If you ever have occasion to wonder why you aren't a Repub, intellectually dishonest asswipes like Cornyn invariably provide you with a quick answer.

Senator Cornyn, if I can quote the immortal Albert in The Deer Hunter, "You're so full of shit you're going to float away!

Any voter who followed Minnesota state election law to the letter had a chance to have their vote counted. Coleman had his day in court (several, actually) and failed to prove otherwise; instead, he argued for more lax vote counting. Isn't Cornyn from the party that rallies against voter fraud?

"The message from our side has remained consistent throughout this process: we want this election to resolve itself as quickly, but not at the expense of Minnesota's laws or voters.

So two years is resolving itself quickly? Bush was forced in in mere weeks with Republicans calling for Gore to be a "Statesman" and concede, Franken has waited five months, a complete recount and a trial that only added to his lead. And Cornyn is talking about years before he could be sat.

So Cornyn agrees that there should have been a full recount in Florida in 2000, and that the Supreme Court decision to stop the recount was wrong? And that Al Gore should have kept contesting the election results, instead of stepping aside as he did? I guess Al was a fool for saying:

Now the U.S. Supreme Court has spoken. Let there be no doubt, while I strongly disagree with the court's decision, I accept it. I accept the finality of this outcome which will be ratified next Monday in the Electoral College. And tonight, for the sake of our unity as a people and the strength of our democracy, I offer my concession. I also accept my responsibility, which I will discharge unconditionally, to honor the new President-elect and do everything possible to help him bring Americans together in fulfillment of the great vision that our Declaration of Independence defines and that our Constitution affirms and defends.

I guess Sen. Conryn also disagrees with what Dick Cheney said at the time:

Dick Cheney called today for Vice President Al Gore to concede the presidential election, saying history would regard Mr. Gore ''in a better light if he were to bring this to a close in the very near future.''

Speaking on the NBC News program ''Meet the Press,'' Mr. Cheney also said he believed that the nation was on the verge of a recession and needed the stimulus of a tax cut like the one proposed by the Republicans.

Both statements seemed designed in part to build public pressure in different ways for an end to Mr. Gore's legal challenge of the vote in Florida. In the same interview, Mr. Cheney talked about troubling economic indicators and the importance of a new administration getting to work on them.

The political conflict since the election has eaten up so much of the transition period, he said, that there could be damage to the effectiveness of the next administration.

''Let's get on with it,'' said Mr. Cheney, the Republican vice-presidential candidate.

Every day and in every way, Republicans prove themselves to be hypocritical sons of bitches.

Cornyn is only being his fascist self.

It's so hilarious to see Repub's make accusations of things they are guilty of - The real hypocrites of course are the Repub's.

John you moron you as usual have it all wrong, first of all in 2000 they STOPPED the recount. To compare this with 2000 is at best idiotic & crazy, but that's your thing.

Minnesota is very efficient at running their elections and pretty much everything else, the state has high standards throughout. The election board is made up equally of both parties and they have unanimously certified the election results. Yet as usual someone like Cornyn can whip up something crazy & make it sound legitimate.

I hope though that the people of Minnesota who did not vote, will next time & in the future make more of an effort to do so. I cant really blame ol Norm, if there is any blame it's to those who didnt bother to vote.

Republicans rarely hold a majority in most states, they do however turn out to vote and they are the majority 'voters' so when they win it's usually because non-repub's decide to let them win.

This is what's really sad & this Senate election is a great example of it.

Sen. Cornyn: if the Florida recount had been allowed to proceed, as the Minnesota recount is being allowed to proceed, to its finish, the Democrats would have had, and would to this day have, no reason to complain -- other than if Bush had still won and we'd had the same eight years of crappy leadership, but not about the election itself.

Who'd like to take a bet on if Norm takes exactly 10 days to file his appeal? Someone at today's press conference asked Ginsberg when they'd file. He beat around the bush a bit and would only say they have 10 days. I'm betting on the 10th day, just in case you were wondering about the purpose of all this-you probably weren't.

Methinks "big John" has lost his mind. Again.

What's hypocritical is that the party that claims to believe in federalism, state's rights, and the 10th Amendment, sought federal jurisdiction in 2000 when they didn't like the Florida election result, and are now threatening to do the same thing in Minnesota in order to thwart the will of the voters.

Holy shit, Cornyn is such a disingenuous moron.

Ramsey County, which is one of the most Democratic areas in Minnesota and includes St. Paul, didn't bother to tell absentee voters when there was the lack-of-a-signature on the envelope. They just refused to open those envelopes.

Some suburban districts let absentee voters fix such mistakes.

If this is remedied by letting absentee voters who didn't sign, to sign now, then Al Franken will have an even bigger lead.

This may lead to a power struggle between Cornyn and Harry Reid.

i am still raving mad, disappointed, disturbed, outraged, worried, and incredulous about the 2000 election.
the fact is the voters of florida intended to vote for gore. probably did in fact just barely manage to register more votes for gore. there was never a government sanctioned legal recount of the entire assembly of multi varied ballots from all of florida's many counties. the media analyzed the ballots carefully and determined that in most scenarios of ballot consideration, gore actually won by a narrow margin. this in an election where gore won the popular vote nationally. in an election where bush's brother was the governor of florida. where the official in charge of elections was bush's state campaign manager.
the nation suffered through eight years of a disastrous presidency that began with a stolen election. this is a disgusting chapter of american democracy. unacceptable.
is corny acknowledging this?

the more i think about this, the more i see it as a welcome development. basically there is an acknowledgment by a lockstep, bushie, texan, republican that the 2000 election was stolen.

And Cornyn was on the Texas Supreme court, from what i remember. His race this past year was probably closer than he would have liked but he still held on despite his complete ignorance of our history (but I guess since we had GWB for 8 years and the saying states that winners are the ones who write history then in that case this is simply the same sort of non-sense that all of the GWB people have been trying do as of the last 8 months or so, re-writing their own actions and the history of those actions). It is pretty cowardly but with the MSM focused in on a 24 hour news cycle their is very little to lose, unless of course one of these guys becomes part of the 24-hour election cycle.

On the down-side the effort by Obama to simply move forward kind of inadvertently works in their favor. I have hope however that Obama is doing more than just giving speaches but would rather have most of his ducks in a row before pulling the down the hammer.