Fear: Sen. Al Franken now ready to delay Obamacare...

You can smell the fear coming from democrats up for re-election...

The Washington Post reports:

Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) says he would be open to a brief delay in the individual mandate if the problems with HealthCare.gov aren't fixed by the end of the month, according to Minnesota Public Radio.

"I think then we have to consider extending the deadline for the mandate, but let’s hope that doesn't happen," Franken told MPR.

Franken has so far been relatively quiet about potential changes to the health-care law, but he now joins a growing group of Senate Democrats in seats that could be targeted by the GOP in 2014 who are speaking up on the issue.

Amusing Video: Schumer, Franken scurry from questions about IRS scandal

Watch Demos scurry like cockroaches...

Schumer, Franken scurry from questions about IRS scandal 


Note: Both Schumer and Franken asked the IRS to crack down on conservative groups.

The Left Eats The Left: MSNBC’s Ed Schultz Calls Liberal Democrat Al Franken The “Most Inept Senator I’ve Ever Seen”

For once, I have to agree with Ed Schultz.

Rand Paul Wants Al Franken to be his Mentor?

As a Rand Paul voter, I am dumbfounded. Al Franken is an embarrassment to the U.S. Senate.
 

(Mediaite)- It would appear that a rather unexpected friendship has bloomed in our nation’s capital: Sen. Al Franken, a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, has found something of a kindred spirit in Kentucky’s Rand Paul, the freshman senator who has plans to form a Senate Tea Party Caucus.

The two men get along so well, in fact, that Paul has asked Franken to act as his Democratic mentor.

Sen. Al Franken: Opposition to the [mosque] project “one of the most disgraceful things that I’ve heard.”

It is Al Franken that is really disgraceful.

The Hill reported:

Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) weighed in on the controversy over a proposed mosque near the World Trade Center site Wednesday, calling the recent opposition to the project “one of the most disgraceful things that I’ve heard."

Video: Al Franken Naps During Kagan Hearing

I guess the joke from Minnesota has already made up his mind how he will vote on President Obama's SCOTUS nominee Elena Kagan. Minnesota Senator Al Franken was seen napping and doodling during a confirmation hearing. Of course, Kagen is being vague and disingenuous. She will not out herself as a far-left progressive activist jurist. Franken taking a nap may be the most noteworthy event that occurs during the hearings.

The People of Minnesota Should be Ashamed of Al Franken

Al Franken is your Senator. Many of you voted against him and the election was close enough it could be stolen. But nevertheless, Al Franken is your Senator and he is a joke. Yesterday, Al Franken was disrespectful to Senator Lieberman.

About a half hour ago, Sen. Joe Lieberman was making remarks on Medicare on the Senate floor when his allotted time expired. As is standard practice in the Senate, Lieberman asked the chair for a few minutes of additional time to conclude, “without objection.”

But the presiding officer, one Sen. Al Franken, said no. “In my capacity as Senator from Minnesota, I object.”

Lieberman laughed. “Really? Okay, I don't take it personally.”

This must be part of the new atmosphere Obama promised to bring to Washington.

Did ACORN Help Franken Steal His Senate Seat?

Many people think Al Franken stole his Senate seat. Franken won by the razor thin margin of 312 votes out of about 3 million cast. ACORN claims to have registered 43,000 new voters in Minnesota. With ACORN's record, it is hard to say how many of those are legitimate. Many of these "newly registered voters" may have voted illegally. Minnesota's laws on proof of voter eligibility are notoriously loose.

From the Minnesota Star-Tribune:

But ACORN does have a special place in its heart for at least one prominent Minnesota politician. Last year, it showered praise on Al Franken, endorsing his run for the U.S. Senate. Franken returned the esteem: "I'm thrilled and honored to receive this endorsement," he gushed in a press release. He added that he was "more motivated than ever to work with ACORN."

...ACORN's registration drives "routinely produce fraudulent registrations," ...

Hat tip Gateway Pundit.

Glenn Beck Mocks Franken and Schumer (video)

Glenn Beck mocked Senators Franken's and Schumer's performances at Sotomayor's hearing. No two senators ever deserved it more.

Glenn Beck Mocks Senators Al Franken & Chuck Schumer At Sotomayor Hearing (video)

Al Franken Asks Sotomayor the Dumbest Question (video)

Senator Al Frankin grilled SCOTUS nominee Sonia SotoMayor about a "Perry Mason" episode. We knew this guy was going to be a joke.

Franken & Sotomayor Discuss 'Perry Mason' Episodes During Hearing

New Republican Ad "60" Commemorates Democrats Getting 60 Votes

Here is the ad response of the National Republican Senatorial Committee to Al Franken giving Democrats a filibuster proof 60 votes.



