The election you refer to was a statistical tie. Nobody "clearly lost". And on the subject of statistics, care should be taken when handling terms like "statistical impossibility".

That's all. I just wanted to hit on the superficial merits of your post (or lack thereof). I'll leave it to someone else to point out that every country spies on every other country, one study does not constitute a New Deal Breaker, and Al Franken is simply trying to prevent his opponent from stealing an election.

That was great!

BTW - why do right wingers even want to live in America? They want us to behave like the countries we fight. Joe McCarthy's approach to destroying private citizens and the re-writing of history seem much more at home in the USSR. Their insistence on putting religion into government and their pro-torture stance puts them on equal footing with the "Islamofacists." There are so many other examples - it's really strange....

Hey calligraph - is that you? Or is there someone else with your great sense of humor?

Talk trash about my country? Because I like a president that was elected to four terms? Because a Nobel prize-winning economist's proofs makes more sense to me than the ones you've vested in? Because I like a strong middle class (check out the rise of the middle class during FDR) instead of the gilded age (check out the division of classes during the Bush Administration)? Yep - that's funny.

Or, is it just that I don't like Joseph McCarthy whose methods were reprehensible and un-American? Close on that one - but maybe so sad it's funny.

Since America was started by a bunch of liberals, it's pretty natural we would feel at home under our Constitution. That's just fact.

Oh - and, btw - this clip - trashing their country??? That would be Coulter talking about an American president, Franken talking about one of the most vile men that ever walked the planet. Again, I'm not sure I get the joke here.

"As for the 'statistical tie' - nonsense. Coleman won the election. Franken challenged, and the board immediately started trying to hand the election to Franken."

Err, nonsense right back at you. Franken didn't challenge anything. The recount was automatic and mandated by state law. All Franken did was decline to concede.

Instead of projecting what the liberals would have done about 9/11 let us look at what Bush and the Neocons actually did. First about six months before the attack Bush was given a memo titled, "bin Laden determined to strike in the US" look up the actual title it is even more damning. Second, Bush and the Neocons did nothing until after the second plane kamakazeed the twin towers. Third, about two months after the attacks Bush and the Neocons were quoted as saying, " I don't care where bin Laden is". Finally, we invade Iraq who had no involvement with 9/11.

Compare this to Clinton who had captured, tried and executed the bomber of the twin towers under his watch in about nine months.

Kerry wanted to enlist the aide of our allies (who were willing) to train Iraqi forces on ally soil then reinsert them into Iraq. This would have taken far less than five years and saved countless lives.

I think I left out a small detail about Bush and the Neocons invading a country that had nothing to do with 9/11