Comments on: Minnesota Court Rules for Franken

[daffy64]

Didn't you hear? The liberals might be taking over in Iran as well!

[BeckieBest]

Goodbye GOP! Don't come back until you've learned from your mistakes. The American people don't want any more of your incompetence and corruption. Hollow slogans won't be enough any more.

[mattlash3]

OH MY God!!!! Stand up and be proud Minn. you now have a idiot for a senator. I guess he is no worse than the rest of the Democrats like Dodd, pelosi, Frank, Reid,and Boxer, he'll fit right in with that bunch of idiots. Just think, everyone though electing Jesse Venture to the Governor's office was bad, this takes the cake. The Democratic regime has total power now, God help America!!!!!

[mrzerato]

YOu are wrong. The republicans have the idiots, Inhofe, Shelby, Bunting, michele Bachman, Colburn, Cornyn, Perry, Sanford, Palin, Ensign etc etc I would take those you named rather than the republicans I mentioned. Would the last republican leaving Washington, turn off the limpballs mike

[cs4466]

God did help American. He threw the republicans out of power. NEXT!

[Heartlight]

Well, Coleman may not have won the election, but he sure wins the prize as a sore loser!

[bajajohn1]

Republican's God is money. So they sell their soul to highest bidder. Then they get elected and do nothing for America's middle-class or the poor. They will repeatedly say they are for the working man, but a lie never had better friends than a Republican.

[CBSName]

Actually, this news isn't that big of a deal except to the people of Minnesota. The Senate has members who are "in the middle" and don't always vote with the majority of their party. So there's no reason to assume that there's automatically 60 votes for anything the Democrats propose. But it does mean that the Republicans need to offer persuasive arguments to get at least one Democrat or Independent Senator to support a filibuster. So just saying 'no' won't work, they'll have to come up with alternatives, or better still, negotiate more effectively.

[gravyboat4000]

It is a big deal.

Who is more likely to side with the President, Colman, or Franken?

Sure, they won't get 60 on ALL votes, but it will be fun to watch.

[abbe91]

To get to the number 60, you have to count Lieberman.

[bajajohn1]

No!

[josephp5]

@pmsmbc2:

By "Smiley" I assume you mean the man who graduated *** laude from Harvard University with a degree in political science, and the author of five bestselling books, three of which went to number one.

[skyk-2009]

How's that exactly Demscry? Now I said people who do NOT like Representative Government and constantly attack other American's are ANTI AMERICAN. EXACTLY what about that do you NOT agree with? If necessary we can get some school kids to TELL you what the words mean!!

[ibsteve2u]

Now the unpleasant thing is that the Republicans will undoubtedly change tactics.

America got lucky, once, when Michael Steele exposed the Republicans' "big tent" to actually be a small "hat", instead.

But if I know anything about the righties who control the GOP, they will adopt that lie of "compassionate conservatism" again - which carried them through their subsequent lies about the blessings that would shower down upon the American people from "trickle-down" economics, inequitable "free trade", and "Wall Street and banking must be deregulated to compete!".

And the Republicans have the money to pay the best psychiatrists and advertising agencies to craft the brightest fairy tales that America has yet been subjected to...

I fear that America will forget that they are now suffering from 30 years of Republican lies, and will again fall for the charade of "family values", "patriotism", and "morality" the Republicans will plaster everywhere you look.

I hope that we have the sense to remember that those "thousand points of light" were coming from the matches the Republicans were using to ignite the flames that would soon consume our jobs, our home equity, our medical plans, our pensions, the college funds we had set aside for our children, and indeed the very future of our children.