Senator Doofus: What his 60th vote really means
July 1st, 2009 by Rightwing Czar at 12:44 amIn Franken’s victory speech yesterday he made a comment about how he isn’t the “60th” Democrat but the “2nd Minnesota Senator.” That was apparently the first joke Senator Doofus has made in two years.
Franken isn’t just a Democrat and he isn’t just a liberal. The guy is a screaming nutcase who is as radical as they come. CNN gives us a quick rundown on his positions on some major issues which include support for a single-payer health care system and “comprehensive immigration reform.”
In reality, Franken as the 60th vote (instead of say, the 59th vote) is pretty insignificant – especially compared to what cable news will make of it. Republicans controlled the wheels of the government for most of the eight years Bush was in office with majorities much smaller than what the Democrats have in the Senate right now.
The talk of this 60th vote to protect against the filibuster was just Harry Reid’s way of stalling from having to implement every whim and desire of the loony left. Much of the Democrats agenda – a second stimulus, mass amnesty to illegal aliens, health care reform that will cost trillions, and cap and tax – are too extreme for the American public and not what they bargained for in November when they elected a party promising bipartisanship and low taxes. To his credit, Reid understands this and hasn’t been making extraordinarily drastic moves like we’d see if the crew at dKos were in charge.
As much as it just sucks that someone like Al Franken will actually be given the honor of being called Senator, we aren’t in any worse shape today than we were last week.
To be fair, though, last week we were in pretty bad shape.