As Count Dracula and Oscar the Grouch wage their endless intergenerational war over who gets to be the other senator from Minnesota, current senator Amy Klobuchar has her hands full. You see, the good citizens of Minnesota have just one person to harass about their unemployment benefits or their third nipples or establishing a new holiday to celebrate cats.
Normally, two senators can field constituent service needs while also meeting with advocacy groups and even occasionally reading bills and voting on them. But a single Minnesota senator is basically rendered helpless by all the crap she has to deal with.
So nice going, lizard people! Not only have you turned the exciting nail-biter of a race between Franken and Coleman into the most dull, agonizing shitfest since the last ten seasons of ER, you have also made Amy Klobuchar sad.
Sole Minnesota Senator Has Problems Built for 2 [New York Times]
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I’ll bet Bachmann would be happy to help scare off bothersome constituents. Outsource to the House!
She should give the two runnees some of her paperwork to do, and whoever does it less bad will get the job. Oh and we’ll have TV cameras and we can vote them off…like a REAL democracy!
Is one senator twice as inefficient or half as inefficient as two?
Just wait till Ricky finds out about this.
That was the funniest episode of Lucy ever, and perfect for this subject.
“meetings with advocacy groups — like those trying to cure diseases, help injured soldiers, or support ethnic groups in Minnesota — are up 30 percent.”
I thought Lutherans and Lizard People were the only ethnic groups in Minnesota.
When SKS gets a bob and rimless, she will be look like Klobbie’s little sis.
[re=284851]Big Liver[/re]: Because Lucy put those candies in her top, the chocolate factory had to shut down because of salmonella.
…wait a minute, senators actually work?! I thought they just sat eating Cheetos, masturbating to reruns of Seinfeld!!!
Hell hath no fury as a Progressive censored!
John Avaro$i$ over at AmeriKablog will censor your posts if you call them out for whining about not getting their share of Progressive fund raising money. You can swear if you want. You can bash gays if you want. Don’t dare question their patriotism for wanting their share of the money. Show me the money, that’s what it’s all about, isn’t it?
Peace?
[re=284857]Tommy Says Soooo, Jugdish![/re]: I am happy to be having the call center job in Mumbai. also, nom nom nom.
[re=284861]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: Call me Senator BigDupa!
Norm Coleman, you bastard! The National Organization for Hot Dish needs to have its voice heard and you are stifling it.
Wait… so Lizard People LOST?!?!
ALL Minnesotans are lonely. Sheesh.
[re=284861]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: That’s only David Vitter.
Why doesn’t the governor appoint Garrison Keillor as a temporary replacement until the whole thing is settled?
Sen. Klobuchar would be able to keep up if she drank all her Vitameatavegamin.
[re=284862]PJ70[/re]: He’ll also erase your comment if you point out that, for a demographic that’s supposed to be good at aesthetics, his t-shirts are crap. Or he did five years ago, back when I read the comments there. And maybe it wasn’t him but one of the subs so the Great Man wouldn’t be inconvenienced by criticism. Still, he’s got quite the sense of entitlement for a recent convert, and I wonder how that YouTube boycott he called a couple years ago is doing…
[re=284851]Big Liver[/re]: What about VitaMeataVegimin?
Wait! What??
Establishing a new holiday to celebrate cats?
What and when is this magical, mystical holy day of days? Can we get this going in California, too?
[re=284901]ScribblinPossum[/re]: Someone’s pretty het up about Puma Day.
Wa Waaa…
[re=284888]Come here a minute[/re]: Win. +2 for the spelling.
Coleman is crossing the line into disrepute and political oblivion. Even if he wins by taking the election into the Federal Courts (where they might not even hear the case) he has lost all hope of leading by the integrity of example. Time’s up Norm.
What, no alt-text for the image?
Was Ho Chi Minh a Senator from Minnesota?
[re=284885]Cape Clod[/re]: He’s the emissary for life of the northern peoples, DUH
[re=284907]user-of-owls[/re]: Oh… it’s a Puma thing? Well, f*ck that then!
Ok then. Yuk it up Wonkers. Just wait until our local government collapses from a lack of a senator and our hot dish and wood chipper export system goes to hell. What’ll ya do then? Huh?
[re=284862]PJ70[/re]: See, wonkette doesn’t censor. We just tell you what an unsnarky, off-topic asshat you are. Get funny or GTFO.
[re=284901]ScribblinPossum[/re]: Besides, as far as my cats are concerned, Cat Celebration Day is….well, every fucking day.
But no one celebrates PUMAs. Their tears are too sweet.
A friend of mine got a job in high school as a student intern for a senator’s home office. They had him do all the really shitty stuff, like carry water for the senator when he went out to do photo ops and answer the phones. He said that the office was constantly inundated with calls from crackheads demanding to speak to the senator, who they always referred to by his first name. It went like this:
“Hello?”
“I wanna talk to John!”
“May I ask who is calling?”
“Gawddammit, boy, I wanna talk to John!”
So he gave them the DC office number. He said he was never as proud of his time in the home office as when he got a memo instructing the home office to stop giving crackheads the DC number.
I’m sure she’s bringing Al his homework assignments, so that he doesn’t fall too far behind in his classes through his chicken pox vacation (that’s why he’s not in the senate, right?).
[re=284862]PJ70[/re]: You can type his real name. $ for “S” isn’t really necessary, we’re pretty much uncensored. Shit. Fuck. Ass. Ropey fountains of jism. See, nobody cares.
[re=284861]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: That’s why Fred Thompson quit being a Senator, it was too much work, not enough Cheeto-Cheez-stained masturbation. Also, he though Law and Order reruns were all he needed to cinch the the Presidency.
Best illustration evah!
Forget the cats, let’s make “Weasle Stomping Day” a National Holiday:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEOAh9RDIfI
[re=285049]Gallowglass[/re]: Well, that depends on which f*ckwad is looking over your shoulder at work.
[re=284862]PJ70[/re]: [re=284890]qaf[/re]: Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
I’ve met Senator Klobuchar at private functions, and she’s sharp as a tack – and modest too – she blushed when I suggested that she might be Prez or VP in 10-15 years.
[re=284854]shanemacgowan[/re]: Everyone in Minne-so-ta is a ‘Lutern’, whether they want to be or not… eating Lutefisk (“another serving, Senator? How about the kids?”) will do that to ya, doncha know?
[re=285327]Bearbloke[/re]: If she’s sharp, why is she wasting public money on a clown (literally) to promulgate abstinence to teens?
The best part of the article was the mention of teh spam puffs. That makes me want to be BFF’s with Klobes.
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