You wouldn’t think so, considering the politics back home in North Dakota (RED), but Byron Dorgan’s a pretty good senator! All you have to do to be considered a “pretty good senator” nowadays is have like three or four rad YouTubes, and he does, so huzzah. Here’s a famous one from the late ’90s when he was a lead voice against the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which passed anyway and essentially allowed opaque hedge funds to set up shop in-house at Citibank, Bank of America, and other major commercial banks, all of which proceeded to UM YEAH DEFAULT.
You know how hard it is to elect a non-incumbent Democrat in North Dakota, especially in a miserable midterm anti-Democrat atmosphere? Just put your pants back on, Dorgan, and run for reelection after all, JESUS.
Do you even see what kinds of hilarious candidates your party leaders are considering now, in this desperate situation? Seriously. This is happening right now. This could be the best solution Democrats have in North Dakota, with you out of the race:
A top ND Dem has asked MSNBC host Ed Schultz to return to his native state and run for Senate, Schultz said today.
In an interview on MSNBC, where he hosts a nightly program, Schultz said he got a call from state Rep. Merle Boucher (D), the House Min. Leader, asking him to consider a bid. Schultz said he had worked hard to get where he was in his career, but he refused to rule out a bid.
“I’m flattered. I’m honored. I can’t say that I’m even considering it right now,” Schultz said. “I’m in a different place right now. So we’re a long way from any kind of consideration.”
Ed Schultz.
Why does Byron Dorgan hate America?
Ed Schultz Asked To Run For Senate [Hotline]
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Mmm…cow pies.
Rahm did it.
I hope Norm Coleman moves to ND to run against Schultz.
Ed Schultz as Senator Foghorn McShoutypantz. God, I hope so.
“nowadays is have like three or four rad YouTubes, and he does, ”
Does he have any X-Tubes? You-Porn? There’s new requirements now. YouTubes aren’t good enough.
So the US Senate will become “The Ed Show,” assuming of course that Schultz is tough enough to elbow his way in front of Schumer, Hegel, Kerry and all the other senatorial camera whores.
Hey, how about Phil Jackson? Or Angie Dickinson? Louise Erdrich, goddammit! Just because Lawrence Welk and Roger Maris are not available doesn’t mean you have to ask some lame newsperson to run.
North Dakota is actually a blue state now.
This may be a little off topic, but I think that bird in the Proud Gay Conservative ad may be a chicken hawk. How I miss Campbell Brown.
We should all hum that old Louis Jordan song, “North Dakota”.
The meat eating, gun toting lefty just might have a chance in ND. What’s his position on ice fishing?
Population of North Dakota-641,481
Population of Los Angeles County California-9,862,049
There are more people waiting in line at Taco Bell in LA county than live in the state of North Dakota…and yet…we live in a Democracy so ND gets 2 Senators because…well, just because…
Byron Dorgan made the mistake of being right. Nobody likes the guy who wants to turn down the stereo before the cops show up, even less after the cops show up, arrest half party goers, all the prostitutes and call the SPCA to pick up the donkey and the trained snake. Seriously, the guy is a buzz kill, we’re better off without him.
Ed Schultz though…in the Senate…that’s magic baby.
Franken/Schultz 2016!
Let’s watch the ditto heads explode!
Now that we have heard of Byron Dorgon, we heart Byron Dorgon.
Byron is too mad and sad cuz his Senate nickname is “Cassandra”.
Dorgan canceled the Clown Parties. What a soulless prick. Good riddance.
[re=489900]4tehlulz[/re]: It looks a little like that, doesn’t it, with both Dorgan and Dodd announcing their retirements today?
Don’t cross Rahm.
And give Bill Shatner his 1966 toupee back!
From the Ed Schultz Wikipedia page:
“He played professional football in the CFL for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.”
Most qualified senate candidate ever, ladies and gentlemen and gentlemen-who-like-to-dress-as-ladies.
What truly seperates Ed Schultz from Rush Limbaugh, ideologically speaking? Schultz is okay with the Jesus hatin’ and the ass-fuckin’.
