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Monday, March 30, 2009

GOP: Gangsters On Parade

[via TPM]
The Minnesota election dispute has now lasted for almost five months, with the seat vacant for the last three of them -- but that might just be the beginning, with NRSC chairman John Cornyn telling the Politico that it could take "years" to resolve.

Cornyn... is promising Republican resistance to any potential effort to seat Al Franken while Norm Coleman continues to challenge the result. And Cornyn is clear that this means Franken can't be certified the winner if Coleman takes it [next] to the federal courts, not just [conceding] at the state level...

TPM asked DSCC communications director Eric Schultz for comment. "Republicans have made it clear they will hold this Senate seat hostage in order to pursue their political agenda -- at the hefty expense of Minnesota having full representation in Congress," said Schultz. "We're all awaiting the three-judge panel to return its verdict, and once they do, we will have yet another confirmation that Al Franken won the election -- and hopefully he can get to Washington to do the job he was elected to do."

America's Republican Party, ladies and gentlemen, strong-arm threats and hostage-taking, in addition to the torture, war-mongering, looting of infrastructure, crony capitalism, and war-profiteering they've indulged in so gleefully for fourteen years: Nothing But Gangsters.

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