Coleman concedes Senate race to Franken

Well, that's that.

Norm Coleman's obstructionist tactics didn't have anything to do with fairness, only to disrupt democracy for as long as possible because he knew he lost. Embarrassing, but why should he care, his career is over now anyway. So long [former] Senator!

This is the reason we should keep the electorial college..some people just can't be allowed to vote. How could any adult vote for this guy?

If George W. Bush were not such a total failure, we would not end up with people like Al Franken.

Consider the REAL clown already elected to national office (House of Representatives) by Minnesota, Michele Bachmann. When I read her thoughts about how conspiracies to send children away to political education camps are near, I find it easy to believe more right wing domestic terrorism (another Timothy McVeigh) is not far behind.

And idiots in this country bash Iran over their elections. It took this long to figure out who won a Senate race. Gimme a break!!

So if the agenda is a failure, the Democrats will happily admit that the veto-proof majority was useless, right? (crickets...) Somehow, in 2011, it will all be Bush's fault, somehow. Absolute power DOES corrupt absolutely, as we are about to be reminded. What happens when Obama gets the same respect from Americans that George Bush got? Does "winning" the culture wars make us safer? More prosperous? When do RESULTS start to count?

An outrageous decision. There was clear fraud committed here on behalf of Franken.

Coleman has to do the right thing for the country and his constituents - appeal this to the federal courts.

ed s (#7), you have by far the best response. thanks for bringing a smile to my face.

It's funny how conservatives like to not count votes and appeal to the Supreme Court to make sure the people's will is ignored. Then they cry when they don't get a chance to vote on gay marriage. Can us libs have little consistency?

I guess my conservative friends no longer believe in elections? "Govt. for the people by the people..."

To all you right-wing wackos out there who think the "obstructionist" Repugs are in the right by screwing with Minnesota's constitutional right to have full representation in the senate I say to you, "wake the heck up and smell the coffee!" What's wrong with you people? Unless you think that: an illegal war in Iraq that cost us hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of American lives with nothing to show for it was a good thing? Or, that the Bush tax cut for the top 1% (which is not most of you posting here) and a $700 billion dollar bailout for the fat cats on Wall Street (not one dime ever making to your pocket like in the Obama Stimulus Plan) was a good thing? The economy crashing and burning (causing most of you to be out of work) because Bush and Republicans decided to sell out American business to foreign entities and ship YOUR JOBS overseas--was that a good thing? Need I say more?

So, I hope Al Franken helps President Obama have a filibuster-proof US Senate and push through an agenda that actually thinks about AMERICANS for a lousy change! Of course if you are fan of Bernard Madoff, Ken Lay, or the guys at AIG who took YOUR MONEY and had a party with it in California then 2012 is right around the corner!

Franken won. Seat him.
Talk about Franken being a clown - what do you actually know about him? Anything???
You can't swing a dead cat in the Republican caucus without hitting a nutcase, an idiot or a self-rightious adulterer, so give us all a break and crawl back under your rocks.

Chuck, why wait for all those things on your wish list? you can have them NOW in any failing socialist nation in the world.

I wish him success as a Senator. He never had it as a, ah, comedian nor as a radio talk show host...

The rest of us will have to acquire a new-found familiarity with our ankles.

Funny how all the Conservatives scream and yell about supreme court involvment at the state and federal level when they are unable to steal an election like they did for Bush.

K, I concur with your post and am repeating it for emphasis; we already have a one-ring circus on Beacon Hill, don't need another one on Capitol Hill:

"As much as I like the Democratic party and it's ideals, I like the idea of debate and multiple parties in power. It seems that having two collections of crooks and liars sharing power is better than one collection of crooks and liars running things.
I would have the same comment if this was the Republicans having the same control."

What if every fetus saved by the Pro-Lifers grows up to be a Democrat?

In 2000, the Liberals in this country said "count all the votes" in an attempt to get illegal votes counted for Al Gore in Florida. In 2009 after they got the necessary illegal votes counted in the 2008 Minnesota Senatorial Election, they want all recounts stopped.

Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler would be proud as to how the Democratic Party has seized power in the United States today.

