @ 4:18 pm PT...
Brad, please stop troubling the Reich-wingers with the facts! Remember, reality is what they make it --- which may explain the current situation, actually.
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Ancient
said on 3/30/2009 @ 4:24 pm PT...
Thanks Brad! I'm an Independent force to vote dem cuz of my states frickin primary rules!
COMMENT #22 [Permalink]
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Ancient
said on 3/30/2009 @ 4:27 pm PT...
Petition your state for THIRD PARTY BALLOT ACESS NOW!
COMMENT #23 [Permalink]
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chris c
said on 3/30/2009 @ 4:31 pm PT...
I still don't understand how you get a 200-300 vote swing after recounts. In 90%+ of all elections that have recounts because they fall within a certain percentage margin it always has gone to the vote leader, highly suspicious, dubious to say the least. Is the Daley machine active in Minnesota? We know radicals and extremists are in charge up there.
COMMENT #24 [Permalink]
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Orville T Gerhard
said on 3/30/2009 @ 4:35 pm PT...
The whining Republicans will do anything possible to steal an election. They don't believe in the Constitution.
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72dawg
said on 3/30/2009 @ 4:38 pm PT...
COMMENT #24 Orville T Gerhard: you are so right.
COMMENT #26 [Permalink]
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TIM
said on 3/30/2009 @ 4:42 pm PT...
GOP RULES !!!
NO COMMIECRATS !!!!
WE WILL BE A THIRD WORLD NATION . WITH THE DEMOCRATS AND THE ANTI-CHRIS IN POWER.
COMMENT #27 [Permalink]
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Ancient
said on 3/30/2009 @ 5:00 pm PT...
Chris #23, so how long dear have you let other people make your mind up for you instead of trying to use the brain cells god gave you? Get this, my radical ex's girlfriend works for the repubs in MN fund raising on the phone for them. I have nothing against her, really I want to see my ex happy, unlike some people. But what I take issue with is the fact people send her money because she's nice and talks a good game...DESPITE THEIR OWN BEST INTEREST.
COMMENT #28 [Permalink]
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Ancient
said on 3/30/2009 @ 5:07 pm PT...
#23
Oh yeah, I left him for our daughter's best interest and he agreed completely.
COMMENT #29 [Permalink]
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I Hate Normy
said on 3/30/2009 @ 6:19 pm PT...
The reiglicans will tie up the seat even if Normy goes all the way to the supreme court and loses.
They don't give a rat's behind about democracy or equal representation--they only want to play spoiler in the senate.
Typical douchebaggery.
COMMENT #30 [Permalink]
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michelle l.
said on 3/30/2009 @ 6:49 pm PT...
Let's see. The final vote count finally proved that Franken won, and Coleman's team refuses accept it?
So Coleman's team realizes the longer they can drag things out, the media and general public will lose interest, as will the citizens of Minnesota. Then Coleman's team can move on other plans and schemes to give their man the seat.
And historically they've learned that if they disapprove of results of a democratic election process, then they can attain their goals via other means whether dragging it out over time, challenging the issue through use of judicial processes or forcing gubernatorial decisions.
Is this what's happening here? So politics is a scheming game for strategists and money men?
Where does this leave the working people of Minnesota who had the faith in the system and took time to vote?
And when will all elections be decided by judicial processes, appointments, and/or political strategists–– and democratic voting processes be terminated altogether?
That's exactly where these guys are headed.
You've got to give it to these guys. They're crafty to say the least, and to them the voting public apparently doesn't matter, until it comes time for them to rape and slave the working classes for tax revenue––or sell their jobs out overseas and then cut off their healthcare!
("Why does it cost $375 million to win a job that pays $400,000?")
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Aunt Tillie
said on 3/30/2009 @ 6:57 pm PT...
COMMENT #32 [Permalink]
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Agent 99
said on 3/30/2009 @ 8:08 pm PT...
Just lovely.
I love my life.
