Minnesota Supreme Court: Certify Franken!

The Minnesota Supreme Court has issued its ruling: Franken won. While not "ordering" Gov. Tim "Bridge Collapse" Pawlenty to issue the certificate of election, its 5-0 ruling states that Franken is "entitled" to the certification and that it should occur forthwith. What's not known: will "Bridge Collapse" go through with his pledge to be guided by the Supreme Court decision and sign an election certificate, and will Norm "Sore Loser" Coleman decide to appeal in Federal court and thereby continue to defer his inevitable loss and the seating of Minnesota's second senator?

UPDATE: Late this afternoon, Norm "Sore Loser" Coleman CONCEDED (after 7 months!), no doubt to the consternation of Bill O'Liely and Sen. John "All Hat, No Cattle" Cornyn.

Minnesota Supreme Court To Gopher It?

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune (via Booman Tribune is reporting that the long-awaited decision by the Minnesota Supreme Court is due... any day now. (How many times have we heard that?!) Also quoted is Gov. Tim "Bridge Collapse" Pawlenty saying he would follow the court's direction and, if so ordered, sign the certificate naming Al Franken the winner over Norm "Sore Loser" Coleman. Someone needs to slip some Metamucil in the judges' afternoon tea and get them the hell off the pot so Minnesota has its full complement of Senators during the health care reform voting and beyond. [Bad pun alert!] Gopher it, gentlemen!

(Photo: the very lovely Norman - on the pot?)

The Normie Coleman Countdown

How many days before former Rethug Sen. Norman "Sore Loser" Coleman concedes the election to Sen.-elect Al Franken? Well, the Minnesota State Supreme Court is expected to rule soon, and is expected to direct Rethug Gov. Tim "Bad and" Pawlenty to certify Sen.-elect Franken as the winner, some 7 months after the election.

Let's start the bidding at 20 days. Hopefully, it will be sooner, but we suspect Sore Loser will drag this out through the U.S. Supreme Court, Minnesotans be damned.

(photo: Normie Coleman, trippin' in better days)

Handwriting On The Wall

There are reports that former Rethug Sen. Norm "Sore Loser" Coleman may be ready to give up his cynical fight to deny Senator-elect Al Franken the Minnesota Senate seat. The Minnesota Supreme Court is expected to rule within days on Sore Loser's challenge, and most are betting that the court will order Minnesota Gov. Tim "Good and" Pawlenty to certify Democrat Franken as the winner. Assuming the ruling will be issued this month, it will mark 8 months that Sore Loser has been throwing obstacles in Sen.-elect Franken's path to join Sen. Amy Klobuchar as Minnesota's second Senator -- and become the 60th Democrat in the U.S. Senate.

Mind-Altered State

Former Sen. Norm "Sore Loser" Coleman lost his seat last November to Sen.-elect Al Franken in a close race. And while the Minnesota elections board and a special three judge panel have each declared Franken the clear winner, Sore Loser isn't giving up gracefully. He's dragging out Franken's inevitable swearing-in in order to deny Senate Democrats a 60-vote filibuster-proof majority. Minnesota's Supreme Court is expected to order Minnesota's governor to certify Sen.-elect Franken early next month.

Amusingly, Sore Loser issued a statement yesterday that he intends to review Judge Sotomayor's record "when I am re-elected." <snicker> Yes, "SL", and when I become Emperor, you will be appointed the court jester.

(photo: Normie in more clear-headed days)

The Cornyn Limited Modified Long-Term Hangout Strategery

Sen. John Cornyn (Rethug-TX), the original urban "cowboy", has been touting the line that the Minnesota Senate election farce could drag on for years, and is threatening "World War III" if Al Franken is seated (assuming, as most do, the Minnesota court will throw out Stormin' Norman Coleman's suit any day now).

Cornyn, who is well-within the Texas Rethug tradition of being all hat and no cattle, should continue to paint himself in a corner with pronouncements like this, which are really just sad attempts to "play the refs" in the ongoing but ultimately fruitless quest by Stormin' Norman to hold on to his seat. In so doing, Cornyn will be exposed to an even wider audience as the giant ass bubble that he is.