What a disgrace.

If Franken is seated, then the joke is on us and it will hurt.

Hey Thomas Dolby. What you are describing just happend in the past 8 years with your pal Bush and your fellow Republicans. Why do you think Obama was elected, and why do you think the Dems now have 60 seats? Everything Bush and the republican's touched went to hell. Economy, war, natural disaster response, outing a CIA agent.....don't let the door hit you on the way out. I hope you enjoy the national healthcare that you are about to receive.

Wasn't Franken one of the gorilla handlers in Trading Places?

Instead of this back and forth and back and forth, why wasn't a special election held? It would have been a better measure of what people want. I am skeptical of ANY race decided by a court. That includes George Bush/ Al Gore.

Sounds like Chuck is all greased up, bent over and anxious for his "agenda"

hey chuck,

Nice wish-list. If you were any further to the left, you'd be on the right...

We should elect him here in Ma, because we are the laughing staock of the country. Franken for Governor tax and spend, spend and tax, tax them and spend more.

I Love Taxachuessets. Come on at least lets have a real comedian instead of the clowns we have now.

To all conservatives and Republicans: ha ha ha!

Democrats have stolen another election. What a joke.

-----Minnesota elected a clown to the Senate-----

Yeah, well....Republicans elected a clown to the White House...for TWO terms. That trumps all....

Chuck, So let me get this straight. If some one doesnt agree with you they are less enlightended. Wow, I thought far right wing republicans were bad. Lib's are the same with different dogma. Crow while you can pal, but you will be paying for your liberal agenda for the rest of your life... and your childrens if the Obama administration alows you to breed.

Why can't we have a little "Compassionate Conservatism" as preached by your last Commander in Chief, George W. Bush and simply congratulate the winner. Instead, "There you go again!!" as Ronald Reagan once said, and have to be dragged away from the toy box screaming at the top of your lungs. Let's get on with some "Intelligent Leadership" - President Barack Obama and finally address the WILL OF THE PEOPLE for a change.

So Franken's a socialist huh? Yeah, right. He's a socialist because Rush Limbaugh says he is and nut-jobs can't think for themselves, let alone define "socialist."

Just when you thought things couldn't get worse. I feel bad for all the other senators. Can you imagine spending any amount of time with this joker. The title of SENATOR just got knocked down a few pegs.

"great. now it will be all the easier for b. hussein obama and pelosi to bankrupt our country. "

Well said Mark "Mister Anne Coulter" Shiro

#24 I love how "Chuck" lists "Don't ask don't tell" as his #2 reason why he is excited.

We see right through you Chuck. ( Not that there's anything wrong with that!)

Hey Chuck, could you send me a copy of that list? I didn't get it at the last meeting where we plotted the downfall of America and the outlawing of baseball and apple pie. You can use the usual channels...

Glad that mess is finally over and that dunderhead Coleman is done...

Chuck - you are really a sick person if you are think "Unlimited abortions for all trimesters" is a good thing.

THANK YOU MR FRANKEN ... ODDS IN VEGAS WERE 4-1 !!!! I JUST WON $$2OOO DIMES ... WOW WHAT A COUNTRY... THANK YOU MR. JONES!!!!!!

I don't listen to the guy, but the Big Fat Idiot, as Franken once called him, must be having a field day.

I just hope he's a better senator than he is a comedian!

Better a clown than a crook. You filthy Repubs

The State of Minnesota deserves what it gets.

And I thought the Massachusetts voters were the stupidest in the country. We have nothing on the Minnesota Moonbats. Hopefully his term will be short.

People seem to forget Bush and the Republicans and what they did when they were in control. Lied about why we had to go to war, sat back while a major American city was destroyed and finally did nothing to stop the collapse of the American economy. Good examples of one party rule.

Fantastic! Now we have a real clowin the US Senate.

It is appropriate that Franken is shown smiling, probably laughing, because all the is, is a comedian, and an unfunny one at that, ergo totally unqualified for the Senate. But the leftists are used to Bozos.

incredibly sad day for the US....

