Wonkette
Well, the Minnesota state canvassing board is set to certify Al Franken the winner of the Senate race against Norm Coleman. But maybe because it is Minnesota and the cold slows everything down (?), it will take a week for those certified results to show up … on a certificate. That gives Coleman the opportunity to file many lawsuits challenging the results, which were, in truth, probably bullshit anyway.
Coleman v. Franken brings to light a hard truth that all of America learned way back in 2000: when a race is this close, neither candidate deserves to win.
Instead of having a brand-new or gently used senator today, the state of Minnesota has essentially TWO losers bickering over a bunch of absentee ballots that never should have mattered in the first place. That said, our old boyfriend Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com makes a fairly persuasive argument that absentee ballots probably favored Franken anyway, and even removing some allegedly double-counted ballots from Franken’s tally wouldn’t hurt the final numbers that much.
The moral of the story is this: when you have two relatively undesirable candidates running for public office, do not write in “Lizard People” instead, because your vote might actually end up mattering.
Panel to declare Franken winner of Senate race [CNN]
Votes and the voting voters who cast them.
When the Lizard People lose, the terrorists win.
Lizard People/Ventura 2012!
You’re good enough, you’re smart enough, and gosh darn it, people voted for you.
Good because I just paid the $50 charge on my credit card for the recount- if he didn’t win, I was going to ask for it back.
So Wonkette reveals its bias toward the unfair two-party (non-lizard) system. Well, the people want a real choice, Sara, and we choose Lizard People.
To : SKS
Re: The return Al Frankin diaper picture
Message: You make my eyes burn and the vomit come out my nose. I hate you.
(I love your posts BTW)
Oh yay. First of all we in Minnesota have gone long enough (six years!) without having a hilarious professiona; wrestler/late night comedian in a public office. Second, we’ve had Norm Coleman those six years. And third, I got to tell people my senator is Al Franken. Maybe he will call himself “the body” too. And like W he better spend that political capital he has now won since the margin could have been 225 mental patients or ACORN people or something. Sweet.
Hey, don’t blame me. I voted for Kodos.
I believe that picture cries out for the much ballyhooed “assfucking” tag.
The moral of the story is this: when you have two relatively undesirable candidates running for public office, do not write in “Lizard People” instead, because your vote might actually end up mattering.
Wasn’t this pretty much the key to Governor Jesse Ventura’s win?
I’d agree with you re: Franken if this country had a good chance of getting out of this Bush ditch. But the ride down is more fun than the ride up, so let’s put the smuggish comic on the 100 Afterthoughts and enjoy!
Oh this picture. If you think David Vitter won’t reach
aroundacross the aisle to work with Al Franken you are sorely mistaken.WIDTAP: Second. Isn’t there some badly photoshopped picture of Coleman stealing candy from children that you could use?
Cue video of Bill O’Reilly’s head exploding.
Are those Depends or just size 12 huggies?
If I could be serious, just for a moment, it has been goddamn cold up here in this poxridden shithole for what seems like forever, and I am getting homicidal, stabby stab stab.
Two undesirable candidates? He who is without diaper rash cast the first stone.
On the plus side, this will cause Bill O’Reilly to shit solid bile bricks.
If I was Al, I would avoid flying in commuter aircraft until say…May or so.
Just sayin’.
Since the GOP admitted they photo-shopped this picture, it’s pretty shameful to just keep reprinting it without at least a disclaimer.
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/26/franken-ohio-photo/
Gorillionaire: So if Franken wins will Bill pull another San Francisco and condone a terrorist attack on the state? I presume so.
Maybe Al can use subpoena power and get O’Reilly to testify on what vibrators have the best quality, and which are inferior or as Bill calls them “far-left dildos.”
Go Al! Happy New Year you sick, sick Wonketeer fucks. I’m hoping 2009 will finally be the year I stick my finger up my mother’s rectum.
Beth: Huh, I just figured it was some thing from SNL. Just don’t take away my Romney fudge glove picture.
