Upset On Horizon? Franken Surging Ahead In Minnesota Senate Race
A funny thing seems to be happening in Minnesota: Al Franken, who trailed in the polls for a long time and whose candidacy was written off by many observers, now seems to be surging ahead of incumbent GOP Sen. Norm Coleman.
Don't look now, but he just might win.
The last three polls of the race have put Franken ahead. Rasmussen had it yesterday at Franken 43%, Coleman 37%, and Independence Party candidate Dean Barkley 17%. The University of Minnesota has it at Franken 41%, Coleman 37%, and Barkley 14%. And the Star Tribune puts it at Franken 43%, Coleman 34%, and Barkley 18%.
And as of yesterday afternoon, Pollster.com has given Franken a narrow lead of 40.0%-39.2% in its trend-line.
So how on earth did a foul-mouthed comedian talk his way to the point where he may knock off an established GOP incumbent?
Franken's surge, like so many other good numbers for the Democrats over the last few weeks, can really be traced to one thing: The economy. The state university's poll puts it in perspective perfectly: In a sampling taken right before the vote on the bailout, Coleman was up 40%-31%. In a new sample taken after the bailout, the two switched places, giving Franken a lead of 41%-37%
The GOP's harsh negative ads could also be creating a backlash in a Midwestern state that's known for clean politics. Recently, the NRSC were caught twisting around footage of Franken doing a humorous impersonation of the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, in order to make Franken look manic and angry -- a move that drastically undercuts the credibility of all their other attacks.
Franken was quick to jump on this mistake, releasing a new one-minute TV ad yesterday, hammering the GOP on exactly this point:
"Look familiar?" the announcer says. "That's right. Ads for Norm Coleman use this footage of Al Franken telling this story about Paul Wellstone and his son and try to make is seem like he was angry. Minnesota deserves better."
Things are only getting worse for Coleman from here, thanks to reports that a wealthy donor has been buying him luxurious clothing. Coleman is refusing to confirm or deny the story, and the tale culminated in a truly disastrous press conference by his campaign manager the other day.
Today Coleman himself faces the press in order to answer questions about this report, in an effort to reverse his slide. The next four weeks should be a very fun time in Minnesota.
Landslide on the horizon, with the world's longest coattails.
People in America are not happy with the Republicans as our life savings continue to disappear -
October 10, 2008 9:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
And gosh darn-it, people like him!
October 10, 2008 11:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
I heard their first debate in Rochester and Franken did great. I think he was able to dispel a lot of the nonsense that Coleman was putting out there about him. People seem to really under appreciate Franken's ability to connect with people in a live setting.
October 10, 2008 9:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
That's because Al Franken is a mensch. People like that.
October 10, 2008 10:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
The first thing I want to see Franken do is attempt to go on O'Reilly's show. Bill O'Reilly facing off against... SENATOR AL FRANKEN.
Oh my stars, that would be a glorious day.
October 10, 2008 9:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
Think Rush "Big Fat Idiot" Limbaugh will have him on too?
October 10, 2008 10:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
In response to all the comments wishing Al Franken would win his race against Norm Coleman, I say to you, "PONY UP, PEOPLE!" There are 25 days left in this campaign and there are phone numbers to dial, lawn signs to print, air time to buy. All of this takes money.
If you really want to see O'Reilly's gi-normous head explode when Franken is sworn in as a U.S. Senator, help pay for the privelege and send him some dough! I did and I live nowhere near Minnesota. But every Senator can potentially effect every one of us.
Do it now. Send money to alfranken.com (and any other politically progressive worthies whom you've been admiring from afar).
And just in case I didn't stress this enough...
DO IT NOW!!!
October 10, 2008 12:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
OT: Just saw a 527 ad from Americaissuesproject attacking dems/feddie mac about the economic chaos.
October 10, 2008 9:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
Why the fuck are the Republicans doing this? They ruined the country totally and now they are doing everything they can to exploit this nightmare by dividing us up with lies again.
