Al Franken has been declared the winner in the Minnesota Senate race. After 34 weeks of battling, recounts and court battles, Norm Coleman finally conceeded the race to Franken in a gracious speech earlier this afternoon. Although I disagree with Coleman dragging his feet on this, I thought his speech showed a lot of class. Franken won by 312 votes out of over 2 million cast.
This means the Democrats now have a supermajority in the Senate, or, 60 votes, enough to override a fillibuster. Obviously, this concerns some, others are overjoyed with the news. My take….neither should get too excited, this is a wait and see scenario. For starters, it’s not like the Dems have shown all that much backbone when it comes to their agenda in the first place. I believe many of them are as bought and paid for by special interest as the Republicans were a few years ago.
I do have a high opinion of Al Franken himself. I don’t believe him to be the type to fall into corruption. He is intelligent, well researched, and will represent Minnesota very well. Having read a number of his books (highly reccommended!!), I was very impressed with how well he researched his subject matter.
To Republicans/Conservatives-don’t freak out too much over there. As I said, many of the Democrats have proven to be bought and paid for, or just plain spineless. No need to worry about this turning into the old Soviet Union anytime soon. Besides, the midterms are coming up, and my bet is on the GOP picking up a couple of Senate seats in 2010. They wont get a majority, but they’ll break the supermajority…I think.
To Democrats/progressives-Same as above. You probably don’t like the idea of the GOP picking up a couple of seats, but I honestly think it would be good to weed out a few of those Dems who have sold out or simply refuse to grow some grapefruits.
To extreme leftists/righties-nobody likes you guys anyway.
So again, congrats to Al Franken, and if you get a chance, read the following books to start. “Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them”, and “The Truth, With Jokes” by Franken. Very entertaining and very informative. Good night for now all.
