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I personally put Al Franken in the Senate

Today is Minnesota Senator Al Franken's Birthday. In honor of that, I'm reposting this historically accurate and important essay, which first appeared on this blog on April 23, 2009 at 3:56PM:
I personally put Al Franken in the Senate
Al Franken is about to be seated as the Junior Senator from Minnesota after a long and costly battle between loser Norm Coleman and Senator Franken. Al won the election by just a few hundred votes, and three of those votes are mine. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110831:20:01:00

What s the matter with us? meanwhile, a deserving report shows 50 billion spent not on protecting our troops, but loss on waste and fraud. in fact fraud the second revenue source beaten only by the illegal drug trade. we re funding both sides of the war as you re troops risk their lives. with billions wasted we could spend nation building at home plus a growing loss of life, why is no one at wavgt having a serious debate about ending america s longest war now? we start with colonel anthony shaffer. he s an afghan war vet that led black ops teams. and joined by ashwin madia. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110831:20:03:00

In 2002 and 2003 and we are winning. we weren t trying to force the afghan people to embrace a government which is corrupt, or push them towards the taliban. we actually were trying to allow the people imagine that they aren t ungonchedder thoorks self-gonched. that should have been or focus. that s what we re seeing. we re seeing the end effects of this idea that we know best, let s give you government, let s let you have everything we have, and they just don t want it. ashwin, what s insane about this as well, you know, we hear talk from the president we re beginning to do the withdrawal, and you have mitt romney and other republicans say you have to listen to the generals, and obama is too far to the left of the generals, but when the dust clears, even with the withdrawal of 30,000 troops that obama has talked about. we ll have more troops on the ground in afghanistan than we had when president obama took office. how can that make sense after ....

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