Franken awarded victory in Minnesota

...giving the Dems a filibuster-proof bloc in the Senate if they stick together.

I dunno. Is Franken that liberal? :)

Or to put it a better way, are as much as 60 Democrats really all that "liberal"? Didn't both the Senate and the House unanimously pass the recent nonbinding "Iran is the Great Satan" resolution (minus Ron Paul in the House, of course)?

The added problem for politicians thinking and acting on their own is that they will be ostracized by their party if they do not vote the party line. More than one incumbent has lost his job because he failed to vote the line.

I'm still amazed that he won by 312 votes out of over 3 million cast. Definitely not a mandate.

For those of you who don't vote because, "my vote doesn't matter". Take heed!

I've always voted, but last October, I was really moved by a Bob Weir tirade. He said if every Floridian Deadhead had voted, we would never had had Bush as President.

How's that for a small, but effective special interest group!