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R.C.A.
said on 3/30/2009 @ 8:26 pm PT...
Its interesting that, in 2000, the votes of 5 of the 6 Republicans on the Supreme Court ended the recount on December 12, installing Bush as president. Despite the fact that there were still 39 days left before the inauguration, and there was nothing in the Constitution that set any deadline for deciding. The only similar circumstance was an 1876 legal precedent in which the final decision was not made until a few days before the inauguration. And the presidential inauguration back then was in March 1877! A full 4 months after the election. So obviously the 2000 recount delay was also legal.
The Supreme Court in 2000 completely concocted the "need" to end the recount, simply because it wanted to install Bush.
Now, all of a sudden, the Republicans, after 5 months of a election dispute process the Coleman camp itself even said was fair and not partisan, are saying, "you can't swear in Franken even if he wins the Minnesota Supreme Court decision. There is NO LEGAL DEADLINE at all for our appeals."
The corruption and hypocrisy of the Republicans is still amazing after these 8 years.
COMMENT #34 [Permalink]
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michelle l.
said on 3/30/2009 @ 9:53 pm PT...
What's confusing is how they're continuing getting away with it, and why they're so dead-set on the win.
There's obviously more to gain in holding public office than being a public servant and representing the rights and concerns of American citizens.
But until the public wakes up and demands a straight-up, conscientious and responsible MSM media that delivers fair, unbiased FACT, and elected officials and representatives who take Constitutional and democratic issues seriously, Americans will be kept in the dark––and railroaded with taxes and abuse like a mile-long, derailed freight train.
As it is the MSM is the fourth branch of dirty politics, and that it's dying is because Americans can see through the BS. A toast to the dying MSM: R.I.P.!
I still can't get over the fact "elected public servants" have allowed the American People to be robbed, of their jobs, their homes, their retirement incomes, their healthcare..... and never compensated or paid back, while the ungrateful, unpatriotic American big boys sail away on their Golden Parachute ships to find cheap slaves to do their work elsewhere.
R.C.A. thanks for an informative comment. How are they getting away with all of this? It's incredible.
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Big Dan
said on 3/30/2009 @ 10:39 pm PT...
Remember Catherine Harris sat the Bush delegates before everything was decided in 2000?
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blubonnet
said on 3/30/2009 @ 10:43 pm PT...
I just hope they don't have "one of their boys" in the governmental offices that process, and participate in the final decisions. I'd quite honestly put nothing past them. Without conscience is an understatement with the mafioso Reptilian party.
Brad, I especially appreciate the precise explanations, civil presentations, and obvious full understanding you've been bringing to all of us here,this information, and thanks for offering those "seemingly" much less aware into awareness, in such a respectful manner! I'm not sure I could have stayed as cool headed. I often wonder who gets paid to come along and dump misinformation into sites. Everyone knows nowadays that those human propaganda props are an astonishing actuality. I'd bet the RNC has their own propaganda militia out on the "internets". In contrast to the most recent deployment to
Afghanistan, I wonder what the RNC's numbers are...?
COMMENT #37 [Permalink]
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MS
said on 3/30/2009 @ 11:03 pm PT...
Shouting TIM @ #26:
"...THE ANTI-CHRIS IN POWER"? You've got to narrow it down a bit more than that, bud. There are a lot of us opposed to Chris Matthews!
COMMENT #38 [Permalink]
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blubonnet
said on 3/30/2009 @ 11:24 pm PT...
I haven't watched Matthews lately, so, excuse me, but, did Chris Matthews actually start leaning the opposite direction in the recent couple of months? He was pro-Obama, last I saw.
Maybe I didn't understand something...?
COMMENT #39 [Permalink]
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Meremark
said on 3/31/2009 @ 12:56 am PT...
chris c said on 3/30/2009 @ 4:31 pm PT: "I still don't understand how ...."
No, no you don't, c.c.troll. Remember, what you don't understand makes you don't matter.
