WASHINGTON (CNN) - Senator-elect Al Franken will meet with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and be sworn in Tuesday, according to Reid's office.
Franken has been assigned suite 320 in the Hart Senate Office Building, the same office used by former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman, who conceded the race earlier this week.
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An idiot to join an idiot President. The democrat political I.Q. levels just fell another 20%.
R.I.P. America.
Maybe Jerry Seinfeld should run for Senator in New York...The Democratic Party is LITERALLY A JOKE now...
Here comes the clowns – but he is probably no better or worse than any of them – none do what they say – only what is best for themselves!
I would love to see the look on O'Reilly's fat face when this happens. Five years ago, both O'Reilly and Franken were just a couple of guys with opinions. Today they're both still guys with opinions, except now SENATOR Franken's opinion actually shapes policy, while all O'Reilly's opinion does is get people killed.
al franken should be given a drug test before taking office. the same goes for you poeple at cnn!!!!
He is trying to immitate BO's look.....
I'ts about time. Congratulations.
"An idiot to join an idiot President. The democrat political I.Q. levels just fell another 20%."
They both have degrees from Harvard. Where's your degree from?
one less GOP.... let's keep it going
Wasn't Sonny Bono a Republican Senator? Same with the guy who played Gopher on Love Boat. I mean when Bedtime for Bonzo and the Terminator can be governors and presidents, I really think a guy who devoted his career to political humor is much more qualified. And dog gone it people like him.
I have to watch O'Reilly Factor on Tuesday night to watch Bil'O froth at the mouth.
HA HA HA....Congrats Democrats on electing a CLOWN......wait I mean stealing the seat in the courts.....yep same thing though right .
Thanks for your service Al Franken – i know you're gonna be great!
I *wish* his election meant a Democratic supermajority, but remember these are democrats – unlike Republicans they think for themselves.
Wondering what O'Reilly has to do with the stupidity of the people of Minnesota. But after Jesse Ventura?????????Go figure!
I just love the sound of 'Senator Franken'. Just kinda rolls off the lips don't it.
RIP / GOP
Hey Phoenix 86.
That would make the IQ negative 6. About 13 points higher than Obama's
I wouldn't have voted for you, but best of luck Senator Franken! Do whats best for the country and your state, NOT for anyone else. Everyone gets a fair shot.
more republicans just calling people names
i guess they still don't have any valid, factual things to say so they resort to name-calling.
Yes, because of course most people educated at Harvard are idiots. Good catch!
peter chernovetz gee what a sore loser you are. Look if forner Senator Coleman was so great he would of won this election in a land slide.
I will agree to this point I think all of the GOP in Congress should take a drug test.
Really the GOP a party of no and no answers to the mess they put this conutry in.
Obama health czar directed firms in trouble
DeParle made millions from companies under federal investigation
Article from MSNBC.
@phoenix 86
I suppose you think George W. Bush was the greatest president of all time and an intellectual marvel!!!!
I've got news for you, just because you disagree with someone, doesn't make them an idiot.
Congratulations Al!! The Repubs tried to steal another election, but this time it didn't work. Just follow the wishes of the people of MN and you will be just fine.
Yeah and Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman are real intellectual giants! Franken has a math degree from Harvard and is likely to bring a great deal of fresh ideas to the Senate. I find it hilarious that people like phoenix86 think you have an idiot for a president. No you HAD an idiot for a president and he was a complete failure and his policies and actions hurt millions and millions of people.
About time!!
Now forward to good and better things.
Cowboy in West Texas July 2nd, 2009 4:13 pm ET
Here comes the clowns – but he is probably no better or worse than any of them – none do what they say – only what is best for themselves!
David July 2nd, 2009 4:12 pm ET
Maybe Jerry Seinfeld should run for Senator in New York…The Democratic Party is LITERALLY A JOKE now…
Kevin in Ohio July 2nd, 2009 4:12 pm ET
R.I.P. America.
phoenix86 July 2nd, 2009 4:10 pm ET
An idiot to join an idiot President. The democrat political I.Q. levels just fell another 20%.
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yikes! republicans trashing al franken for being a comedian. what about the republicans looking at b-moviestar gary sinise as a potential contender? what about president reagan? or former football star jack kemp?
oh, i get it. if your republican it's alright to work in the biz and then run for public office . . . but if your liberal it's another nail in the coffin for america.
"Wondering what O'Reilly has to do with the stupidity of the people of Minnesota. "
O'Reilly bashes Franken on an almost daily basis.
Congrats Mr Franken, The GOP haters will demonize you, but the joke is on them. The republicans will lose even more senate and house seats in '10 and '12.
Americans are sick and tired of the republicans negative and hateful politics that add nothing of value to america's economic plight.
It is really wierd that the GOP still doesn't get it. So they will continue to lose until they repent for thier nasty ways and basing thier political philsophy on a lie.
only time will tell but thinking that franken was a huge mistake. hope it doesn't end up to be true, him being a huge mistake.