From the video:

"The Democrats have total control. No checks. No balances... In 2010, you can hold them accountable."

New Republican Ad "60" Commemorates Democrats Getting 60 Votes

Bill O'Reilly welcomes Al Frankin to the Senate (video)

Bill O'Reilly calls it like it is with Al Frankin. He called Al Frankin a "dishonest Far Left zealot" on Monday's program.

Bill O'Reilly Welcomes Al Franken To U.S. Senate (video)


From YouTube:

In his "reality check" segment, Bill O'Reilly ushers in the Al Franken era in the U.S. Senate. "With people like Franken on the Hill, this country is in deep trouble."

WSJ Practically Accuses Franken of Stealing Election

The Wall Street Journal explains how Al Franken stole the election in the Minnesota Senator's race. We knew this, but it is surprising to see the WSJ actually make the case. Half the residents of Minnesota should be ashamed for sending this joke to Washington.

From WSJ:

The Minnesota Supreme Court yesterday declared Democrat Al Franken the winner of last year's disputed Senate race, and Republican incumbent Norm Coleman's gracious concession at least spares the state any further legal combat. The unfortunate lesson is that you don't need to win the vote on Election Day as long as your lawyers are creative enough to have enough new or disqualified ballots counted after the fact.

Mr. Franken trailed Mr. Coleman by 725 votes after the initial count on election night, and 215 after the first canvass. The Democrat's strategy from the start was to manipulate the recount in a way that would discover votes that could add to his total. The Franken legal team swarmed the recount, aggressively demanding that votes that had been disqualified be added to his count, while others be denied for Mr. Coleman.

But the team's real goldmine were absentee ballots, thousands of which the Franken team claimed had been mistakenly rejected. While Mr. Coleman's lawyers demanded a uniform standard for how counties should re-evaluate these rejected ballots, the Franken team ginned up an additional 1,350 absentees from Franken-leaning counties. By the time this treasure hunt ended, Mr. Franken was 312 votes up, and Mr. Coleman was left to file legal briefs.

What Mr. Franken understood was that courts would later be loathe to overrule decisions made by the canvassing board, however arbitrary those decisions were. He was right. The three-judge panel overseeing the Coleman legal challenge, and the Supreme Court that reviewed the panel's findings, in essence found that Mr. Coleman hadn't demonstrated a willful or malicious attempt on behalf of officials to deny him the election. And so they refused to reopen what had become a forbidding tangle of irregularities. Mr. Coleman didn't lose the election. He lost the fight to stop the state canvassing board from changing the vote-counting rules after the fact. (accent is mine)

Republican Norm Coleman continues to fight for fairness

The three-judge panel reviewing the Minnesota Senate race has declared Democrat Al Franken the winner, but Republican Norm Coleman intends to appeal to the state's Supreme Court. Of course Democrats are pressing for him to give up. The main issue is absentee ballots. Early in the recount, Several hundred questionable absentee ballots from Democratic precincts were allowed to be counted. This is where Al Franken got his narrow lead. Later, the three judge panel made a decision about which absentee ballots should be counted. This kept Norm Coleman from being able to use several thousand from precincts he felt would be favorable. The Al Franken absentee ballots would be uncountable under the new rules, but they were allowed to stay in the count anyway. This creates a double standard that is unfair to Coleman. The WSJ is reporting,

Case in point: the panel's dismal handling of absentee ballots. Early in the recount, the Franken team howled that some absentee votes had been erroneously rejected by local officials. We warned at the time that this was dangerous territory, designed to pressure election officials into accepting rejected ballots after the fact.

Yet instead of shutting this Franken request down, or early on issuing a clear set of rules as to which absentees were valid, the state Supreme Court and the canvassing board oversaw a haphazard process by which some counties submitted new batches to be included in the tally, while other counties did not. The resulting additional 933 ballots were largely responsible for Mr. Franken's narrow lead.

During the contest trial, the Coleman team presented evidence of a further 6,500 absentees that it felt deserved to be included under the process that had produced the prior 933. The three judges then finally defined what constituted a "legal" absentee ballot. Countable ballots, for instance, had to contain the signature of the voter, complete registration information, and proper witness credentials.

But the panel only applied these standards going forward, severely reducing the universe of additional absentees that the Coleman team could hope to have included. In the end, the three judges allowed only about 350 additional absentees to be counted. The panel also did nothing about the hundreds, possibly thousands, of absentees that have already been legally included, yet are now "illegal" according to the panel's own ex-post definition.