Caligula’s Donkey Goes to Congress
It’s a new low for the state of Minne-soh-DUH, which now has the dubious honor of eclipsing New Jersey and Florida as having the largest population of mentally retarded voters. Coincidentally, they are almost all Democrats and all voted for this jackass, who is now, officially, a member of the United States Senate.
And why not? It worked for Caligula’s horse.
The Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered that Democrat Al Franken be certified as the winner of the state’s long-running Senate race.
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.
How convenient. Note that, initially, Coleman was the winner. In the wake of a recount demanded by Franken and throughout the recounts that followed, Coleman’s lead mysteriously dwindled and Franken’s increased - in much the same fashion of every Democrat in any horse race election where there is a photo finish. Somewhere in the Glorious Gateway to Canada a gaggle of ACORN operatives is breaking out the Cheetos and Ballantine Ale.
Coleman hasn’t ruled out seeking federal court intervention.
I certainly hope not. In light of the fact that the addition of this addle-pated clown to the Democrat ranks would give them a filibuster-proof majority, Coleman should be willing to take one for the republic and sell his house, if necessary, to take this case all the way to the Supreme Court. But I suspect he’ll back down and skulk away.
Coleman’s appeal hinged largely on whether thousands of absentee votes had been unfairly rejected by local election officials around the state.
The unanimous court wrote that “because the legislature established absentee voting as an optional method of voting, voters choosing to use that method are required to comply with the statutory provisions.”
They went on to say that “because strict compliance with the statutory requirements for absentee voting is, and always has been required, there is no basis on which voters could have reasonably believed that anything less than strict compliance would suffice.”
I’m not familiar with the particulars of the case or the reasons the absentee ballots were rejected by local election officials. At this point I suppose it doesn’t matter: had Coleman’s victory been more decisive, none of this would ever have happened and while I certainly blame the Minnesota Moron demographic for casting their ballots in favor of Franken, I likewise blame the Minnesota GOP for fielding so weak and wishy-washy a candidate. For all practical purposes, Coleman is the collateral damage resulting from the McCain implosion in November.
Perhaps after he is seated in that august body of legislative deliberation, freshman Senator Al “Stuart Smalley” Frankin will regale us with some of his brainier quips such as “Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers” and also “I’m interested in politics for all the wrong reasons – I’m interested in the entertainment value of it.”
He’s all yours, Minne-soh-DUH. You own this horse’s ass for six years.
Aaaggh! My eyes! Please make it go away!
I concur! You’ve a flair for the terrifying, Boss. Raw Nightmare Fuel right there.
*retches*
So much for the “let’s be Moderates” crowd. Conservatism wins every time. Minnesotans, you bear responsibility for this shame. You should have buried this guy in the election. Now he gets to go to Washington with the rest of the clowns.
Suck it up, and be be the nation’s political laughing stock for six (6) full years!
There’s nothing better for political laughing material, than having the most serious, unfunny senior Senator (Harry Reid) and the most unfunny, unserious junior Senator (Al Franken), laughing at everything unfunny and serious that comes out of the incompetent, unfunny and serious senior Senator’s mouth!!
Beautiful actually!
Allah is ripping you off manly.
Just when you thought the collective IQ of the Senate couldn’t drop any lower…
They have to because they have nowhere else to go.
Col. Rash has become the blogger’s muse for creativity.
I’ve noticed it in ever so many small ways, ever since this blog was started, among any number of other blogs.
This one just cinches that phenomenon. You know good and well that [redacted eeyore] wanted to use it in the headlines, since it fitted the circumstance so well.
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And actually, the analogy could be worse…. it could be *Nero : (Caligula’s nephew), who “fiddled while Rome burned” down.
*Julia Agrippina was a great granddaughter of Emperor Augustus, great niece and adoptive granddaughter of Emperor Tiberius, sister to Emperor Caligula, niece and wife of Emperor Claudius and mother of Emperor Nero.
*sighs*
No wonder these emperors were nuts, they married their relatives!!
My question is: How did Al Franken become nuts?!
I, for one, am all for stopping this madness at Al Franken’s spermatozoa.
OK … this has got to stop! I know that everyone in this room is voicing their opinion to their Representatives. The time has come to urge or maybe even by coercion … get others involved in a cohesive organized group to stand up to these lunatics.
Off subject - Lt. General (retired) Jerry Boykin spoke at our Church this past Sunday as we celebrated our Patriotic Sunday in honor of the 4th of July. If you don’t know who he is … google him. All I can say is WOW! What a powerful message from a powerful Patriotic man. Our Pastor is a former Army Ranger Captain and a friend of the General, they served in Viet Nam together and now Pastor Stu ministers to the troops as time allows.
God Bless America.
And my new theme song (besides the Battle Hymn of the Republic) is by Tom Petty - “I won”t back down” I heard it just the other night and detemined to take my stand!
Manly … I hope your sight gets more traffic. I have told many of my family & friends to come to Manly’s Republic … if you want to be informed.
Keep fighting the good fight my friend. I appreciate you!
Minnesota should be soooooooooo proud…
Will he be taking his mirror and lime green sweater with him to D.C.
Mr. Smith, he’s NOT!!!
Reid has no shame…
Going forward, Franken’s election should be the end of ANY state secretary of state with ACORN ties being elected…
This shows Pawlenty to the RINO that he is…
crikey…
This shows Pawlenty to BE the RINO that he is
It’s happening my friends, it’s happening…..
Right on cue, as I predicted.
This current crop of democrats with the Idiot-in-Chief, is going to ruin…completely ruin, any and all respect that people in the middle political spectrum have for them.
To wit (comments from redacted - I know, I know, shoot me!):
To which another responded:
To which (Thunderstorm129) responds:
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The bottom line is the people in the middle that I know, for example, like this one (our own new commenter) do and will see the light:
Buck up people, there IS real justifiable hope!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KusMvq8oZ74&feature=related
Here you go … I won’t back down!
Franken isn’t Caligula’s donkey, he’s a stump Jenny…
Good song to play at Tea Parties, ORrighty…Or any other gathering
Gohawgs on July 1, 2009 at 1:23 am
Take heart my patriot friends! No the blame can be placed wholly, completely, and totally on the DEMONcrats! God have mercy on the USA.
Manly,
Did Reynolds borrow this line of thought from you or did he borrow it from AP who borrowed it from you?
I guess we can follow the timeline, Gohawgs.
Manly came with his post first. Allah followed suit with his and Glenn Reynolds brought up the rear…
Whatever, and in any case, they’re all donkey’s asses anyway.
They can’t come up with original stuff themselves. There is no original writer like Col. Rash
Like
donkeysdemocrats, they all have to copy and then trash and belittle, or at the very least ignore the truly original writer.Awesome comment from HA:
*eats*