Norm Coleman Ready To Give Up Fight, Allies Say

Source: Huffington Post

National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn on Wednesday suggested that former Sen. Norm Coleman's long fight was almost over, saying that he's support his old colleague "until he decides to hang it up one way or another."

Now Roll Call has reported that Coleman himself appears ready to hang it up pretty soon. While party leaders are prepared to back him in a fight to the Supreme Court, sources close to Coleman say that if he loses in the Minnesota Supreme Court he will accept the result.

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Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/04/norm-coleman-ready-to-giv_n_211411.html

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About time! Apparently Gov. Pawlenty has already said he will abide by the Court ruling, which looks very much in favor of Franken.

Almost there!!!

and Oreally too....

It would probably take down YouTube.

...that we'll never get back.

But we have 5.5 years of fun to look forward to!

And considering his arrival will give the Dems 60, it will be something of a celebration.

Plus, he'll be hounded by the media for a few weeks given his unlikely story from comedian to Senator, so we'll see and hear him everywhere (though he might be noticeably absent on a certain channel called Faux News)!

It includes Lieberman and Spector.

I thought Lieberman was not in the "currently 59" equation ...

He ain't as bad as some Blue Dogs on domestic issues.

On domestic spending . Priorities. He's one of the better dems.

pay to see that.

when O'Lielly has to say "Yesterday President Obama met with Senator Franken to discuss......."

FAUX News better have a crew of paramedics on hand to rush Bill to the ER after that throbbing blood vessel on his forehead explodes. Couldn't happen to a more deserving guy.

loser any longer....Go Al!

He's dragged this out for 7 months after telling Franken to waive the state-mandated automatic recount and now after bombing before the Minnesota S.C. he's ready to hang it up? What a guy! I hope he has to pay every cent of Franken's attorney fees.

Now I hope Bill O'Reilly's head explodes when he has to report that SENATOR Franken will be sworn in. I doubt he'd have the balls to call a U.S. Senator "Senator Smiley' but we'll see about that. If he does, I think KO, Rachel and everyone else who sees how ridiculous this self-important ass is calls him "O'Falafel"

:patriot:

Roll Call cited sources who indicate Coleman will not seek a further appeal if he loses in the state Supreme Court. He will be done he if he loses at the state Supreme Court, one Republican predicted.

until I hear it comes directly from Coleman, and written down as such. What he did was totally bullshit. Now there's talk about him running for governor. If that race is close I can assume the same type of hype.

as I think Minnesotans are sick to death of this man. If he had accepted defeat gracefully, he might have had a political future, but now I think he needs to find another career.

like a Walmart greeter.

and his ghoulish looks would scare the children.

:spray:

He'll go on as long as KKKarl and Rush tell him to. Its just that now the curve is not looking good. They have played this as long as they could as it was useful in keeping Al out of the senate. I think Norm has been pleading with his overlords to just let it go for awhile now, as this petulant behavior is killing any chance at a comeback, but the GOP are a disciplined lot, if nothing else.

and there's not an appeal or some other contrary direction from a federal court -- you know, that's my duty ..."

see: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/pawlenty-ill-certify-frankens-election----if-theres-no-order-against-it-from-a-federal-court.php

Seriously I thought this election was never gonna end! :woohoo:

I hope you like prison food, Nahmie.

"allowing" him to give up the fight instead of just saying he got his ass kicked, wasted taxpayer dollars and attempted to circumvent the election process and the will of the people.

How mighty special that Pawlenty "will abide the court ruling".

I am so sick of the republicans but I think I am sicker of the way the MSM allows them to frame things. If a Democrat did that, God and country would surely suffer and they would suffer heavily on a news loop on every channel every minute of the day.

Fucking obstructionist bastards.

Hope Al gets this and then maybe we can have some incite on election reform which he was not interested in at the time

MY BEST TO YOU AL .....you deserve to win !!!

Election reform bills quietly advancing that would let Minnesota 'catch up' with much of nation

By Jay Weiner | Thursday, April 23, 2009

Away from the noise and glare of the Norm Coleman-Al Franken legal battle, a collection of election reform bills has been moving slowly and somewhat quietly through the Minnesota House and Senate.

Together, the pieces of legislation, if passed, would fundamentally change the way Minnesotans vote and the state's election system operates.

Moving toward final committee consideration — or, in some cases, already on the Senate or House floors — the bills would mean, among other things:
• Easier registration.
• Early voting at polling places using voting machines weeks before Election Day.
• Fewer absentee ballots and a substantial reduction in the administrative headaches that go with them.
• Less of a chance of an automatic publicly funded recount.
• The option of a postponed election in the event of a late-campaign controversy or tragedy, as in the death of Paul Wellstone 10 days before the 2002 U.S. Senate election.

http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2009/04/23/8285/election_reform_bills_quietly_advancing_that_would_let_minnesota_catch_up_with_much_of_nation

Unfortunately, we'll have to wait until we're rid of T-Paw (aka, Tim Pawlenty) in order to implement these election reform bills. Jerk.

it was pretty obvious radio was not his best format...

I remember being quite pissed at him at the the time regarding his lack of interest, IMO,regarding election reform.

However, I'm really looking forward to Senator Franken. :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

I'm going to send just a one page letter that says:


Senator Al Franken

be able to rest in peace.

Please post that as a thread title on the big day. Rest in peace Paul, rest in peace.

Maybe you can star in a movie version of Mr. Ed?

Coleman, you're no Mr. Ed

pardon my redundancy, but it's about fucking time. and while we're at it, fuck you, rush.

