Garrison Keillor’s has a sharp critique on Sarah Palin and Norm Coleman in today’s Star Tribune on page A13 as well as in Salon. While the whole piece is great, I can’t reprint the entire thing here. An excerpt:
From 2003 to 2006, Coleman was chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which is responsible for investigating, among other things, “fraud, waste, and abuse in government contracting,” and on his watch, the subcommittee held no hearings on the disappearance of billions of tax dollars into “reconstruction projects” in Iraq that didn’t seem to reconstruct anything whatsoever. Bundles of newly minted $100 bills on pallets in Baghdad that simply vanished. No-bid contracts lavished on people with connections. What may be the biggest case of war profiteering in the history of buzzardry.
The last paragraph really sums things up.
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.
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Yep. Spot on.
Which is why I’ve been callin’ ol’ Smokescreen “Norm ‘Smokescreen’ Coleman, R=Lapdog” for quite a while now.
he may have been passive, but he definitely benefitted as well. What a lapdog crook, can’t wait to see him go!
Hello: Zach and TwoPuttTommy -You both are so right, but do you know we can do something about your wishes almost immediately!
If you can not wait to see Norm Coleman go!, Then it is NOW YOUR DAY TO GET OUT THE VOTE TO REMOVE NORM COLEMAN FROM THE U.S. SENATE next Tuesdays in the GOP Primary on Sept. 8, 2008 by voting for Jack Shepard AS JUST A TOOL IN THE GOP PRIMARY TO REMOVE NORM COLEMAN ALMOST IMMEDIATELY FROM THE SENATE.
Which would guarantee that Norm Coleman’s name would not even be on the Minnesota General Election Ballot on Nov. 4, 2008.
Then and only then will the majority of Minnesotan’s who are unhappy with the direct Washington was taking can be sure that they do not get Norm Coleman easily re-elected in a 3 way General election on Nov. 4, 2008 race with Al Franken and Dean Barkley like Larry Jacobs, says, “Franken and Barkley will Split the vote of the Majority voters upset with Washington, making if hard for Franken to win
If Norm Coleman is not removed in the Sept. 9, 2008 GOP Primary by YOU GETTING THE VOTE OUT FOR TO VOTE FOR Jack Shepard just as a tool to remove Norm Coleman almost immediately and once AND FOR ALL TIMES from the U.S. Senate.
If you do not vote in the Primary to remove Norm Coleman on Sept. 9, 2008 Then in the 3 way General election in Nov. 4, 2008 you will get Norm Coleman for another 6 more years. Who will continue to work and be supported by mostly special interest groups.
This is really the only guaranteed immediate way to eliminate Norm Coleman from the U.S. Senate. My web site: is http://www.jackshepardforsenate.com
Being I do not have $15,000,000 in donation mostly from Big Business etc. I most rely on you the people of Minnesota who are unhappy with Norm Coleman’s horrific voting record in the Senate and the Fact that this year he was part of the record breaking 90 filibustered U.S. Senate the most ever in history,. That is why no major issue was passed in the last 2 years, in Sen. Norm “filibuster” Coleman’s Senate.
You and I are calling for the removal of Sen. Norm Coleman and there is only in place and the sooner the better. It is to remove Norm Coleman from the U.S. Senate next Tuesdays GOP Primary on Sept. 8, 2008 by voting for Jack Shepard only to remove Norm Coleman for ever!