It always comes down to ass-fuckin, don’t it?
[re=489920]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: He’s for it. As long as it’s unionized.
[re=489942]RoscoePColtraine[/re]: Now Roscoe, you know that Rushbo is on board with the ass-fucking, so long as we’re talking prepubescent male Thai street urchins. But he won’t brook no Jesus hatin’, son. Not on his watch.
True American Fact: About 15yrs ago Ed Schultz shot his dog in a “hunting accident.” He is thus as qualified as anyone to run for the most staid and officious body of Congress.
Godspeed you, Byron! May your tractor run smoothly and straddle the soybeans like a Norwegian springliek dancer.
At least Harold “The Democratic Norm Coleman” Ford isn’t moving to ND.
Why is Dorgan retiring? Has he ever explained? I can believe Rahm wanted to get rid of Dodd, but why Dorgan? Because he makes Kent Conrad (name wrong? Sorry–who gives a shit about ND?) look bad in comparison to actual Democrats, and if N.D. get a Spooky Doktor Tom or Inhofe clone, (entirely possible up there) the remaining Democrat will look better?
If so, that’s a full of shit strategy. And it’s all I got right now.
Later, losers.
[re=489931]Gopherit[/re]: It looks like someone in power has something against the letter “D” (maybe because of its frequent sponsorship of the socialist Sesame Street program). Jim DeMint and (doubly) Dick Durbin had better watch out.
There’s tremendous power in that comb-over.
Hmm, I’ve posted twice here and both got eated. Anyone else having troubles? Anyone? Please?
*twitches nervously*
[re=489969]user-of-owls[/re]: So okay, that one made it through, which means I must have used one of the secret words that sends your post into the worm hole. Which is pretty funny, since my vanished posts had to do with the potential candidacy of Lawrence Welk the Third.
[re=489921]dijetlo[/re]: LA?, hell San Diego has more people. This would be a totally different country if we didn’t have a Senate. thanks founding fathers.
[re=489921]dijetlo[/re]: Post of the day.
[re=489921]dijetlo[/re]: No offense intended to Vice President Biden, but there’s no good reason (except lolol state’s rights!) for places like Delaware or Connecticut to have the same representation in a legislative body that Texas or California does.
All offense intended, however, to Senator Joseph Lieberman and the retards that elected him.
The Senate has to remain equal between slave states and free states. That’s why there are two Dakotas instead of one. It’s in the Bible that way.
Hey Lord Byron, you got that one right, Gramm-Leach-Bliley was insidious. Wow, a US Senator does something honest or insightful. How about a golf clap? In 1999, I think most people here, and even Dolly Parton, would have seen the folly of that act — and we still are paying for it. Now if he would have coupled that with being one of the 23 nay votes on the War Authorization Act in 2002, then I might be impressed.
Jim, “pretty good senator” is equivalent to “the basic ethical standards of being the governor of Alaska”.
Get out while the getting is good Byron. The US Senate is dysfunctional clusterfuck. When 30 of your own party’s senators vote against your drug reimportation bill that would save a 100 billion dollars, well you know your just wasting your time. Thank you for being one of only 8 senators that voted against banking deregulation in 99, you also predicted the mess that would happen, less than 10 years later. Our country will have so much to look foward to with republicans and blue dog democrats that like to say they’re fiscal conservatives, while making Americans pay the highest prescription drug prices in the entire world. The United States Senate—-where good ideas go to die.
Dorgan may as well retire. He’s a progressive, and no progressive measures can pass the Senate, just moderate conservative pap as long as they retain the 60-vote rule, which they seem bound and determined to do. Let Democrats recruit a moderate conservative Blue Dog type to run for his seat, someone who’ll enjoy working with characters like Landrieu, Lieberman, Nelson, and Obama.
There are half as many folks in ND than in Detroit – and there’s nobody left in Detroit! It’s about voter recompense – Dornen lost the banks, now the pharma and insurance. The poor people in ND can hardly count on a couple grand an election cycle to vote – you can’t live on that, even in ND!…
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