Some rational heads in the GOP (they don't add up to more than 5 in number) are realizing that the current strategy of NO, HELL NO, sniffling, defending torture and fighting Sotomajor isn't winning. I think we will see a real battle now between the cooler heads and the ideologues. The ideologues think that if they just huff and puff enough, all the voters will come their way. For one I hope the ideologues win the argument as that assures a more progressive majority.

You lost, Norm. Let it go.

1. It's about freakin' time.
2. Aside from the circus and all of the $ spent, did this have any tangible effect on any legistlation over the past six months? As far as I can tell, it was a boondoggle that had no actual impact.

They don't play fair, they don't keep promises, and they lie ALL THE TIME.

that I was not planning on holding my breath for Normy to concede.

:hide:

I am willing to bet the GOP will fight this all the way to the Supreme Court and beyond!!


:puke:

But Pawlenty, maybe.

I really don't think Coleman was "fighting" Franken. I think he was just being obstinate and obnoxious.

He never had a chance...

Such a wuss. He should fight on until the next election.

from being added to the democratic side of the aisle...fucking republicans!

I'll believe it when I see it.

Most of us were ready for him to give it up 3 months ago.

That is all. :patriot:

What a swell guy.

he needs the wingnuts who hate Franken for the Primary but that same move would hurt him in the general election, especially among people in his own state.

It will be 60 to 39 and time to rub the Republicans noses in the dirt.

are probably going to crush our souls. I hope Franken takes the Wellstone route to improvements for the people. Bayh - and boys and girls are about improvments for corporations. And then we have our worst destroyers - Feinstein and Schumer. I hope I'm right about Franken and wrong about the Bayh gang. I even hope I'm wrong about Feinstein and Schumer, but they have showed their hand and lay down too many times heartwrenching times.

For example, there's likely to be a filibuster against Dawn Johnsen, given that Obama committed the unpardonable sin of nominating an honest, intelligent lawyer to sit in Yoo's old seat at the Office of Legal Counsel. Specter hasn't said how he'll vote on the cloture motion. The good news, though, is that Richard Lugar (R-IN) has endorsed his constituent, Johnsen. That means that, once Al shows up, we can get to 60 even if Specter defects (as long as we can hold all the other Dems).

On many issues, Collins and Snowe will be prime targets for flipping a Republican. As Lugar's position illustrates, though, others are possibles on specific votes.

represented Clinton (I think it was before the Senate)? If yes, I remember being very impressed. I though she was magnificent, in fact. Calm, factual. She had it together.

It is a target rich environment.

With the success of our President Barack Obama, we have the opportunity to extend our power in the Senate by working to ensure some (or even all) of the following elections have a Democrat in the seat when 2011 rolls around.

Bennett, Robert F. - (R - UT)
Bond, Christopher S. - (R - MO)
Brownback, Sam - (R - KS)
Bunning, Jim - (R - KY)
Burr, Richard - (R - NC
Coburn, Tom - (R - OK)
Crapo, Mike - (R - ID)
DeMint, Jim - (R - SC)
Grassley, Chuck - (R - IA)
Gregg, Judd - (R - NH)
Isakson, Johnny - (R - GA)
Martinez, Mel - (R - FL)
McCain, John - (R - AZ)
Murkowski, Lisa - (R - AK)
Shelby, Richard C. - (R - AL)
Thune, John - (R - SD)
Vitter, David - (R - LA)
Voinovich, George V. - (R - OH)

If our Senate Majority Leader, the Honorable Harry Reid, would be somewhat more aggressive, the Democratic Party as a whole would be much better off. We need to speak with one voice, a back our most important legislation first. If we are successful with the big bills, the Republicans will be shown for the party of special interests that they are.

i was just wondering what was happening with this case this morning.

King Harold considering surrender in Battle of Hastings.
Dinosaurs thinking of conceding to asteroid.

What took you so long, Norm?

Particularly if the Minnesota SC goes 5-0 against Norm.

No one will remember the name of Coleman's lawyer - Friedburg.

People will remember Coleman with derision.

There will be a very key memory for me. I ask others to please remember the name of Ben Ginzberg. A key Republican operative from the big leauges of Republicanism was sent to Minnesota to lead the strategy of delaying Franken and trying to find an angle. He was there the entire time. He was there in 2000. He is always there. There will be no reason to change my mind about him. I ask you to remember his name as the guide through this delay. The fund raiser. The stick. The prod. The schemer.

I honestly kind of the got the feeling a few weeks ago when Franken asked the state supreme court to force the governor to sign the certification of election and Coleman's nonreaction to it that he wasn't really in the mood to keep the fight going on forever. Maybe this is part of why GOP governor has signaled a willingness to sign the certification recently, because he knows Coleman will stop after the state supreme court.

If the Court rules that the methods the counties used to determine eligible ballots is not uniform (Coleman's argument) then the counties would have to come up with a method that is acceptable to the Court which determines legitimate ballots

Don't count anything out yet!

Oh and here is what Rash Limpballs is going to look like when The Swear in Al!

From the book LIVE from NEW YORK – a quote from Tom Davis

“One day Henry Kissinger calls up and the call is picked up at an NBC page’s desk. And the page goes, “Henry Kissinger’s on the phone. He wants tickets for his son.” And Al grabs the phone and yells into it, “You know, if it hadn’t been for the Christmas bombing in Cambodia, you could’ve had your fucking tickets!”

Seat the man for Chrissakes, we need this voice in the Senate.

now that Gov. Pawlenty has said he won't seek reelection.

We have the likes of Coleman and probably Michelle Bachmann running under the GOP flag. The DFL might finally have a shot at retaking the Minnesota Governor's office. They usually loses because there's always a left-leaning Independent candidate and Green Party candidate.