Republicans are evil.
End of story.
October 10, 2008 10:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
Haven't you heard: Clinton is responsible for the sub-prime mess. In case you didn't get the wingnut email, the "real" story is that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac started changing their loan approval criteria in 1999. So, of course, EVERYTHING that has happened since 1999 is Clinton's fault. Yes, I know this "logic" is horrible, but if you're a repub, what you gonna do?
P.S. Remember Rush Limbaugh attributes every piece of good news to the "Reagan tax cuts."
October 10, 2008 5:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry mythbuster, the Clintons did not cause the subprime mess and subsequent meltdown of our economy (although they surely wish they had). No, Senator John McCain revealed today that it was yet another Barak Obama/William Ayers conspiracy - what will they do next??
So there you go, the truth, right from the mouth of a truly honorable man, and a POW to boot.
October 10, 2008 11:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Will Oreilly's head explode on election night when Al gives his victory speech?
October 10, 2008 10:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
I sure hope he and Rush Limbaugh who Is a Big Fat Idiot do.
http://www.amazon.com/Rush-Limbaugh-Big-Fat-Idiot/dp/0440508649
October 10, 2008 10:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's a great image, and I wish it were so. But O'Reilly's head would only explode if every seat in Congress became Republican. The man thrives... thrives... on controversy and confrontation. As strange as it sounds, he will LOVE having Franken in Congress, because guys like O'Reilly have no ethics or morals, they only have a mean engine of hate where a heart should be. Controversy is their raw meat, so Franken guarantees O'Reilly a job, unfortunate as that is.
October 10, 2008 11:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
I hope that Al Franken wins just to see O'reilly's head EXPLODE!!!
October 10, 2008 10:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
I hope they all explode - O'Lielly, Hannity, Michelle fucking Malkin - fucking hateful people - all of them.
I wish they'd go away.
October 10, 2008 10:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
Whenever Malkin is interviewed on TV, I expect her jaw to detach and her inner jaw a la Alien, to snap out.
October 10, 2008 5:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Franken is also running effective soft ads featuring his wife, Frannie. He's doing a good job of conveying his sincerity. Even my republican mom has decided to vote for him. (Making both my parents all blue for the first time in their 80 year old lives)
Al - Please, please, please win. You would have to be from here to appreciate what a blow it was to lose Wellstone and his seat to Mayor Quimby. A lot of us had to be kept away from stoves and cutlery for months.
October 10, 2008 10:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
Not just in Minnesota. I was in my doctor's office waiting room that morning in 2002 when the news came on the TV tuned to CNN. I actually screamed in horror. I'd sent Wellstone money because of his courageous stands against Smirky/Darth, and his death was a kick in the teeth.
Paul had come to Kentucky on a poverty tour, and we'd seen for ourselves the genuinely good man he was.
Looking back, his death was a harbinger of disaster. The dems collapsed in cowardice and let bush attack Iraq, and it's been downhill from there.
October 10, 2008 10:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
Absloutely right, it was like a body blow to me here in Virginia, too. A lot of us out here in not-so-blue America looked up to Wellstone as the inspirational example of what political courage meant.
October 10, 2008 6:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
I will never forget that day, many people won't
I was on record a few months ago saying I wouldn't vote for Franken nor did I think he would win, but have been coming around (a little). The fact that some low-level Coleman hack would misrepresent Franken with this footage disgusts me. I'm sure Coleman wouldn't have approved if he had known, shady guy that he is. Even Coleman was shaken the day Wellstone and the seven others died. I plan to vote for Franken now and actually think he might win. I like the ads with his wife, too.
October 10, 2008 7:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
C'mon, Al! You can take this guy! You can take this guy!!!
October 10, 2008 10:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
Why are all these idiots selling off at panic prices? Why don't they hold the stock until this is over? This is how you lose your money - quit selling off in a panic - it's making it worse.
Jebus.
Sorry - the market is front in center in my head - I can't hardly think about Franken, who I hope with all my heart wins this thing.