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Isn't Coleman going to have to again fly in a plane somewhere ... someday? Also Cornyn?
COMMENT #40 [Permalink]
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Floridiot
said on 3/31/2009 @ 2:25 am PT...
What site picked this up I wonder?
I haven't seen that many braindead goopers here since...?
Good humor from the idjicated masses, lol.
Must be drinking Brawndo, "its got electrolytes" and watching "ow my balls" on TV.
Seriously, that is where this country is headed.
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Margaret Thatcher
said on 3/31/2009 @ 7:03 am PT...
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ANTONIO
said on 3/31/2009 @ 7:07 am PT...
so for all who say Gore won, show some proof he won the electoral college; don't give me exit polls, if they were accurate, Kerry would have been president( God forbid); get over the whining about it, start worrying about your new man in charge- just a matter of time before Repubs. get back in power. The disgrace that we call a Sec. of State now says that the world doesn't like the term War on Terror ; this will just put us on the road to diaster, but I'm sure the terrorists feel better now that we have chenged the wording of all our securit terms. Maybe they'll stop all their plans of destroying us.
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Antonio's Mother
said on 3/31/2009 @ 7:40 am PT...
COMMENT #44 [Permalink]
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Brad Friedman
said on 3/31/2009 @ 10:05 am PT...
Antonio @ 42:
I already left you a link to proof, in comment #13, NOT BASED ON EXIT POLLING, that Gore won Florida, and thus, the electoral college in 2000. Did you not bother to read it?
Seems my kindness and patience knows no bounds, I'll offer you that link again. It's here, as posted at the conservative American Enterprise Institute:
https://web.archive.org/...0040526_KeatingPaper.pdf
It's the final report of the consortium of universities and media outlets who, after the dust had settled on the 2000 election, actually when in to count the ballots in FL.
In short: Their examination of all of FL's ballots showed that Gore received more votes than Bush. That had the U.S. Supreme Court NOT shut down the FL Supreme Court's order to recount the entire state, Gore would have been the winner.
That would have been true by every conceivable counting standard applied (hanging chads, pregnant chads, etc.)
The irony, of course, is that they found had they only counted the few counties where Gore had requested a recount, Bush would have won. But had they counted the entire state, as Bush wanted (and as the FL Supremes agrees), Gore would have won.
Okay? I'll accept your apology and thanks in advance, in regard to your silly comment that "if they were accurate, Kerry would have been president", since the ballots were indeed accurate, but only if you bothered to actually count them, which your Republican friends went to great pains to avoid.
As they've lied to you about it for so many years, I'm not surprised at all you didn't understand otherwise. Now you have no more excuses, known that your heroes have played you for a chump, and so hopefully you'll come to the Light Side of the Force (not the Democratic side, the Light Side).
Thanks!
COMMENT #45 [Permalink]
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blubonnet
said on 3/31/2009 @ 11:19 am PT...
How is it that cartoon characters have invaded this otherwise bright and information rich site? I'm all for making these exchanges light hearted if possible, but I don't want to revisit junior high school. Pornographic verbal posts are also diminishing of the great work done by Brad here. The Right wingers would love to find any reason to regard those that come here, and our stands, and of course, Brad's fine work, as foolish, let's not give the Right wing any ammunition to trivialize this site here. Of course, it might be Rightwingers that come here and act childish. Would not put it past them.
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Big Dan
said on 3/31/2009 @ 4:57 pm PT...
Antonio probably got lost, and should be on Rush Limbaugh's blog. A "non-reality based" blog.
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Big Dan
said on 3/31/2009 @ 4:59 pm PT...
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mike
said on 4/1/2009 @ 6:27 am PT...
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nyouc
said on 4/1/2009 @ 9:43 am PT...
How do you get "Over Votes". lose votes,If i'm Colman i clame all those lost votes were for me, Tell Franken to prove their not! What a mess, Was this election state wide? why is each countys rules different? Way more hanging chads in Minnesota
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Ingrid
said on 4/1/2009 @ 1:05 pm PT...