NOW THE DEMS CAN SCREW UP THIS COUNTRY ALL BY THEMSELVES. WE'LL ALL BE DEAD AND BURIED BEFORE ITS FIXED AGAIN.

Regardless of whether or not you like Franken, any proponent of democracy has to be disgusted by the seemingly endless litigation just to delay the guy from being able to represent his state.

The "borrow-spend-and-torture" Republicans caused the electoral landslide in this country. And as a former Republican voter, the more they whine like spoiled teenagers about "Socialism" and "B. HUSSEIN Obama" the more money I give to the Democrats. They've become so morally and intellectually bankrupt as a party that I doubt they'll ever get my vote back.

Now the Democrats finally have the votes. If only they have the will and courage to use them. It won't be easy to undo the damage done by the corrupt war party........maybe impossible. But at least there is a chance.

I read all of these comments, and must say...all of you are fools.
The United States of America is no longer a melting pot, it's just a bunch of groups in a big room, all trying to talk louder than each other to make their voice the one everyone marches to.
The end of our once great Nation is at hand. The Democrats will cheer it, because they like to destroy things that are not perfect, which is everything, and the Republicans will bemoan it, because they think everything is perfect, as long as it makes money.
I hate you all. You ruined my country, and have the gall to laugh about it.

5.Actually there is a silver lining to all of this.

"Now that this joker gives Obama his veto proof majority, the Republicans can pretty much sit back and watch this country implode while saying it is all Obama and the Democrats fault since they shoved their agenda through without any checks or balances...

It should be fun to watch that happen...

Posted by Thomas Dolby"

This is the only silver lining in all the corruption bestowed upon this country by the liberals and exactly my centiment

Score one for the wacko socialists! Actually, doesn't anyone out there in Republican land know the meaning of the word socialist?

It's about time the Democrats kept the Republicans from stealing another election. I guess the Bush brothers wern't interested in this one.

Congress has just had another "comic" added to their roster.

If there is a God let's hope that he can assist our children and grandchildren because at the rate the Obama machine is generating momentum they will soon be under the paralyzing "boot" of a socialistic state.

The good Rev. Wright has taught the Messiah well even if they no longer speak. I fully expect Bill Ayers to become the Secretary of Education in the very near future. If not the head he will be appointed 'Czar' to make certain the 'head' is headed in the 'Wright' direction.

A pox on the entire lot of them. They are rapidly destroying this nation as a Republic.

ridiculous....next it will be oprah.

Chuck. You are an idiot and fully deserve to be a full fledged member of the ultra-liberal-loony-crazy-dumbocratic-party.

Enjoy while it lasts. Soon the pendulum will swing back. And when it will it will be in a more massive and terrifying way to you and yours then any of you crazy socialists can envision in your most horrifying nightmares.

Wow, we are now officially a single party system. Watch taxes and spending go thru the roof. We will be cuba in a few years. Free everything for everyone, and none of it worth a damn.

Mr. Shirro look back to last year. It's your buddies Bush and Cheney who bankrupted this country and lined their pockets, along with Halliburton's pockets and the Saudi Prince's pockets with oil money. Do you know the true axis of evil -- Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld!

hey thom dolby, the country already imploded, under the village idiot from texas. haven'y you been paying attention?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH I LAUGH AT YOU POOR CONSERVATIVE Schmucks!!!!!

LOL - SEEING YOU ALL ANGRY IS THE BEST THING EVER.

If we can elect a B grade actor as the President of the USA and survive we certainly survive a comic in the Senate

If we can elect a B grade actor as the President of the USA and survive we certainly survive a comic in the Senate

15.It's about damn time.
Coleman needs to step aside NOW. He lost.
Of course, with Republicans, it's not about a fair fight and accepting when you lose, it's all about obstruction.
Franken deserves to be seated ASAP.

Posted by batoutofhell June 30, 09 02:39 PM

Well put Batoutofhell, cause Al Gore didn't do that right? oh wait he did..

Nate,

Driving by you in my 80,000 car as you beg for money makes it ok. hahahaha last laugh is on you hahahaha

I know that we here in MA should not talk with what we have for politicians representing us...but...it must be colder than I thought in Minnesota...they need to thaw their brains out.