October 10, 2008 10:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
Warren Buffet said that the stock market is a means of transferring wealth from the active to the patient. Anyone could see this coming. I sold off almost all my US stock positions a year and a half ago.
Stock markets almost always rise after a presidential election, particularly if the WH changes parties. It's almost time to buy back in.
October 10, 2008 10:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
True and I'm hoping the election stops this.
Of course it will stabilize eventually - that's why this panic sell-off that is making it crash worse is so damn stupid.
You can't just sell off at the bottom - just hold the fucking stock until this is over and it will help.
Goddamn - I'm sorry this is killing me.
October 10, 2008 10:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
Don't let it get to you, Tena. Things are gonna be fine. I've lost a fortune on paper. But the bastards haven't taken my shares away from me yet. :) Go to Google and look at the Dow chart set to the maximum view. Then sit back, roll a big phattie and relix. (I'm sorry, I've never rolled a big phattie in my life, but I thought it sounded sorta good when I wrote it.)
October 10, 2008 11:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
It sounds wonderful and I'm about ready this morning.
I've held on - but the rabble rousing coupled with the market panic all over the world is finally getting to me.
Thanks for putting up with me.
October 10, 2008 11:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
This is ALL psychology at this point. I'm thinking the bottom should be around 8200, but who knows? Here's what I think is happening: a complete failure of leadership. The leader of the free world is a clueless buffoon, this crisis confirms it, and no one knows who else to look to for leadership.
If Obama wanted to do himself (and the world) a HUGE favor today, he'd step up and use his prodigious oratorical skills to deliver a "nothing to fear but fear itself" speech. Something to calm the waters. The ship is just fine, but everyone's afraid to put their hand on the wheel. Obama could do it. He should do it.
October 10, 2008 11:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
co-sign completely - the only leader in this country right now is on the campaign trial - but once Obama is elected, things should get better.
I'm not as worried about myself - we're in pretty good shape. I'm panicked about people losing their jobs and the bottom really dropping out - not just for investors.
October 10, 2008 11:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wrong. It's all because of Obama's association with Bill Ayers.
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/10/bill_ayres_gutted_your_401k_wh.html
October 10, 2008 11:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
Except for now what we have to fear is fear itself AND Dubya at the helm :-(
October 10, 2008 12:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't forget Rick Noriega, Tena. He needs all the help he can get to close the deal.
October 10, 2008 10:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
In response to the comment about Franken. Sorry bout that.
October 10, 2008 10:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
I know - I wish I could dredge up another little bit of money to donate to Rick.
Maybe I can - I'll look again, but I just scraped up another two-fiddy for Obama the other night.
Ah well, it's the least I can do to try to save what's left of our country and our hopes.
October 10, 2008 11:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
OK, you've got me thinking Noriega has a chance.
$100 for Rick Noriega via ActBlue.
C'mon, Rick! You can take this guy!
October 10, 2008 12:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
They say it's not the individual investor for the most part. But think of the hedge funds and all the leveraging. Any funds which operated on the basis of leveraging are finding the chits coming due as the stocks tank.
For anyone whose investments are on a cash basis, there's not such a problem. Yes, it's scary. But you're not going to be bankrupt if you haven't borrowed on the assets you hold.
October 10, 2008 10:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
The very best thing my husband ever did for us was to pay off every bit of debt we had - he paid off our house in Dallas early - we paid that mortgage off two years ago. We have no debt.
That's the best thing he ever did for us. God I'm so grateful.
October 10, 2008 11:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's a lot more than just what the surface shows.
It's the Hedge funds, their little models didn't have this fly in their programs. It's 60 Trillion dollars of Credit default swaps ( A way to get around insurance regulations ) that are worthless. It's Baby Boomers bailing out of the mutual funds, that's why the sell-off comes in the last hour everyday. The fund managers wait all day to see if they can hit an up tick, but have to sell in the last hour, because their customers are getting out.
