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Stuart Smalley Becomes A Senator
The Minnesota Supreme Court has decided left-wing kook Al Franken (Stewart Smalley) is the official winner of the contested Senate race against Republican Norm Coleman.
The Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered that Democrat Al Franken be certified as the winner of the state’s long-running Senate race, paving the way for a resolution in the seven-month fight over the seat.
The high court rejected a legal challenge from Republican Norm Coleman, whose options for regaining the Senate seat are dwindling.
Justices said Franken is entitled to the election certificate he needs to assume office. With Franken and the usual backing of two independents, Democrats will have a big enough majority to overcome Republican filibusters.
It says a lot about the state of our country that a low down piece of sh*t like Al Franken could even come close winning a Senate seat — much less actually win one.
However, the bright side of all this believe it or not is that democrats will have a filibuster proof majority.
The reason this is good is because it will hasten the downfall of the democrats and pave the way for a republican takeover of The House in 2010.
With no checks on their power, democrats will hang themselves. Regardless of what they claim, the “change” most people voted for didn’t include setting up a nanny state and bankrupting the country.
Democrats will overreach, and when they do republicans will come roaring back with a vengeance.
Video: Ted Kennedy Returns To Senate, Gets Standing Ovation
It’s good to see Sen. Kennedy back on his feet.
Trent Lott To Resign
Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi, the Senate’s No. 2 Republican, plans to resign his seat by the end of the year.
No reason for Lott’s resignation was given, but according to a congressional official, there is nothing amiss with Lott’s health. The senator has “other opportunities” he plans to pursue, the official said, without elaborating. Lott was re-elected to a fourth Senate term in 2006.
After the 2006 elections, when Democrats recaptured the Senate, Lott was put in charge of lining up and counting Republican votes as whip, the No. 2 job behind minority leader Mitch McConnell.
His 2006 comeback was an apt outlet for the Mississippian’s talents. He was the rare majority leader who seemed to relish the vote- wrangling duties that some of his predecessors loathed.
Lott becomes the sixth Senate Republican this year to announce retirement. Democrats effectively hold a 51-49 majority in the chamber, including two independents who align themselves with Democrats.
His retirement means that Republicans will have to defend 23 seats in next year’s election, while Democrats have only 12 seats at stake.
Mississippi’s Gov. Haley Barbour, a Republican, will appoint Lott’s temporary replacement, who will serve until the 2008 elections, when voters will elect someone to serve out the balance of Lott’s term, which runs through 2012.
Senate Overrides Bush Veto, Enacts Water Bill
The Senate voted overwhelmingly today for a popular $23 billion water projects measure affecting locales across the country, thereby handing President Bush his first defeat in a veto showdown with Congress.
The vote was 79 to 14, far more than the two-thirds needed to override the veto that President Bush cast last Friday. Only 12 Republicans voted against the measure, and just two Democrats, Senators Russ Feingold of Wisconsin and Claire McCaskill of Missouri.
Enactment of the water projects measure had been widely expected, despite the veto, given the importance of the bill to individual districts and, of course, the lawmakers that represent them. The measure embraces huge endeavors like restoration of the Florida Everglades and relief to hurricane-stricken communities along the Gulf Coast and smaller ones like sewage-treatment plants, dams and beach protection that are important to smaller constituencies.
Pelosi Irritated with Senate
Frustrated by lack of legislative progress in the Senate, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is increasingly touting Democratic achievements in the House.
Her statements represent a significant shift from the stance she took six months ago. In March, the Speaker celebrated the first 100 days of the congressional majority by stating, “Democrats have brought the winds of change to the Capitol.”
These days, she’s confined to claiming those winds are blowing on her side of the building. In the minds of her caucus members, the Senate is in the doldrums and House members are paying the price for Senate inaction on Democratic priorities.
When pressed on the slow progress of spending bills during ABC’s Sunday morning talk show “This Week,” Pelosi passed the buck to the Senate, saying, “In the House we’ve passed every one of our bills.”
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