LAURA,
You know Obama spent more in 6 months then Bush did in 8 years right???? How stupid can you be??? Yes, bush is more evil then Hitler and Stalin. Our country is done because people use emotion instead of facts. Im looking at you women out there.

This all just goes to show that you should let ALL the votes be counted. Florida did NOT do this in 2000, when the Supreme Court stopped them.
Still- Coleman's resistance was futile. And a waste of time and several million dollars. And denied Minn. one of its Senators for 7 months.
What a selfish jerk. Good riddance.

Coleman voted the party line with Bush 93% of the time and many photos circulated of him embracing Bush on stage during the election. All of the LEGAL votes were counted fair and square by an independant 3 judge panel and then an appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court yielded the same result. The election was not stolen. Coleman wanted to include ballots previously determined invalid votes. All the big money was spent during the Bush years including Bush's 750 Billion TARP with Paulson. It was Bush who paid for the war off budget under republican majority. Nobody is advocating Socialism, nobody is advocating unlimited abortions, nobody is coming for your guns, nobody is going to limit your ammo purchases, nobody is going to make you drive a Prius, nobody is taking any of your amendment rights away Bush already did that, and gays won't ruin the USA.

Confirms Obama to be a one tern president, Hello Jimmy Carter!

Is this the same guy who was the leader of Air America Radio went it went bankrupt???

Time to divide the union up into different countries.

Funny how Republicans only hate single-party rule when they're not that party. Five years ago all we heard was "the people have voted, and they want the republican agenda". Well, the voters have spoken again. The Republicans dug their own hole and they won't get out of it until they turn their backs on the backward social agenda of the far right.

Comment 96: Are you aware that your bitterness and misogyny take away credibility from anything you say? Next time you want to express yourself, try not to let yourself get all flustered and caught up in your emotions, as you did here. When you lash out at women ("Im looking at you women out there") it reveals that your opinions are based on emotion -- anger and bitterness and frustration. Your sweeping generalization about women and emotions has less impact than you intended, because you clearly said it in the heat of your own flustered emotion.

And to address your point, a lot has been spent in the last 6 months. But you are making a false comparison. Most of Bush's tenure was spent during the boom time, and so to compare the spending and economic policies of a largely boom-time president with one who is working during a recession is illogical. Further, many of the spending programs carried out by Obama this term were put in motion by Bush.

Yea, Republicans did a great job with the surplus they inherited from Clinton and the 8 years since they have proved their worth to us all.

"exactly my centiment"

"centiment" GB? When did they start letting illiterates post here? (Answer: when you idiot wingnuts showed up on the forum)

The "veto-proof majority" only works if every single Democrat Senator goes along with all these obviously awful bills. I have to believe that at least a few of them have enough common sense to question what is being done to us. Getting them all to vote in unison may be difficult.

The joke is on we Minnesotans (via Brighton) and just as with Obama--we will pay for the reckless abandon these idiot servants bring to Washington! Oh to be lost in the land of the Kool Aid drinkers!

"Is this the same guy who was the leader of Air America Radio went it went bankrupt??"

You would figure you would applaud entrepreneurship. I admire him for taking a chance and launching a business, as opposed to Bush, who drove several previously successful businesses into the ground.

Wow, how bad do you have to be to lose to Al Franken?

i can add nothing more creative to the flinging of vitriol on both sides of this issue. therefore, all i can add is a general affirmative comment - DIE REPUBLICAN SCUM!!!

Excellent politcal move. I am sure there is under table deal. Mr. Coleman will
became ambassdor to a Western Europe nation.

That smile says it all. He's a creep and a sore loser that had the liberal establishment in Minn. on his side. Norm Coleman was declared the winner on election night until this jerk cried to George Soros looking for money. This guy had ballots count in his favor that were found in a car after the election.
This is a sad day in America. Liberal political and judicial activism is to blame for this. The courts and all the Dem leaders in MInn. were on the Al Franken's side.