October 10, 2008 10:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hmmm. I was thinking now might be a good time to buy some way-out-of-the-money call options. Nothing serious; less, in fact, than I've enjoyed giving to Big Al.
If I understand what you and ThP are saying, it might be best to wait 'til the end of the trading day. Thanks for the tip!
October 10, 2008 10:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
Gosh darn it people like him!
October 10, 2008 10:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
I wish they'd suspend trading.
This is scaring the shit out of me.
October 10, 2008 10:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
I figure another week or so to clear out all the suckers, then it's time to buy. But patience is the watchword.
I once knew a guy who was a commodities trader. Those guys have nerves of steel. He once told me "a bear can make money and a bull can make money, but a pig never makes money". Don't get greedy.
October 10, 2008 10:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
Patience is it - I agree and every morning my husband tells me the same thing -it will be alright, we're sitting on what is invested because if we panicked and sold off we'd be ruined.
We never were invested for short term gain - this is our retirement.
I know it will be alright but in the meantime this is not a situation that is calculated to make anyone feel good. Sheeeit.
Can we please just hold the election?
October 10, 2008 11:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
At least suspend it while Bush is talking. Bush or Paulson open their mouth and the Dow drops 100.
October 10, 2008 10:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
A Bush speech is a great way to save energy. As soon as he starts talking, millions of radios across the country are switched off.
October 10, 2008 12:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
I so agree. Here in the midwest people are very proud of civility in public life. And the mcShame Slime machine feels like a manure spreader!
October 10, 2008 10:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
IT's disgusting.
People who aren't insane and going to those rallies have to be utterly disgusted. This is unAmerican in my opinion.
October 10, 2008 11:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
I was one of Franken doubters. But I was in the debate in Rochester and in person is totally different than was his public persona was, I guess, people like me, get to know him and like him. On the other hand, you see Coleman and you see a sleazy guy. He claims that "he gets things done", but immediatly it comes the question in your mind: How you get it done? Even republicans do not trust him that much.
October 10, 2008 10:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
I also did not think Franken would be as strong as he has turned out to be. (I still like Nelson-Pallmeyer and hope he runs again, although for what office?). I think Franken's ad campaign has been really great, not really a wrong note throughout. And when the Republicans got vicious, Franken fought back, tit for tat. I think the public likes a fighter. I know I liked it. Honestly, I was surprised the viciously negative Republican campaign which in its size and venom has been overwhelming did not work (I was also surprised in 2006 that Kennedy did not run stronger against Klobuchar). It is still hard for me, after 2004, to believe the voting public will actually sift through the barrage of sound bites and make reasonable decisions.
October 10, 2008 10:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm loving this because I was not convinced that Al was taking this seriously but obviously I was wrong and thank heaven!
October 10, 2008 11:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
I had the pleasure of watching Book TV on the day that Al, and Bill had Molly Ivins as their moderator
in L.A. and Al was pluggin' Lies and the Lyn' Liars.
Wow was that good TV. Molly kept her head down that day, one of the few times I ever saw her do that.
October 10, 2008 10:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
I know exactly what you mean about seeing Franken in person (that's why I wrote my comment above). I got a chance to hear him speak at the MN State Fair 2 years ago. He really connected with the people there and kept a Minnesota sensibility in his tone. I'm looking forward to hearing more of his debates.
BTW, I'm completely jealous that you got to go to the debate!
October 10, 2008 2:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
The negative ads from Coleman, the RNC and the RNSC are coming so fast and so furiously that you sometimes get three attack ads in a row these days. It's really amazing how hard they're working to defeat Franken. But I think they've overplayed their hand. The negativity and the lies are starting to piss people off. And Franken's latest ad really makes a mockery of their whole strategy.
If Franken pulls this off, the Senate is gonna be the most entertaining show in town.
October 10, 2008 10:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
If Al and Bernie Sanders put together a team act, it could put Stewart and Colbert outta business.
