the rightwing czar

In 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.

What better way to solve our 12 million “undocumented workers” problem than by taking a population count that says they don’t exist?

The Census is known as the definitive head count that is supposed to reflect the makeup of the country.

But now some Latino leaders want illegal immigrants to boycott the national survey, claiming that being counted — but not represented — isn’t fair.

“It doesn’t make any sense, in some way it is immoral that we are counting 12 million undocumented immigrants who have no benefit at all financially speaking,” said Rev. Miguel Rivera, president of the National Coalition of Latino Clergy & Christian Leaders.

It doesn’t make sense “financially” for them to be counted in the census? Correct me if I’m wrong, but the only financial benefit for anyone being counted in the census is that some federal funds are allocated based on population numbers of different regions. Is Mr. Rivera saying that illegal immigrants who live in cities, go to schools, and drive on roads aren’t going to benefit as much from federal funds as legal immigrants or citizens? In what looney world does that argument make sense?

Rivera’s call for a “boycott” is absurdly hysterical, so let me make sure I understand his position correctly: it is unfair that the federal government has not changed its laws in order to appease the people who broke them, and they should therefore boycott the census and deprive themselves of federal money that they shouldn’t legally be able to take advantage of anyway.

Uh, okay?