Why is it that when the Dems do something the entire GOP makes a BIG stink about it but when a Republican does or say something, no one speaks up about it...
I am no fan of either political party....HOWEVER, the GOP is, in my personal opinion, naster than the other one.
Under the previous administration, talk like the one below could lead to jail! I think a BIG stink needs to be made about her comments as well as that of Fox Not-News idiot Hannity.
These are 'terrorist' statements and they are alo inciting people to commit violence...worse yet, overthrowing the government and possibly killing the President!
http://uncoverthenews.co...nn-urges-armed-uprising/
Congresswoman Bachmann Urges Armed Uprising
Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann ® Minnesota became the first prominent Neocon to openly call for the violent overthrow of the Obama administration. During an impassioned interview with fellow Neocon and FOX host Sean Hannity Representative Bachmann abandoned rhetoric and urged armed insurrection. Bachmann seems expressive of a growing sentiment amongst neocons, that the only hope to save America as they see it, may lie with supporters taking to the streets.
What is beyond speculation is the fact since the election of America’s first African American President, thousands of white supremacist, Neo Nazi’s and separatist’s, who ordinarily do not play well together, have begun to forge alliances of common purpose. It is unknown at present if representative Bachmann is directly evolved with any tactical planning such groups may be engaged in, beyond the show of moral support and financial contributions individual members offer in the form of contributions to her campaign. Mr. Hannity on whose show representative Bachmann made the public call to arms, was the first prominent member of the conservative media to actually provide a direct link to websites that polled folks of a like mind on what type of revolution might be effective.
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William Billingsley
said on 4/1/2009 @ 1:14 pm PT...
Brad, after reading your emotion-filled post, along with the comments you made in defending your position, I can't understand how you can say this is an independent blog. It's okay to be partisan, which you clearly are, and it would give you more credibility to go ahead and admit it. You seem articulate, and it's obvious that you do your homework, at least enough of it to support your position, but the tenor of your comments - as well as a majority of the comments from your readers - are clearly anti-Republican. Admittedly, this is my first visit to your blog, so you may have been more independent in your comments before today, but what I've read here is clearly biased toward the Democrats.
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Ingrid
said on 4/1/2009 @ 1:20 pm PT...
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Troy Nolan
said on 4/1/2009 @ 2:24 pm PT...
Take that Texas senator out and tar and feather him then hang him in the good old boy fashion of the south.
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Richard Busic
said on 4/1/2009 @ 2:31 pm PT...
So the Texans are trying to steal another election? Why am I suprissed? Colman and all of the other Republicans who have a problem with a certified election are SORE LOSERS. Frankin is smarter than Coleman, and is not owned by big corporations who are after full control of the House and Senate. If a man is elected and not allowed to represent his constituants, why try to keep this government together? Lets start again. This time we should make it illegal to pull shenanigans. Make it a crime with long prison sentances to bribe (lobby) representitives. We could make the representitives represent the voters, not the "Special Intrests".
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Loretta
said on 4/1/2009 @ 2:32 pm PT...
Brad Friedman shut up for once. You think you know it all. Last I heard the newspapers in Fl checked the accurate ballots and said Bush did win Fl. Stop throwing around all your crap. As for Franken he is a joke and a slime of a man who could not keep Air America going and left owing many people lots of money which he has not paid. Worry about the annointed one who so far is doing a crappy job of running the country. It will be interesting to see how people who voted him in change on him. I hope they feel the pain that people are feeling. Next time I hope another 9/11 is in your backyard and not NY we have had enough of taking it on the chin for the rest of the country. ACORn had a hand in this election.
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Gary ONeal
said on 4/1/2009 @ 3:28 pm PT...
It seems simple to me, the threat of WWIII is a terrorist threat. The terrorist needs to be tried and imprisoned.