@ "Once You Vote Black" – WTH are you talking about? You are just rambling about nothing. Slow down on those medications that make you hallucinate! BTW, if you make fun of someone's name, please spell it correctly! HUSSEIN is the correct spelling of Obama's middle name and I LOVE IT!
Finally Al Franken will no doubt be the best representation Minnesota has ever had. Americans everywhere can be proud to have such a fine outstanding statesman such as Mr. Franken. A man who cares about the challenges the everyday working class American people have to face. He understands health care is important to the big drug companies and insurance companies, and he knows the kind of payment plans they intend on keeping on the sick and needy. Thank you Al for being willing to serve your country. It is great to know another Democrate has kept another republican in the place all of them belong. ( out of office )
@Go Al! July 2nd, 2009 4:23 pm ET
I *wish* his election meant a Democratic supermajority, but remember these are democrats – unlike Republicans they think for themselves.
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Cute, wrong but cute! Ask Mary Landrieu what happens to democrats who think for themselves! Thank you!
Say what you want, but he graduated cum laude from Harvard with a degee in political science. I'd say he's more educated than half the people working in Congress.
Im not saying anything about Al Franken that is bad, all I am saying is that I want George Lopez to run for Senator and if liberals don't elect him, then you are horrible racist....
Great, another idiot in the Senate.
Tax and Spend, Tax and Spend, Tax and Spend
With more Democrats and fewer Republicans in the Senate we'll finally get good legislation like the CARD (Credit Card Accountability Responsibility & Disclosure) Act, which stops predatory and abusive lending practices, and maybe, just maybe, we'll get something close to the House’s Waxman-Markey Bill, which proposes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 17% by 2020 and 83% by 2050 from 2005 levels.
We're counting on you Senator Franken!
@ alpha_nu_916
Say what you will about Reagan and the rest of the celebrity politicians, but Jack Kemp was competent and capable regardless of how you feel about his politics.
Al Franken has won
Doggone it, people like him
Only eight months late.
I hear you phoenix86. Franken's also a crazed liberal marxist who wants to help Obama implement his socialist communist polices, which will destroy America as we know it. Let me go protect my six-shooter before Obama sends one of them liberal police to my house to get it.
And phoenix86, Obama is always smiling. Why does he do that? Where's his birth certificate? What's he hiding? Where's Franken's birth certificate? Our leader Rush Limbaugh will answer those questions for us.
Another clown joins the circus. Just what we need....another dumbocrat.
Hey dumbocrats......Your stimulus has been a 2 trillion dollar FAILURE just like your president. By the way, on inauguration day the Dow Jones closed at 8279.63. Today it closed at 8280.74. Way to go, Barry, your 2 TRILLION dollars spent bought us 1.11 points.
Oh my god. Wow their is a term that Frankobama doesn't know because he is without morals. Just read one of his books.
Now watch the Dem. destroy the constitution now. It's going to be Cap and Tax time. It's going to be the CZAR of fast food just kidding I think.
To everyone who thinks Al Franken is a clown, try reading his books, listening to his political analysis and take a gander at his policy statements.
He's an extremely bright, well-informed long-time policy wonk who also just happens to have a sense of humor.
I'm very happy the Supreme Court of Minnesota finally put an end to the ridiculous, whiny Coleman. Go get 'em, Al!
what a joke!
To Proud Member of Party of No.
As long as you are comparing the performance of the DJIA to term in office, please look at the Dow when George W entered office and where it was EIGHT years later. And also report on the BILLIONS of dollars in deficits that HE ran up. If you want to bring the performance of the market into the debate, do some homework on market performance under Republican Administrations vs Democratic Administrations, and please get back to us with the real results.
What a joke. Unfortunately not a funny one.
Dear GOP = 21 century dodo:
Harvard MBA (1990). Satisfied?
maybe Frankfurter and Obozo can get together abd write jokes...sadly, the joke is on the country..................I see where the market is down 200+ today, and North Korea is firing missles.....anyone laughing??
by the way, are those U S girls still locked up in North Korea?? thank you Obozo
He looks like he should be a comedian and not a senator.
Right on time. Joe should be back by then to swear you in Sen.-Elect Franken.
Well Bridget, my point is that they call Obama all of these things but he still beat them at there own game. So when they put him down they are saying that there political ability was not able to defeat a "what have you". I like Obama, and I do not see why he must be all of these bad names they call him just because they are in the GOP.
Hey, "Idiot Pelosi" - which is more fiscally sound/Conservative; tax and spend, or don't tax and spend even more? Republicans can't take the high ground on fiscal responsibility - from Reagan through W, they have refused to cut spending. "W" put through the first bail-out. You think if McCain won, there would have been no stimulus? Bull – there would have been, along with a tax cut. The fact that it would be non-sensical economically is irrelevant; cut taxes and increase spending is what Joe Six Pack wants.
Hahaha Squirm republicans, squirm. Have a nice day!