October 10, 2008 11:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
coleman's press conference today: coleman is taking down his negative ads because... of the economy.
still haven't seen if he took any questions about who buys his suits...
October 10, 2008 2:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ah Crap! Here I was hoping that he'd pull a McCain and suspend his campain...oh well.
October 10, 2008 2:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Brad DeLong put it right. The Republican Party needs to be destroyed, plowed under and the furrows sown with salt.
I'm sure the Libertarians and Constitutionalists will be only too happy to fill the vacuum with a conservative party that actually believes in democracy.
October 10, 2008 10:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
Rec'd. (Sort of a mini-sub-recommendation, which doesn't really count.)
October 10, 2008 11:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
I hope so - we need an opposition party. It's not a good thing for Democrats to try to run everything totally unopposed. It leads to abuses on our side.
October 10, 2008 11:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
Early on Franken had trouble because in his work as a comedy writer and as a comedian, he told "bad" jokes. A substantial number of people here in Minnesota felt compelled to distance themselves from a man who might tell a "bad" joke as a Senator. That is "Minnesota nice".
Now, Minnesotans are beginning to step back and look at Norm Coleman. He is a bad joke. No quotation marks needed.
October 10, 2008 11:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
I can't believe Norm Coleman ever got elected in the first place.
This seems like partisan bullshit thing to say, but the Repugs who rode in on Bush's coattails are some of the dumbest, meanest, worst possible people one could put in office.
I remember when half the Democratic judges on the Court of Appeals in Dallas lost their benches in one election and were replaced by Republicans who were without exception the dumbest, worst bunch of judges imaginable.
The worst people in this country rode in on Bush's coattails. Goddamn I hope we get rid of the rest of them this time - we cleared out quite a few in '06.
October 10, 2008 11:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
I love this! Not just the Democrat is ahead, but Al Franken - the man who wrote some of the funniest lines ever spoken on SNL and hung out with Belushi and Ackroyd. I loved his radio show (but regretted the loss of the Liesl) and really hope he gets to the Senate. I may have to get cable just to watch C-Span.
October 10, 2008 11:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
I have met Al, contributed to him, and will do so again. He is going to be an excellent Senator for the Minn. and the U.S.
October 10, 2008 11:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
+1
October 10, 2008 1:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
I listened to almost all of almost every episode of Al's show on Air America. Al is a really good-hearted, smart person who is obsessed with seeking truth. The success of lying liars really got away with him.
His show involved a lot of people, some of whom were sitting on the ready to Google up facts on short notice. It was always a conversation among intellectuals that would sometimes go into a mild rant. He loved needling Rush and O'Reilly, but he had a great circle of outside people he would interview each week, usually about what was going on in the political world. [Josh Marshall was on often.]
For as much as I listened, btw, I would never have referred to Al as foul-mouthed, even before he started thinking seriously about running for office. Rather, he was funny, sometimes overbearing, but always with good principles at heart, if not for humor. But the humor was interlaced with hard concentration on what was happening in the world, reported from all over.
By the time Al decided to run, I had taken him seriously for quite some time, and I was sure that his "public persona" was far from his real personality. He's great with audiences, and he can't help but let a little humor through. He's very quick to pick up on irony, and has a knack for turning it around in a funny, creative way. So, I expected him to win people over as they got to know him better. But he's dead serious about wanting to help lead the country in what he believes to be the right direction, with great inspiration from Wellstone.
October 10, 2008 11:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
great post
October 10, 2008 11:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
Very true. I hope he continues his campaign-ad strategy of talking to the voters and letting them see who he is. Especially with him and Franni together.
It'll be a gas seeing him in the Senate.
October 10, 2008 1:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
We listened to Al's show on AA every day at work for about a year, (until they changed his time slot). I watched a guy who was definitely on the fence about the war really come around during that time. Al reached him with the humour, and then he started listening. Franken will be one of our finest.
BTW, does Noriega really have a shot? We're short of cash, and I may have to leave Obama's end-run to the fat cats, but I'm very encouraged by Franken's recent surge. It's time to sell something.
