Caligula Has His Horse

However, it is arguable that the Roman Emperor Caligula's horse, named Incitatus, was smarter and easier on the eyes than the pathetic troll that was just appointed to the U.S. Senate by the Supreme Court of Minnesota. And unlike the aforementioned state supreme court and the ignorant Minnesotans who voted for Franken, Caligula was only rumored to have contemplated awarding Incitatus a consulship. Caligula, as insane as he may have been, did not actually do the deed. And had he done so, Caligula's insanity (perhaps brought on by a form of syphilis) might have rendered such a deed forgivable. The Minnesotans who voted for Franken and the corrupt Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party machine that stole the election from Sen. Norm Coleman have no such excuse.

If you want to get an idea of just what a hateful low-life Al Franken is, consider these incidents from the past few years:

• From the October 30, 2006 issue of the New Statesman: “Publicly, Franken says he won't announce until next year; privately, he's said to have decided already to stand against the Republican Norm Coleman... Coleman, says Franken bluntly, is 'one of the administration's leading butt boys.'"
• From the October 21, 2005 episode of The Late Show with David Letterman: "The President’s father...has said that outing a CIA agent is treason....What it looks like is going to happen is that [Lewis] Libby and Karl Rove are going to be executed....I don’t know how I feel about it because I’m basically against the death penalty, but they are going to be executed."
• An exchange with Karl Rove, reported in the March 29, 2004 issue of Newsweek: "At a black-tie dinner in Washington last spring, Franken says, Karl Rove ribbed him for standing when the president entered the room. But Rove remembers it differently. Franken, he says, came over to him and said, 'I'm Al Franken. I hate you and you hate me.' Rove says he was taken aback."

Also, consider that Minnesota has elected politicians of questionable character and competence to high political office before, most infamously the former professional wrestler Jesse "The Body" Ventura - elected governor in 1998. Ventura was a complete embarrassment to his state while in office and has continued to be so since leaving in 2003. During the past few years, Ventura has even suggested that he thinks the destruction of the World Trade Center by Islamic terrorists on September 11, 2001 may have actually been a conspiracy orchestrated by the federal government.

I'm sure Franken will be just as much of an embarrassment, if not more so. Minnesota is no longer the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes. They are the Land of Ten Thousand Loons. And now the rest of the country must suffer for their stupidity, as Franken's election to the Senate gives the Democrats a sixty-vote super-majority.

Mirabeau B. Lamar keeps looking smarter all the time.