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Floridiot
said on 4/1/2009 @ 6:09 pm PT...
lol
Is that anything like putting your fingers in your ears and saying la la la la la?
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FreedomOfInformationAct
said on 4/1/2009 @ 8:30 pm PT...
Bring it on Neocons, we're ready to trounce you again in 2010!!!
COMMENT #59 [Permalink]
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Brad Friedman
said on 4/2/2009 @ 12:59 pm PT...
MYOUC said:
why is each countys rules different? Way more hanging chads in Minnesota
Wrong. The transparent post-election hand-count was quite orderly and there was unanimous agreement among the bi-partisan state canvassing board on all but just 18 ballots or so (out of 2.9 million cast). The rules in each county are the same, though because they are carried out by humans, they are not always applied exactly the same. Nonetheless, I'm sure Franken won't hold it against Coleman for all of the extra votes Coleman may have received due to the small variation in the application of the clear rules from county to county.
COMMENT #60 [Permalink]
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Brad Friedman
said on 4/2/2009 @ 1:05 pm PT...
William Billingsley said @ 51:
Brad, after reading your emotion-filled post, along with the comments you made in defending your position, I can't understand how you can say this is an independent blog. It's okay to be partisan, which you clearly are, and it would give you more credibility to go ahead and admit it.
Why should I, when it's not true?
You seem articulate, and it's obvious that you do your homework, at least enough of it to support your position, but the tenor of your comments - as well as a majority of the comments from your readers - are clearly anti-Republican. Admittedly, this is my first visit to your blog, so you may have been more independent in your comments before today, but what I've read here is clearly biased toward the Democrats.
While I can't speak to the "tenor...of the comments from [my] readers", as they are welcome to say what they wish and be as partisan as they like (if they like), you seem to be mixing up "anti-Republican" with partisanism. When I post an anti-Democratic party article, does that make me a partisan Republican?
And having a "bias" towards a correct position --- in this case, the Democratic one, in regard to this election --- somehow makes me a partisan?!
I'm happy to admit that you're likely to find far more GOP-bashing coverage here, than Dem bashing, but it's not out of partisanship. It's due to the fact that your party (presuming you're a partisan Republican) has been hijacked by a bunch of anti-democracy, anti-American, phony "conservative" thugs. Sorry if that's news to ya, and sorry if you've not seen anybody else call them out for that (but there are a huge number of real conservatives and real Republicans --- of the old school --- that have done exactly that, along with me).
Hope that helps! Don't be a stranger!
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Brad Friedman
said on 4/2/2009 @ 1:14 pm PT...
Loretta said @ 55:
Brad Friedman shut up for once. You think you know it all. Last I heard the newspapers in Fl checked the accurate ballots and said Bush did win Fl. Stop throwing around all your crap.
Guess you need to check back in again. Here's the report that you didn't bother to read, from all of those newspapers and academics showing that you're FL newspaper was wrong, and that Gore won FL (or, at least, had more people vote for him there):
https://web.archive.org/...0040526_KeatingPaper.pdf
BTW, that's not "my crap", that's the crap --- a report actually --- posted at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. Got a prob with it? Take it up with them, darlin'. Sorry you don't care for the facts within it, though. You are, as always, welcome to make up your own and enjoy a world o' fantasy all to yourself.
As for Franken he is a joke and a slime of a man who could not keep Air America going and left owing many people lots of money which he has not paid.
Really? Who?
Next time I hope another 9/11 is in your backyard and not NY we have had enough of taking it on the chin for the rest of the country.
And that pertains to any of this how exactly?!
ACORn had a hand in this election.
Really? Where? I'm surprised I hadn't heard about that, given the painstaking, bi-partisan ballot by ballot hand count of every ballot cast in the election, and the 4 months they've had to go over ever such vote. Hmmm...I wonder why Coleman's team didn't mention the "hand" that "ACORN" had in the election.
Be sure to contact them with your evidence ASAP! I'm sure they'd welcome it!