Cornyn Indicates Senate GOP Will Resist Seating Al Franken

Who received the Franken email.. Cornyn is full of scheetz. It just said, the results are looking good... Coleman is the one who keeps wanting to disqualify ballot counting... And has the record for court challenges of the electoral commission doing it's work.. Will Senate Democratic leadership allow Minnesotans to not seat their duly elected senator..If so, they are worthless. We need get a backbone and stand up to Cornyn... But, then Cornyn would be more comfortable sticking the senate with another senator presently undergoing ethics investigations..
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It now looks like the Senate GOP could end up trying to block the seating of Al Franken, assuming he is declared the winner next week in the Minnesota recount. NRSC chairman John Cornyn put out a statement accusing the Franken campaign of falsely declaring victory, and denouncing the idea of provisionally seating him while the expected legal dispute of the election is resolved:

It needs to be pointed out that that there are multiple falsehoods in this statement. First, the Franken campaign has not declared victory, instead only expressing a very high degree of confidence that they will win. The statement also blames Franken for "creating additional chaos and disorder" on the issue of rejected absentee ballots, when by all appearances it's the Coleman campaign that is offering a cherry-picked list of ballots they want counted.

And finally, Cornyn alleges that it is "unprecedented" to seat someone while an election is still being disputed. As recently as 2007, Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL) was seated without prejudice by the majority-Democratic House while his election was being contested, and in 1997 the majority-Republican Senate provisionally seated Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) after her GOP opponent alleged irregularities in her very narrow win.


http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/12/cornyn_indicates_senate_gop_wi.php

...and no one gives a shit what they think anymore.

i wish the democrats would act like a majority.

We only need Senator Reid to bring it up for a vote first thing, and seat Al Franken as the junior Senator from Minnesota

filibuster the 'committee of the whole.. They quite likely will hold up Senate business over the Franken seating. Please, all ; let's not take this sitting down...

And the GOP has no right to blame Franken when it was Coleman who wanted to sloth the whole thing off, claiming "it's a waste of taxpayer money". Now Coleman wants to funnel in millions. What a wanker, and it's not recommended to put Preparation-H on that bit either...

Goes against the basic principles of folks like Sen. Cornyn and the new Republicans. Who are the true patriots, Senator?

It's time to force their hand> Make them Filibuster and then call them Obstructionistas. That's what they would do in this case. Then Throw the nuclear option at them "remember their threat to abolish the filibuster". God I wish they'd forced them to do that. Christ I'm so sick of congress critters who can't learn recent History.

I am not so sure.. Should Franken get his certificate calling him the victor.

who were screaming for a straight up and down vote on judicial nominees not very long ago.