Senator Franken was sworn in yesterday giving the Democrats 60 seats in the Senate and total control over the federal government.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee marked the event with the release of a new video “60″
No Checks. No Balances. No debate. No excuses. The Democrats own everything and have no one to blame now.
Steve Maley: Last Katrina FEMA trailer leaves New Orleans. #rsrh http://t.co/Tn485jYy
Moe Lane: MoeLane: #rsrh QotD, Been There, Done That Edition. http://t.co/Z77ubCQM
Dan McLaughlin: So, these Katrina victims spent 3 years in FEMA trailers under Obama. Heckuva job. http://t.co/W3XT8elu @KatMcKinley #rsrh
Moe Lane: MoeLane: #rsrh I just have one thing to add to Chimicanga-gate. http://t.co/RvjSJSpE
Moe Lane: MoeLane: #rsrh OK, I admit it: I'm probably guilty... http://t.co/RpaX4TrZ
Neil Stevens: Why the Democrat-driven rush to bring government control of the Internet? http://t.co/qyYNW5i9 #rsrh
Daniel Horowitz: Had Romney been elected the the Senate in '94, he would have been the male version of Olympia Snowe #rsrh
Neil Stevens: Checking in on the polls after the last caucuses - Unlikely Voter http://t.co/3uTiEzdZ via @unlikelyvoter #rsrh
Moe Lane: MoeLane: #rsrh RS at CPAC: Question and answer with Allen West. http://t.co/i0aIVrYS
Neil Stevens: It's not often I say KBH, McCain, and Murkowski are right. On opposing the cyberseucurity bill, they absolutely are. #rsrh
Al Franken Never Played Sports Growing Up
Swamp_Yankee (Diary) Wednesday, July 8th at 9:41AM EST (link)I can just tell by watching him move. That ungraceful uncoordinated idiot is a riot to watch though.
The NRSC gets one right
bk (Diary) Wednesday, July 8th at 9:42AM EST (link)for a change.
I get no consolation from this.
farstar99 (Diary) Wednesday, July 8th at 12:31PM EST (link)The RNC/GOP HQ types seem willing to sit by, watch it all burn, so they can come back later and say, “See? Now that America’s gone, you’re sorry, aren’t you? Told ya’ so.”
It’s like they think the damage the Obama cult is doing can be reversed.
It can’t.
That *is* a really good ad.
Moe Lane (Diary) Wednesday, July 8th at 9:46AM EST (link)For a start.
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David Hinz (Diary) Wednesday, July 8th at 9:52AM EST (link)Exactly. It’s a good ad, but it still revolves around the “We’re not them” theme, instead of “This is what we stand for.”
For too many elections the American people have been confronted with the “Vote for me — I don’t suck as bad as the other guy” style politics.
This ad defines who “They” are, now we need to define who “We” are!
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I disagree
suzieQ (Diary) Wednesday, July 8th at 11:02AM EST (link)The “we’re not Bush” blather worked pretty well for the dems. The empty suited One said nothing about what he would do, just lots of “hope” and “change”.
“Andy Stern, the head of the Service Employees International Union, is the union leader who probably best understands the challenge of the world market and the need to make American union members productive in the face of world competition.” – Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich Co-Sponsored a Global Warming Bill Calling for ‘International Agreement on Population Growth’
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David & Suzie, you're both right
Warrior (Diary) Wednesday, July 8th at 11:41AM EST (link)I heard an ABC radio “news” report yesterday starkly blaming the Republicans for holding up Sotomayor’s nomination, which may or may not be true. But it shows how willing to and skilled at blaming the Right for any and everything the old MSM remain.
I agree we need to hold their (Dems, MSM, whatever) feet to the fire viz a viz “The Blame,” but at the same time, we really do need someone like Sarah Palin to genuinely and forcefully articulate our beliefs. Small govt, lower taxes, respect for religion, equal rights for sexual-orientation minorities, etc.
We must have both, otherwise it’s way too easy to get lost in the tide of the times. My guess is the stimulus will become most successful at “helping people” right before the 2010 elections, so we can’t count on simply bashing Dems. We must stand for something and get that message out as well.
