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Franken and the people of Minnesota need to file a lawsuit against the Republican Party for unfairly engaging in endless, frivolous litigation and trying to withhold this election from Franken even after a lot of decisions by courts and election officials in Franken's favor, fair and square. Of course Coleman is entitled to try and question Minnesota election law and voting system across counties. That is possible for him to use to tie up the results for weeks, even months more.
But it is not as if there were still reasonable doubt or as if the Democrats were trying to do any rush job. Not by now. Even Coleman's own lawyers say there is little chance he would prevail in the longrun. So, if the GOP-reactionaries continue to just be obstructionists and tie up this up in court just to keep Minnesota with one seat and to try to deny the Dems their 60 seat veto-proof majority, which they are still short of anyway even if Franken is seated,...if the GOP engages in endless suits, with no hope of winning in the end when in fact decision after decision finds for Franken, then it is time to sue the Minnesota state local and the national level RNC both for obstruction of the election process with RNC funding and backing to enable Coleman to carry this charade on and on. While the Party of Sore Loser-Cheater-Slanderers are working their way up whatever ladder is left for them to work their way up, it is clear that some sort of punitive action needs to be taken by now because the likelihood that the US Supreme Court would overturn lower court decisions based on careful, bipartisan vote counts that were well documented is very slim indeed. Even Coleman's own people concede that his appeals are not likely to prevail.
So, time for the House and Senate Democratic leadership to use the so-called Budget Reconciliation process in Congress, like Bush used 11 times, to jettison any need for 60 votes to get an override vote through, and time for the Democrats to just go over the GOP's obstructionist heads and pass legislation without Republican cooperation or participation. They played hardball when they had the majority and even after their massive election losses are still trying to act as if they were the winners of the last election.
I have said this before and it bears repeating yet again: Time for Democrats to exercise their option afforded by the Amercian people, who gave them the election. and just short circuit the Republicans schemes to hold up reforms that the public elected Obama and Congress to do.
The 30 or 40 percent dead ender third-reich-wing-base just needs to be shown that they can be sore losers if they want, but that the majority rules. Too bad, for the un-patriotic, un-American right wingers. They had eight years in which to create the 'utopia' we see around us today.
Yep: time to take out the trash and get reforms done that the MAJORITY of the American people voted for. I wish the mainstream media would stop feeding and whipping up the right wing fear-slander-smear-noise machine and start being more equal in its reporting.
