A Day in the Senate - Like No Other
It was history in the making with Senators being sworn in along with several oddities.
Vice-President elect Joe Biden was sworn in as the Senator from Delaware. Why? This is Joe’s only income, he must need the money and cannot afford the break between Senator and Vice-President.
Roland Burris, Governor Blagojevich appointed Democratic Senator from Illinois replacing Barack Obama, was turned away by the Senate. The Senate’s Democratic leaders unceremoniously blocked him from entering the chamber. Is this a case of Democrats consuming their own?
And the winner from Minnesota is - Al Franken!? This is the best that Minnesota has to offer? It is an absolute travesty. Thanks a lot citizens from Minnesota. As if there isn’t enough problems in Washington you have to send an incompetent clown to occupy a prestigious Senatorial seat. Norm Coleman vacated his office and vows to appeal the latest vote count which temporarily prevents Franken from taking office. The “Great” Harry Reid told Coleman to concede, how about after due process has been carried out Harry. Senator Reid was not so quick to have Franken concede when he was behind in the votes. This is a case where America would be better off with a vacated seat than a seated Al Franken. At least when he was host of Air America we could turn him off.
The new year is off to an interesting start and 2009 is bound to be a year of “change” as promised by Barack Obama.
