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Dinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 10:51 AM
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Just How Fucking Goddamned Long Are We Going To Have To Wait For A Senator In Minnesota?
Edited on Thu Feb-12-09 10:54 AM by Dinger
I'm just fucking asking.:mad:

Edited to ad "Fucking" to the thread title. Sorry for the delay.
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PretzelWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 10:52 AM
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1. I KNOW!! Are they waiting for another small airplane crash? JAYZUS.
just put Franken in office and be done with it.
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firedupdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 10:53 AM
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2. It's pretty ridiculous. The election was last November! The
last I read, Coleman said God wanted him to keep on fighting. I think it stinks. Seems like a court should have ended this long ago.
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grannie4peace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 10:53 AM
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3. i read franken was in washington :):)
it's getting closer :):shrug:
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terisan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 11:00 AM
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4. The drawn out court proceedings are a blot on Democracy. nt
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mnhtnbb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 11:00 AM
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5. Probably as long as Harry Reid won't assert himself by seating Franken.
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bunkerbuster1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 03:18 PM
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15. Not to hand "Give 'Em Head, Harry" Reid too much credit, but...
I don't see him being able to do it over a senate filibuster.

I mean, if I were Olympia Snowe I don't think I'd vote for cloture on that one. Just sayin'. The GOP won't turn on their own like that, so long as Coleman wants to go on fighting.

I agree, though, that it's ridiculous, and at some point I suspect Reid IS going to have to push this thing. Legal challenges can take years. That ain't right.
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PBS Poll-435 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 04:47 PM
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18. I don't think Reid can do anything without an election certificate
That was the delay with Burris, remember?

If he seated Al before the SOS issues the certificate and the governor signs it, it would look hypocritical and uberpolitical
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shifting_sands Donating Member (277 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 11:00 AM
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6. ???
Minnesota doesn't seem to care why does anyone else
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11 Bravo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 12:58 PM
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10. Ummm, because it would mean one more reliably progressive vote in the Senate?
:shrug:
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 11:06 AM
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7. This is getting ridiculous. Seat Franken now,
Too much time hs been allowed to pass.
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 11:11 AM
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8. As long as the courts feel like staying in the newspapers. nt
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backscatter712 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 11:17 AM
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9. I read that the court was losing patience with Coleman.
After 12 days of drip-drip-drip fighting over a single ballot at a time, the courts were ordering the Coleman and Franken campaign to sort the ballots into categories and speed things up.

It's probably going to be a couple weeks, but Al will get seated. Certainly not multiple months.
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Retrograde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 01:53 PM
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11. When Hell freezes over or Coleman starts showing some sense
my money's on the former
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riqster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 02:19 PM
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12. Until the legally-mandated process is completed
It may be slow, but compare Minnesota with the rush-to-judgement, fuzzy-laws, screw-the-voter scenarios we had in Ohio, New Mexico, and Florida in recent years.

Speaking as a Buckeye who has been disenfranchised in the past, I think your state has it right.
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Posteritatis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 02:41 PM
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13. *shakes the angryfist at DU for not allowing comment recommendations* (nt)
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riqster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 04:46 PM
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17. *Bows and says thanks* nt
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snooper2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 03:12 PM
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14. Around June or July you should
know- :rofl:
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S_E_Fudd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 04:16 PM
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16. My guess is early September ...
Edited on Thu Feb-12-09 04:16 PM by S_E_Fudd
At the rate things are going with Coleman's people having no limitation on what can be introduced and how many theories without evidence they are allowed to preent....

The recount was a case study in how to conduct one...

However since then, it has become a farce!!!
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