huffingtonpost.com - 6/30/2009
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Moments after former Sen. Norm Coleman conceded the drawn-out Minnesota Senate election to Al Franken, Gov. Tim Pawlenty said that that he would sign the election certificate. In a matter of minutes, the eight-month-long recount process had come to a close. All was well within the Democratic ...
huffingtonpost.com - 6/30/2009
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ST. PAUL, Minn. 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 ...
Minnesota Decision: Supreme Court Rules For Franken, ...
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Democrats Caution: Franken Won't Drastically Change Political Realities
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Democrats Caution: Franken Won't Drastically Change Political Realities http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ 2009/ 06/ 30/ democrats... Moments after former Sen. Norm Coleman conceded the drawn-out Minnesota Senate election to Al Franken, Gov. Tim Pawlenty said that that he would sign the election certificate. In a matter of minutes, the seven-month-long recount process had come to a close. All was well within the Democratic Party, which had finally received that elusive 60th caucus member. The Republican filibuster would be no longer be a threat. Or maybe not. Franken is expected to ...
Hooray, Al Franken Means All Of Our Problems Will Go Away! [Senate]
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The Democrats have 60 votes in the Senate! Hooray! Now we get health care and climate control and bullet trains and all the wars will end! Except that this doesn't really change anything! Because the leader of the Democrats is still Mr. Harry Reid, a useless, spineless Democrat who does not actually care about passing liberal legislation, at all. And the most powerful Democrats in the Senate are, of course, the "centrists" who refuse to support any bill until whatever the Republicans want done to it is done to it (that is centrism!). And two ...
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