October 11, 2008 7:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
A Franken win will make me almost as happy as an Obama win. November 4th is looking to be an amazing night--assuming McCain/Palin don't finally incite people to violence.
October 10, 2008 12:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Al winning would be great. He won't go to DC and pussy foot around with the GOP hacks when they're pulling stunts. And being Senator Franken will get in on the tube far more even than Best Selling Author Franken.
Coleman ran a "just good enough" campaign to keep up the distraction and try to run out the clock. Then the economy collapsed, and woke people up that Norm's been full of shit for six years. Once the eyes were open, things like ClothesGate and his voting record and the lying in his campaign became even easier for Al (and the Media) to push Norm on.
To a degree it mirrors the national campaign. If Obama runs strong in Minny, Al could get some nice coat tail help in addition to Norm sinking.
John
October 10, 2008 1:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Coleman's father was caught with a prostitute in St. Paul a couple years ago. Nothing to do with the campaign but it was funny.
C'mon total Democratic takeover!
Funny vid about all the Obama rumor rumors: http://tinyurl.com/6jb7l6
October 10, 2008 1:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Norm Coleman is a complete bag of smelly Shit. I hope Minnesota is smarter then this
October 10, 2008 2:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
I've met Al Franken, and he's not a "foul-mouthed comedian", he's a Harvard-educated policy wonk, and one of the most gracious and intelligent people I've ever met. I've contributed to his campaign, and I'm going to volunteer for him. I urge everyone here to help Al beat Norm Coleman, and regain the Senate seat of Paul Wellstone and Hubert Humphrey.
October 10, 2008 3:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Anyone who's read Al's books knows that he's as smart as he is funny. He's also got guts. His "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them" book was excellent, and one of the first to really take on the right wing media machine. It was very well researched, and it was biting in it's criticisms. Ever since that book, Al Franken has been one of my heroes. He's the only politician besides Barack Obama I've given money to this year. Not because there aren't plenty of other deserving politicians, it's just that it's so important to elect Obama, and I don't have a lot of money.
October 10, 2008 5:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Also, I'd like to thank TheraP and others on TPM, as well as my son. Thanks to you all, I've got my first avatar. It may be hard to tell, but that pig with lipstick is going down the drain, with McCain.
October 10, 2008 6:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Eric,
I'd like to see some references to back up your oblique assertion that Franken is "a foul-mouthed comedian."
I've been watching and listening to him since the late 70's, and the public persona he's cultivated over the last 30 years is not one of being "foul-mouthed."
He's no Richard Prior or Lenny Bruce... or for that matter Chris Rock.
-S
October 10, 2008 9:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
not only do people really like him
he's damm smart, too. And he has the right answers.
I appreciate the people of Minnesota getting to know him.
October 10, 2008 9:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's good to see Franken is gaining in the polls. I find this race very interesting. You have the Bush effect on Coleman, the economy, and Fraken in a state that elected Jesse Ventura for God's sake!
Anyway,
I wrote an article on this senate race at demockracy.com:
http://demockracy.com/senate-spotlight-minnesota/
Senate Spotlight:
Minnesota
October 11, 2008 12:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Nice to see Norm the Weathervane finally going down. While he fit in well with the rest of the Rethugs, he has always been more of a carpetbagger who jumped on the gravy train, when he switched from D to R. (He wasn't much of a D either)
Like most Rs, he looks nice and sharp on teevee (with those paid-for suits), but the more people get to know him, the more they see the slime oozing from his pores. Now, it's more like flop sweat!
October 11, 2008 11:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
By now, even the Republican fools know that their Party has sold us all out to the big corporations and has sucessfully broke the bank as they walk out of the door caring billions of tax payers dollars.
October 11, 2008 12:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Allow me to nitpick. On the front page headline, there's "On Route." The expression is, "En Route."
October 11, 2008 2:30 PM | Reply | Permalink