Posted by
Bryn T. Jones on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10:37:04 PM
According to Harry Reid, it is clear Al Franken won the election. That said, we really need to know how Mr. Reid defines 'won.' Since Mr. Franken lost by more than 700 votes on election night and quickly hustled up duplicate votes and discarded votes in order to gin up a 200 vote lead, I suppose that might show a shrewd quality that fits with the current leadership. This same quality is what Harry Reid is showing by flagrantly wanting to seat Mr. Franken during a contested election. What they're ultimately saying is that winning, like so many things for liberals, is relative. Since Norm Coleman beat Franken by a slim percentage, he clearly didn't win and, by golly, those votes better be re-counted until we get the right result.
For his part, Franken has taken President Obama's call to get to work personally. After all, with the President calling for a not-so-funny commedian to come to the Capital, who could argue? He may bring just the right kind of funny business this country is needing to get us out of our economic doldrums. This follows the same logic that brings us the idea that our lack of assets and debt problems will only be solved with ever more defecit spending.
While times look tough, it appears that the voters of Minnesota have opened the door for a drawn out recession and possibly a depression. Our country has put an inexperienced senator steeped in Marxist ideology and progressive economic idealism. My state might end up with an inexperienced nut whose main motivation to run was George W. Bush hatred.
The silver lining is that together these children might make such a mess that we'll demand and get some real adults in to do the hard work of limiting government and turning our economy back to those who make it run, the producers and consumers.