Thursday, 2 July 2009

Comedian joins the Senate to give a filibuster proof majority

Al Franken, writer and actor of Saturday Night Live, was eventually declared the winner of the Minnesota Senate race by the state Supreme Court after over 7 months of legal wrangling and vote counting. See the CNN report below. However, it might not be the blessing Obama hopes for, the last President to have a filibuster proof majority was Jimmy Carter in 1979 and things did not go too well for him...

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