With Al Franken and Norm Coleman fighting over a Minnesota Senate seat and Senate Democrats battling with Governor Blago over one from Illinois, why not settle for a compromise that would save money for everyone, eliminate one State house (preferably the notoriously corrupt one in Illinois) and reduce the blight of two pointless mid-western Senate seats? The merged entity could be called Illisota or Minnenois.
What’s that? Illinois and Minnesota aren’t neighbors? No problem, just include Iowa in the merger, too. This would have the added advantage of eliminating one more picayune state government (Iowa’s) and dispensing with Iowa’s absurd presidential caucus scam. How different the world would be without the Iowa caucuses!
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Couldn’t we just include vermont and maybe even new york and california. Who cares if they’re not contiguous they all have the same nut cases.
Maybe the Republicans need franken. Can you imagine if they could get him angry in a senate hearing and just see what comes out. It’s a joke and he’s not even a joke, but a porno loving, filthy mouthed pervert. I guess that’s what the dems have been reduced to.
Sounds good to lots of Californians.
Meanwhile, split California, which has way too much influence thanks to its size-population combo. Make San Francisco and environs (Marin County in particular) one state all by itself, then split the Golden State across the middle. Zappo: in one blow we are rid of Feinstein and Boxer. A breathtaking thought.
One of my treasured political memories is seeing the disgusted look Feinstein cast in Boxer’s direction in the 1992 election, when BB’s election was assured. Boxer is not the sharpest tool in the drawer.
When Texas was admitted to the union, it was authorized to form up to five states out of itself. I think it still can. Maybe we can try carving up Texas.
Was it boxers daughter or feinstein’s who married hillary’s brother?
Sounds good to me April.
That the Dems in Minnesota could even nominate, much less elect, Al Franken says volumes about how low that party has fallen.
Note to Kitten: Inland Californians would be delighted to see the coastal counties dropped into the Pacific. Or the Atlantic. Your pick.