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MN should be proud of new Senator
LittleL1954 Wednesday, July 8th at 9:48AM EST (link)now the” land of 1000 lakes” has some place to go jump into when they are no longer able to afford to live after SNL jokester breakes their walets>
A slight correction, Mr. Spencer......
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Wednesday, July 8th at 9:49AM EST (link)When in doubt, blame can always be assigned to “my people”.
You know……..
Teh Eeeeevil Jooooooooooos.
In all honesty, I sincerely believe the Democrats will start some serious in-fighting and political cannibalism.
I’ll make the sweet tea and lemonade. You make the popcorn. Deal ?
Cheers !
To the People of Minnesota
Spartan4Life (Diary) Wednesday, July 8th at 9:57AM EST (link)This I don’t forgive.
I despise your state for sending us this despicable person. Did you think it was cute and quirky? Oh, those quirky Minnesotans….
Al Franken represents what our Congress has become. A joke.
Hailing from across the Mississippi from MN
ColdWarrior (Diary) Thursday, July 9th at 5:17PM EST (link)I have a certain perspective on that state. Wisconsin had a drinking age of 18 until the federal government’s forcing of the nationwide 21 year age. Minnesota’s was always 21, so we’d have all these Minnesotans coming over to our side of the river to drink.
Most Minnesotans just aren’t very smart. (All Redstaters excepted, of course!)
Okay, the following is just for fun.
Our beloved Badgers almost always beat their rodents in football.
How can you tell the Minnesota football chearleaders at a dance? They’re the ones on all fours.
I’ll be flying through the MSP airport on my way to the Redstate gathering. I’m trying to come up with some kind of t-shirt to make fun of the Minnesotans as I walk through the airport — hmmm, maybe www.thoseshirts.com will have one.
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This is heart warming for us but
mom2oneson (Diary) Wednesday, July 8th at 10:05AM EST (link)they need to dumb this down for the message to be communicated. I doubt most people understand the 60, them “owning” something nevermind a law, how laws create problems and I doubt most people even know what elections are being held in 2010.
I think the ominous background music works well
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Wednesday, July 8th at 10:16AM EST (link)and is rather appropriate.
I still don't think they have the big 60
suzieQ (Diary) Wednesday, July 8th at 11:00AM EST (link)that they think they do. Byrd and Kennedy are closer to dying than they are to voting. And I can think of half a dozen blue dogs that the dems can’t count on to uphold their socialist agenda. That brings them down to about 52, which is nowhere near enough for cloture. The GOP just needs to fight them every step of the way on every bill, so that they actually need the 60.
“Andy Stern, the head of the Service Employees International Union, is the union leader who probably best understands the challenge of the world market and the need to make American union members productive in the face of world competition.” – Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich Co-Sponsored a Global Warming Bill Calling for ‘International Agreement on Population Growth’
“I would have signed the assault weapon ban that came to his desk. I said I would have supported that and signed a similar bill in our state.” – Mitt Romney 2008
Gun Owners Of America on Mitt Romney
I always get tripped up over the pedantic stuff
BlueLandRed (Diary) Wednesday, July 8th at 11:03AM EST (link)The term checks and balances has historically referred to dividing power among three, separate, but equal branches of government, executive, a legislature, and a judiciary. The selection of Franken to the US Senate hasn’t changed the check and balances created by the founding fathers. We still have three branches of government. That sort of misstatement always ruins an ad for me.
And me, I’m still having a hard time saying Senator Frank___. Nope, still not rolling off the tongue.
Yeah, but with Sotomayor
Warrior (Diary) Wednesday, July 8th at 11:29AM EST (link)likely to be approved and the empty-suited-One likely to appoint another before his term is out, they will have all three.
“Racial criteria are irrational, irrelevant, [and] odious to our way of life.” — Thurgood Marshall for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1950 Supreme Court case of McLaurin v. Oklahoma
Same here
danielhill2008 (Diary) Wednesday, July 8th at 11:35AM EST (link)I recall several years ago hearing a lot about “checks and balances”, or the lack thereof, when it was the Dems in the minority. I expect that kind of misusage from individual politicians and/or “journalists”, but this is a big-league ad, and I’m disappointed they got that point wrong. Then again, like mom2oneson said above, dumb it down.