Residual Forces

There’s not much to be excited about if you love America and our prosperity from the DFL US Senate Debate. Well, sure according to the Strib there were some differences between the 4 candidates, but I think that will help the frontrunners. You see, the room seemed to be filled with nutters and there was even one or 2 on stage.

Nelson-Pallmeyer said, “What frustrates me is Democrats in Washington are not standing up and saying, ‘Over my dead body — another war.’” He said Iran isn’t a threat to any interest of the United States

[speechless]

Regarding alternative fuels, Nelson-Pallmeyer wants a goal of reducing fossil fuel dependence at least 80 percent within 10 years. Ciresi said that would create more unemployment and poverty. He wants tax incentives for alternative energy.

Cohen agreed with the incentives but disagreed with the Nelson-Pallmeyer timetable. Cohen envisioned 30 years to reduce U.S. fossil fuel use by 80 percent.

Here’s the sad thing, no not that Franken and Ciresi may have been the most intellectually mature people in the room, but that the crowd loved this crazy fringe stuff.

On military spending, Cohen called for a Department of Peace and a 25 percent cut in the military budget. Nelson-Pallmeyer wants to cut more. “There are no military solutions to poverty, hunger and bridges falling down,” he said.

It is truly amazing that this is the caliber of candidates that the DFL brings to the stage. Actually it isn’t. This is the type of crap their base believes. Sooner or later the voting public will see just what will happen if these freaks get power.

The DFL-friendly crowd hissed and booed only once — when Ciresi and Franken talked favorably about nuclear power as a viable alternative fuel source.

It will be an end to America as we know it if these types of people get to control our future. Al Qaida won’t need to knock us back to the stone age, the leftist that control the DFL will do it for us.

Oh yeah, Franken once again used the whole ‘it was satire’ line to dig his way out of his politically calculated past.

“Al, you supported the war at the outset,” Ciresi said. “I believe it’s essential that we get U.S. senators who don’t act” out of fear.

Franken responded that he wasn’t acting out of fear but that he believed no president would lie the country into war. He said that when the war began he was writing his book “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.”

But Ciresi persisted, pulling out a piece of paper with a quote from that book in which Franken said he was “terrified” by the imminent threat and the visuals of weapons of mass destruction.

Franken responded that the line was satire, poking at the fear the Bush administration peddled. But Franken said he regrets not publicly speaking out against the war earlier, as Nelson-Pallmeyer did.

Yeah, he’s working that line pretty hard, and pretty soon no one will know what was satire and what wasn’t.

(ahem) But that still won’t get Norm Coleman reelected!