If we don’t allow Norm Coleman to sue endlessly over an insignificant number of votes that if thrown out will still result in a Franken victory, are we really still a Democracy? No, so enjoy Amy Klobuchar Minnesotans, she’s the only Senator you are allowed to have for the next couple of years.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
Am I alone in that I am encouraged by the developments in Minnesota? Alot of people cast their votes for an important office. Machines counted those votes. Those machines are fast, but occasionally prone to error. When the machine count proved to be quite close, people recounted the votes by hand. Those people who conducted the recound did so in a serious, sober and transparent manner. When I learned Civics in fourth grade, this is the way I was told it was supposed to work. It is rather nice to see it work that way in practice, especially after that little episode in 2000.
Beth: it’s pretty shameful
Isn’t “shameful” the whole point of Wonkette?
irativ: True, you Minnesotans have a long history of, as they say, ‘colorful’ political characters. I blame the movie, Fargo.
Beth: Wow, interesting. I thought it was SNL too.
Beth: Excellent suggestion: Disclaimer: Only Senator Vitter poses for pictures in diapers, and getting a digitized copy is a bitch.
Palin-Plumber2012: Or investigate him as a terrorist for his self-professed support of falafel.
If we’re going to blame anybody, I blame the undesirable third party candidate. This would most likely have been decided on election night without his interference.
Serolf Divad: We’ll do it live! We’ll do it live!
shanemacgowan: Why do you hate America so? You need to start listening to Sean Hannity, then you could be a Real American (C)(TM). In that case, you would know that the only way that Franken could win is if he runs to the courts and have them overturn the actual count.
Oops…,. Well, I’m sure Sean will have a new theory by tonight.
Beth: Damn, it is a fake. And to think the only reason I supported Franken was that I thought that we had finally found a politician that put his diaper wearing/bunny fucking at the front of his campaign.
Now where can I go to find a Senator that represents America at its finest.
Serolf Divad: It’s worth it just for that alone.
No idea what kind of senator weird Al will make. But that fact that he will now have actual authority while Bill-o bloviates, amuses me to no end.
Beth: I thought it was an SNL/ Air America photo too.
Wait, no! The lesson is DO write in Lizard People. Always. Every ballot from now on. Some day they might actually become a viable third party.
Coleman should give it up. Greatest gift the Republicans could get for the New Year would be Al Franken in the Senate. Great guy to hang with, but check out his webpage if you wonder how Fox will have fun covering him in the Senate. Those flecks of drool you see on Hannity’s chin are caused by the thoughts of six years of berating Franken. If you see the same on Limbaugh though it is probably just a drug side effect.
Iggy Plop: can the Ketchup Board endorse a candidate?
@SKS: alt-text win!
Naked Bunny with a Whip: No, you mean “shameless”.
Sara, why the hate for Lizard People?
Court blows Franken, paving a way for Coleman to blow himself
Minn. supreme court rejected Coleman’s request, hahaha. Now Rush Limpballs can have a heart attack live on the AM radio.
TGY: Everybody likes to say, “All these politicians are a bunch of clowns.” The great thing is in MN, it’s funny ’cause it’s true! Ha ha! Jesse & Al!
Why are we suddenly hating a liberal Democrat and lumping him with Norm Coleperson, who believed “our American way of life is at risk” if we didn’t give Shrubbie Bush a line-item veto? Franken can be quite funny — an address he gave to U. of Missouri journalism students had me rolling — and he has been fairly successful in a very tough business. None of the Above can’t run in the US, so one candidate has to be Desirable and one Undesirable — Franken will support Obama, while Coleperson is a typical GOP obstructionist, anti-abortion, “no new taxes when Democrats are in power” gun nut right out of the Bush mold. I’m delighted that Franken won.
ok then what IS that picture, who posed for it and why?
enquiring minds want to know.
Senator Franken. Another Democrat in the United States Senate, replacing a Republican. Win-win. Even if he shows up hugging his bunny and wearing diapers, Senator Franken would still be better than Yeehaw Saxby Chambliss of Jawja.
lawrenceofthedesert: Answer: we hate everybody.
ladymacbeth:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v386/DickSteele/David-Vitter-Diaper-Boy-cop.jpg
Vitter?
CONGRATS SENATOR FRANKEN! YOU’VE DONE GOOD! THE US SENATE NEEDS MEN LIKE YOU! COLEMAN IS A SORE LOSER! LOOK AT HIM WHINING LIKE A LITTLE GIIIIRRRRRRL! FRANKEN FOR PRESIDENT!!!
Diapers and the diapered diaper men who wear them?
Al Franken rocks, go read his books.