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Posted on 12/04/2008 8:53:31 AM PST by Slings and Arrows
Earlier I noted that it's possible for the Dems to "steal" the MN senate seat, because the senate gets to decide who "wins". On the other side of the argument, however, is Michael Barone who makes a particularly noteworthy point: A consequence of Chambliss winning is that Al Franken’s importance as a possible addition to the Democratic Senate bloc diminishes...
This is especially true because getting Franken in the Senate would entail Obama (and the Dems) expending political capital that could be better used on other things. What is more, getting Franken in the Senate might not be worth the predictable backlash that would ensue if it were perceived to have been done in a heavy-handed manner.
Here's a excerpt of the Barone piece:
Chambliss's victory over Jim Martin means that the Democrats will not get 60 seats in the Senate, even if Al Franken somehow manages to overcome Norm Coleman's circa 300-vote lead in the Minnesota recount. Franken's only apparent recourse is to the courts or to the full Senate; I doubt he'll get anywhere in the courts, and I doubt that Barack Obama will want the Democrats to take on a bruising partisan fight to get a 59th seat in the Senate (though labor leaders, eager to pass the card check bill and knowing that Arlen Specter voted to cut off the filibuster against it in the outgoing Congress, may press for that).In short, Chambiss's victory might have also saved Norm Coleman...
FrankenBeans is cooked.............
This was my take also. IMHO, if Chambliss had lost, it would have been total war to get Franken in. To have the president and a filibuster proof congress- my word, we would have been dragged into a European socialism and there is not much we could have done about it. Not that they can’t do major damage now.
The one point I will make is this. Now that we have two (TWO!) senators keeping us from getting run over by the bulldozer, watch the dems to spin everything that goes wrong as STILL the GOP’s fault. And for the MSM to gleefully back them up, too.
I bet in four years you will still be seeing videos like “Why Barack Obama won”, where the people are still saying that the pubs control the congress.
calculating cutthroats
Sorry but as long as you have the likes of Specter and Voinovich etc. this magic 60 number is the most irrelevant topic on these pages. You can bet your boots that there is one or more RINO’s out there just waiting to openly side with the Messiah.
Ann Coulter predicts Franken will win the same way the Dem governor of Washington won: they both have the same “adviser,” a guy named Berendt who is an accomplished vote thief.
You have to figure a few dems, also don’t want that nut in the senate.
Word is.....there are more than just a few dems that won’t support Franken....
Uhhhh...what backlash from whom? The compliant, roll-over and play dead Republicans? The sheeple? The ninnies in MN who elected Jesse Ventura as their Governor? ROFLOL at the thought of a "backlash."
Perhaps,
But the election was almost a month ago. I should think it is unlikely that new uncounted ballots would appear now.
My thoughts too. The mysterious 300 votes against Frankin that recently appeared and that are freaking Frankin out, are probably because of the Chamblis win and the Democrat fraud wing saying, “Frankin, you just aren’t worth it now.”
It does give them an excuse for Obama being a miserable failure. Not, a good one, mind you, but they will make the most of it.
“Sorry but as long as you have the likes of Specter and Voinovich etc. this magic 60 number is the most irrelevant topic on these pages. You can bet your boots that there is one or more RINO’s out there just waiting to openly side with the Messiah”.
...also, you would be hard pressed to find ONE DINO that would side with pubs. On ANYTHING!
In Washington they kept appearing; in one instance 10,000 absentee ballots appeared out of nowhere - 2,000 more than had been sent out to that precinct but the “Republican” SecState accepted them. I wonder where she vacations now?
Many of problems we face at all levels of government is due to the fact that many elected “Republicans” are just trying to get along, to go along, to play nice.
Just a few days ago, Senator Collins from Maine, was shocked about how mean the Democrats were to her during the election.
To think some of her colleagues from the other side of the isle came to Maine and said bad things about her. A RINO that sees the light-naw!
Slow learners
Stein
Ben Stein
Al Frankenstein
And Collins....and Snowe.
And McCain and Graham
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