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Looks like the Franken campaign is going to be touring the state again and the media advisory indicates that the topic is my favorite one — the topic that I feel is most pivotal in this race: when Norm Coleman was trusted as a Freshman Senator with the powerful role of the Chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee of Investigations, one of the most powerful positions in the Senate, he completely failed our country.

Coleman failed our state. He failed our troops. He failed in fighting fraud, he failed in fighting waste and he failed in fighting abuse. He allowed for blatant war profiteering, even by some that contributed to Coleman. He didn’t investigate the billions lost in Iraq, even after it was publicly reported. There’s a lot more. As Garrison Keillor put it:

The simple truth is that, while more than 4,000 Americans gave their lives in the war in Iraq, the war was an enormous financial opportunity for neocons and their friends, and Sen. Coleman was a passive observer of one of the biggest heists in history. The cynicism is staggering to the normal person. He was the cop who busted the hot dog vendor for obstructing the sidewalk while the McGurks were cleaning out the bank. This is no joke. A crook is walking around looking for votes. And the truth is marching on.

More details on this as they’re released today but the Coleman campaign has to be sweating bullets because there’s no running away from the facts.

How is the Coleman campaign going to respond? As owning up to the truth is political suicide for Coleman, their only option is to lie and distract. Will they say that Norm Coleman’s job wasn’t actually Norm Coleman’s job? Will they say that they actually investigated when they didn’t? Will Norm Coleman say there’s nothing wrong even in the light of billions wasted? Will they say it’s just a “negative attack”? Will Norm Coleman say that he did fight against fraud even though he did nothing regarding the fraud in Iraq? Will they talk about the UN’s Oil-for-Food program when it was actually a distraction from the real problem? Will they try to distract by arguing about a particular wording or figure that is inconsequential to the big picture? Will they try to paint Franken negatively when Coleman lacked the temperament to stand up for his country instead of his friends that put him in his seat?

Norm Coleman, bought out by the Bush White House even before he was elected, was Bush and Cheney’s trusted Chair of the PSI from 2003-2006 when the Republicans controlled the Senate.

In my opinion, this is a lot worse than Coleman going on the defensive on his record on Medicare — which he had to lie about.

Place your bets. As the media tries to get a Coleman response out of this one, who knows what Team Coleman will say this time.

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