Analysis: Franken doesn't guarantee Dems success

SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER, 6/30/2009 WASHINGTON (AP) - Al Franken's victory in the marathon Minnesota Senate race gives Democrats control of 60 seats, the number needed to overcome any Republican filibuster aimed at blocking elements of President Barack Obama's ambitious agenda. Read more at Seattle PI for a number of interesting challenges facing Democrats,,,

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Change? You Asked for It...

WASHINGTON POST, 5/15/2009 by Michael Kinsley - Even some loyal Democrats are feeling queasy about what will happen if, as seems likely, Al Franken wins the endless dispute over that Senate seat from Minnesota. With Arlen Specter's recent conversion, that would give the Democrats 60 seats, or three-fifths of the Senate, which is a filibuster-proof majority. With a Democratic majority in the House and a Democratic president, suddenly politics seems like a more serious business. Read more at the Washington Post..

Hat tip: John H. Detweiler
John says, "The Democrats chased the truck until they caught it. Now they have to do something with it. If this wasn't so serious, it would be delicious." Read More......

Minnesota: Coleman/Franken court case

Voters ask court to add absentees to Minn. recount

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Minnesota voters testified Tuesday their ballots had been unfairly rejected as Republican Norm Coleman argued thousands of disqualified absentee ballots should be counted in the U.S. Senate race.

"Perhaps my signature is not as good as it once was," Gerald Anderson, of St. Paul, told the three-judge panel hearing Coleman's lawsuit. "It gets cloudy and crooked. I am 75 years old." But that shouldn't have disqualified his vote, he said: "I want it back. I'm entitled to my vote." Read full article at Breitbart News...

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Soros wants Coleman out of the Senate

By Ed Lasky
George Soros is the biggest sugar daddy of the Democratic Party, and naturally wants to ensure that the Democrats have a monopoly of power in America. Recently, I wrote an article for American Thinker on the role that George Soros has played in helping the Democrat Al Franken in his race against the Republican incumbent Norm Coleman for a Senate seat in Minnesota.

However, there may be one other reason that Soros was determined that Norm Coleman in particular lose his seat. This was personal.

Norm Coleman was the chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and as such took a leading role in uncovering and investigating the United Nations oil-for-food scandal. Coleman was the leader in the Senate when it came to scrutinizing the operations of the United Nations; he appeared frequently in the media. The United Nations had never before come under such public criticism in the Senate. The mandarins and their fellow travelers were made very uncomfortable by the work of Senator Coleman. Read more at American Thinker... Read More......

Re: Minnesota Recount

Ann Coulter asks, "What is the point of having a hand recount of ballots in the Minnesota Senate race if the Democratic secretary of state is going to use the election night totals in precincts where it will benefit Democrat Al Franken?" Read more at Human Events Read More......