Pawlenty: ‘A Few More Months’ to Resolve Franken-Coleman Standoff

Time to start killing republicans en masse.

Too extreme. Neutering with a broken champagne bottle should be sufficient..

the party of 'NO' is, if NOthing, consistent.

NO equal representation in the US congress for MN.

NO ethics, NO class, and

NO clue as to how much additional damage they're doing to their 'brand'.

NO problem, we'll galdly govern for the next 8-12-16 years, thank you.

The simple fact that MN has a Rethuglican as GOV. is only testament that the elections there are rigged. MN has ALWAYS been DFL, waddayatink, minisodans are stoopid, ya?

IF IT WERE A REPUBLICAN….. tim “give me plenty” pawlenty would be tripping over his chubby to sign the paper. This is the partisan BS that will doom the fool as he tries to drag his career forward.

If the situation were reversed and Franken were contesting the race for this long, the RW talking heads would be all over the TV screaming about the Democrats being sore losers and saying Franken should give up, but if it is a Repub behind then its AOK for them to drag it on for months and months..the hypocrisy gets pretty tiring.

When is someone going to say it? These repubs like coleman and the others in the congress that are doing everything thry can to bring down President Obama's administration are trators to the USA. They put their group of thieves ahead of their country. Maybe it's time to start BANISHING people who would destroy it rather than live under an administration they don't control.

Pawlenty is a dangerous assh*le.
Clearly he cares more about partisan politics and his place within the party than about having our state represented fully in Congress.
What a douche!

No one here in Minnesota is surprised by Little Timmy's comments. He wants to run for Prez and has been putting his welfare ahead of the state's since day one. Republicans can't do anything constructive, its not in their nature, if they were builders they wouldn't be Republican, they are destroyers. And they've done a very good job at destroying this country.

YOU people of MN need to do something about the mess you have going there! It's gotten to the THIS IS JUST PLAIN STUPID part.

It is clear that republicans are in the obstructionist mode. They just cannot conceive of the fact that they lost the election. When they have exhausted the State courts, they will appeal to the US Supreme court. And if they lose there, it wouldn't surprise me if they come up with some whacko idea of trying a world court. Basically, they are saying, “We absolutely refuse to accept the will of the voters.” Their strategy is to obstruct and delay. The audacity of republicans who have rigged elections all over the country using these tactics against Franken in Minn., is criminal and should be treated accordingly.

[...] Governor Pawlenty Will Not Certify Franken In Minnesota. Wash. Monthly [...]

Pwlently is taking orders from the fair and balanced Faux news analyst, Karl Roverer

How odd, while Republicans in Alaska are calling for a legally elected Senator to resign because the Bush White House indictment of the-then Republican Senator has been thrown out, Minnesota Republicans are refusing to seat an apparently elected Senator. The Democrats should simply allow Franken to begin participating in Senatorial business up to the point he has to vote.

[...] Governor Tim Pawlenty (R) on MSNBC yesterday: Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) said today that he won’t validate a winner in the long-running [...]

Can a sitting Governor be impeached for obstruction?….Pawlenty should be shown the error of his thought process and held accountable for his partisan politicss……

i dont like how all the comments from the left are so…submissive. You all whine and use sarcasm, but none of you use fighting words. The repugs are the ENEMY. they should be regarded with hatred and contempt. They should be mocked and ridiculed without mercy. The goal is not denigrate their behavior but to denigrate them. To destroy their identity. To gang up on the “other”, and the “other” are the repugs. They are not like us. They are not human. They are less than human. They do not belong. All of us should join together to shut them out. Always try to hurt their feelings. Not that those subhumans even have feelings like real people do. I spit in the face of all repugs…and any lazy, half-ass progressive who doesn't fight and is a drag on the cause.

Another Repug governor more concerned with politics than his state's representation in Congress.
This SHOULD be made a campaign issue.
If the shoe were on the other foot, that certification would have been signed, sealed and delivered.

What is the puzzle here? Is this the Republican take on “fair and balanced”? In January of 2001 Republicans, with the aid of the Supreme Court stopped the legitimate count of votes according to established Florida statutes. In 2009 Republicans want the vote count being conducted according to Minnesota statutes to go on and on and on. Do they know whether they are coming or going?

Whatever happened to the sage advice of Cheif Justice Frankfurter? The courts should not enter the “political thicket”. The embarassing 2001 stopping of the Florida recount which was being conducted according to Florida will forever be etched in history as a partisan political decision. That decision was so shameful that the very same Court issued a codicil to that decision which said this decision applies to this case and only this case. It could not be used as a precedent. It would be amusing to see Americans laugh at the folly of a Supreme Court, who on one hand stopped a recount vote and on the other hand order the vote on another recount to go on until they get it right, that is right on the political spectrum.

What is the puzzle here? Is this the Republican take on “fair and balanced”? In January of 2001 Republicans, with the aid of the Supreme Court stopped the legitimate count of votes according to established Florida statutes. In 2009 Republicans want the vote count being conducted according to Minnesota statutes to go on and on and on. Do they know whether they are coming or going?

Whatever happened to the sage advice of Cheif Justice Frankfurter? The courts should not enter the “political thicket”. The embarassing 2001 stopping of the Florida recount which was being conducted according to Florida will forever be etched in history as a partisan political decision. That decision was so shameful that the very same Court issued a codicil to that decision which said this decision applies to this case and only this case. It could not be used as a precedent. It would be amusing to see Americans laugh at the folly of a Supreme Court, who on one hand stopped a recount vote and on the other hand order the vote on another recount to go on until they get it right, that is right on the political spectrum.

[...] much bull can a governor dish out? P-aw-lenty! Jump to Comments From The Washington Independent: Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) said today that he won’t validate a winner in the long-running [...]

[...] a Republican, has vowed not to certify Franken until Coleman exercises all available legal options (read: the Supreme Court awards him the seat in [...]

[...] a Republican, has vowed not to certify Franken until Coleman exercises all available legal options (read: the Supreme Court awards him the seat in [...]

Tim Pawlenty took an ax
And gave the budget forty whacks,
And when the job was neatly done
He gave another forty-one.

Tim Pawlenty took an ax
And gave the budget forty whacks