Another Democrat in the Senate. That is so great. No matter how hard the g.o.p. works to ruin this Great Country the USA is going to come back stronger than ever. Ignore the losers, be a winner.
@ phoenix86
The IQ of The President and Mr. Franken is more than the entire GOP's.
Ugh Republicans.
A clown? Do any of you know anything about Franken or Minnesota? He graduated from Harvard....not the bottom of his class like McCain did.
I really don't see how the Democratic party is the joke....the Repubs lost the election.......big time...and your "stars" are dropping like flies due to infidelity and going AWOL. And Schwarzenegger? Ensign? PALIN? How are those not clowns?
"by the way, are those U S girls still locked up in North Korea?? thank you Obozo"
Right...should we go kick their butts? China'd be real thrilled at that.
The only way ot get them back would be to negotiate, like we've done every time for the last 15 years or so with North Korea. And then you'd attack him for caving in to a dictator.
Seriously, you're never going to be happy.
Once you vote black.
Your landslide was 48% to 52%. Not much of a landslide. McCane won over 2/3 of the states. Not much of a landslide. McCane had over 65% of the vote of land owners. Not much of a landslide. AND, I DONT CARE IF OBAMA IS BLACK, WHITE, YELLOW OR GREEN...HE'S AN IDIOT.
Will from MN
I'd take a midshipman from anywhere in his class over a Harvard grad any day. I am from Cambridge and took several courses at Harvard. They weren't hard, and I got my best grades there. By contrast, I don't think I would have lasted a week at a Service Academy. And I doubt you would either.
What a sad day for Minnesota and the USA
He ought to write a book on how to steal an election. It would be the first non comedic work he has done.
Dear Democrats:
Please give me your opinions on the time frame in which President Obama can start to take responsibility for economic conditions, instead of blaming the previous administration. It's obviously not six months, judging by the comments here. A year? Two years? Four? Whenever things get better? Please let me know, thanks.
Steve (the real one) July 2nd, 2009 4:36 pm ET
Cute, wrong but cute! Ask Mary Landrieu what happens to democrats who think for themselves! Thank you!
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Steve, Landrieu wasn't thinking for herself, she was thinking for her favorite donors. Big difference.
Dutch,
I've read your posts. Snark isn't debate. You're an idiot in the classic sense of the word.
If you want a debate, name the time and place you want your rhetorical smackdown to be (keep it to the east coast-some of us wage slaves have been pressed into service to pay for your welfare state).
I'll take Franken any day over the emotionally unbalanced Sanford!!
Speaking of Harvard, do you know how many Harvard grads it takes to change a lightbulb?
Just one. He grabs on to it and lets the world revolve around him.
Hope College, Class of 1985.
Well done, Al!!!!
Finally the person who won the Minnesota election will be working.
GOP folks are like chinese water torture – drip drip drip drip
Hate, division, negativity, no plans, no suggestions, no numbers in budget recommendations – drip drip drip drip
You know its a good thing if the republicans can't stand it.
Good luck Al. I'm pulling for you.
@ nom deplume:
So you would vote for a "midshipman" or McCain who graduated 894 of 899, or the bottom 0.5% of his class, over a Harvard graduate like Obama and Franken? And you wonder why your party is doing so badly?
This is a hard core Dem Liberal who will back Obama and his Socialist ideas all the way. But....the Dems don't have nor ever will have as long as Barry is president a 60 vote fool-proof filibuster wrecking ball. It's because BO is so far left that the Dem Moderate and Conservative members of the Senate will not side with him on matters of universal health care and energy. So who cares about Franken, he's Minnesota's embarrassment which hopefully they'll fix in 2014.
Just in time for the Fourth of July party.The American people win and the anti Americans lose.
What a sad day for the Minnesota, the country and the world. We need leadership and we get a hate spewing left wing idiot.
Hey Al, I held my nose and voted for you because the other two running were the real clowns (especially Coleman). I had my doubts about you due to lack of experience and your past tendency to act like a GOPer when it came to divisiveness, but I am taking you at your word that you are humbled. I think you can be a great senator for us if you lose the attitude and reach out to those reasonable folks farther to the right on the spectrum. Here's hoping you'll make us proud!
I read these liberal comments and am amazed at what patsies liberals really are. Must be psychological.
Bring back the Elephants, we're tired of the clowns
cnn is right gop platform,am done watching your network .your just terrible,and millions more are doing the same, your network has turn into joe the plummer news, stupid. the bill bennett piece did it for me, ricardo sanchez, lou dobbs ,dana bash, cambell brown,john roberts,are all right wing promoters. bill bennett is a racist,thats it am done watching you on cable, but i will monitor your lies ,on the internet and still let you know my complants. you have destroyed your network yout not valid.
If it is possible for the Democrats to be embarassed by a fellow Dem, this guy should do it. He makes stupid people look smart. I love how some Dems are claiming he is smart by pointing out he graduated from Harvard. Funny how these same Dems did not say Bush is smart because he graduated from Yale.