He couldn't boost Air America's nearly nonexistent ratings back when he actually had something to say.

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“Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests.” - Lord Palmerston

Actually it went down even further..
You gotta reaaaaallly be a Republican hater to listen to more than a couple sentences of this moron.
Franken is only slightly above Michael Moore in credibility...just amazing that enough people voted this guy in...incredible.

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The government cannot give without first taking.

It seems to me his competition made it not only possible but even probable, e.g.,

and

This same old shit speaks for itself, and that is just the holier than thou conversions of conveniences and self-serving citations of Higher endorsement. Sometimes races are just a nose grabber, so the voter has only a choice of who they think is worse or voting third party or themselves in like ThorHammer did IIRC (a vote I believe he felt was well cast in that race). Coleman already proved that he stunk, so enough probably felt that they had nowhere else to go but up by picking Franken.

What amazes me instead is the kinds of choices so often available on a ballot given population size, etc. Mathematically, great candidates should always be on the ballot, but alas....

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I didn't like Al Franken's radio show: he seemed to ramble on about nonsensicle stuff. He is an itelligent man however. Perhaps he can use some of it now be a good representative.

I th really think that the cadidate chhoice question is one of good poeple not wanted to get involved in the constant feeding frenzie and having to back through their lives from birth.

Agreed, but I'm not sure who we'll we crying about more, Bush or Obamination.

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"I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic." - Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton April 28th, 2003

Carolina Politics Online

HOPE AND CHANGE

Well good for Al. He's good enough, smart enough, and gosh darn it people like him.

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"I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic." - Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton April 28th, 2003

Carolina Politics Online

HOPE AND CHANGE

I think Ronnie might have liked him if mommy had told him to.

I for one love it...

I hope he votes lock step with the rest of the democrats.

the fact he gives them 60 votes means ANYTHING that passes as a law now soley lies at the feet of the democrats.

taxes, cap and trade, federal health care....

2010 is going to be a good year to run as a conservative.

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"A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers." -Ronald Reagan

Yeah. Hey, why don't you try runnning in 2010?

I absolutely love good slapstick.

60 seats, and were it not for GOP stupidity, us Dems would have had to wait til 2013 to be in this position.
Not only that but the GOP Senatorial fund has wasted a couple of million dollars keeping Franken out of the seat he won for 5 months. Time for Franken to hand his lawyers bill over to the GOP for prompt payment, I sure hope he retained nothing but the finest highest priced lawyers in the nation, and I hope they put in long hours on coming up with the strategy to win an election where the votes had already been counted and their man was ahead. Because the thought of all that GOP cash being paid to Democrats puts a warm glow on the evening.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/us...a.html?_r=1&hp

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“ The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.”

Adam Smith , The Wealth of Nations 1776

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"
FDR's second Inaugural Address

Before Franken and the rest gets too smug, he should ask himself if he would even be competitive in Minnesota now.

Anything but Bush wasn't terribly smart to begin with, be now that we know exactly what we got, its the definition of moronic.

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January 21, 2013: The End of an ERROR.

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."
"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."
"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
---Benjamin Franklin

Well my slow friend I am not lamenting this fact. I think it is fantastic that the liberals have sent Stuart Smiley to the senate. It shows you people for the mentally ill freaks you are.

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Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.
Jefferson Davis

W will look like Thomas Jefferson compared to the Chimp you people put iin office who is actively attacking our nation and economy.

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Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.
Jefferson Davis

"The definition of moronic?" Really? How?

Minnesota has a long and proud progressive tradition. I see this as being consistent with their history.

Ben

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To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

President Theodore Roosevelt
1918

I dont really beleive the "you smoked pot in college, so you should always be for it" argument. People grow up. Drugs are bad.

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-Thomas Jefferson