If the shoe were on the other foot: if Franken kept appealing and dragging this out for MONTHS, can you imagine the screaming and whining from the Limbaughs, Hannities and O'Reillys?
Republicans are obstructionists. Period. They've got nothing to add to anything, but 'NO'. Coleman is Exhibit A.
Senator Franken will prove to be a great lawmaker..the guy's very bright.

Another sad day for America.

Time to borrow our way into oblivion. GOOOOOOO dems!

From the state that brought you Jessie Ventura for Governor, now has comedian Al Franken as a Senator. Minnesota license plates shouldn't be "Land of Lakes" it should be "Where voting rivals that of Iran"

Ashamed to be living in MN at this point. I would come to Boston but you have Kennedy

In a perverse kind of way this is actually good for the Republicans in the long term. The Democrats own EVERTYTHING now and can't blame the Bush or the Republicans for anything more. The Democrats have already sewed the seeds of their demise by doubling the deficit overnight with the stimulus package and they are about to ram down our throats a healthcare package that can’t work and the cap and trade bill has the potential to kill the economy for generations.

The only question now is whether the Republicans will be able to repair the damage done after our little foray into socialism has been stopped.

If Al Franken can beat him, Coleman must be a real loser. Still, I wish Minnesota would stop electing semi-celebrities. That's Californias job.

Well we've got John Kerry...and that Kennedy guy. Now that's funny.

Norm Coleman reminded me of an old political cartoon with Reagan and Robert Bork, who didn't know when to quit his try for the Supreme Court. In the cartoon, Reagan is wearing a stethoscope and holding it to Bork's head, which is in a basket at the base of a guillotine and he is saying, "Robert, let me know when you want me to pull the plug." Coleman is now a joke.

Traffik1975 wrote:
I think all the Repubs have forgotten that the Bush Administration was the worst administration this country has ever seen. But he was a conservative Republican so we can't say anything bad about him, right Repubs?

To say that the Bush administration was the worst ever seen is a pretty stupid comment. Guess you are too young to remember Carter and 20% interest rates - for starters - and thats just Carter. I am also guessing you do not have the ability
to research and think for yourself - so you just go along with the flow. Thats swell. By the way, the latest Bush was really NOT very conservative.

How many senators can say the following:

1. He got into Harvard on his own merit, not on his family name (and graduated cum laude),

2. He has had a lucrative career based upon talent, not on his family name, theft or grossly unethical business practices, and

3. He has been married to the same woman for 34 years?

Al can.

The Democrats will be losing big-time in 2010...my Democrat pols already acknowledge as much. The reason? The Democrats are becoming a party of gays, radicals, ultra-liberals, bigots, sexists, anti-white, anti-Americans, illegal immigrants, nasty bums and clowns. The choice is clear. Who would want to associate with a bunch of losers like the Democrats have in their party. I'll take the GOP anyday.
THe GOP is the party of the true United States of America. Obama is now the worst president ever....and a disgrace.

The only way Franken won that race was by stealing it with fraudulent votes. The libs are rejoicing in this thread over a stolen election and it shows their character.

The Senate with a super majority will be run like a national version of the MA legislature. Corruption, hacks, raising taxes during a down economy, and America hating on all display.

Beautiful.

For those complaining about Al Franken's success in gaining the Minnesota Senate seat, we should not forget that the greatest pundit of the 20th century, Tom Lehrer, sang in 1965 about senator George Murphy, a "Senator who can really sing and dance" and the former actor, star of Bedtime for Bonzo, and governor of California who rose to become the leader of this great country, Ronald Reagan, who regularly confused his movie roles with real life.

It is official, the inmates now have control of the asylum...nancypelosimaxinewatersbarbaraboxerharryreidchuckrangelbarneyfranksjohnkerrygregorymeekschrisdodd

What a terrible week. First Farrah, then MJ, now Al Franken is in the Senate? Bad news all around. Although, happily, this tool will aid in sealing Obama's fate as a one term prez. Sweet!

Al Franken just stole an election. I cannot believe the American people are going to let his happen. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

It's so hypocritical with all of these Franken bashers saying he stole the election. Did you say the same thing in 2000 with Bush v Gore? I highly doubt it.