This guy is kooky, and I hate when he's on Bill Maher, because he blurts everyone else out and doesn't give them a chance to talk.

Franken has more votes than Coleman. Where is the power grab? I would think the guy who received less votes and was trying to overturn an election, would be described as the one trying a "power grab".

Guess since he has kissed and made up with rush limpballs, now he has nothin' better to do than attack al franken.

The repug/neocons worst nightmare - a professional comedian in Congress - in Paul Wellstone's old seat no less.

If they'd have known it would come to this, they wouldn't have bumped him off in the first place.

This is the email I just sent out:

Mr. Steele,

I have been impressed with much of the way you have presented yourself and tried to transform the Republican Party into a more relevant force in our political system. When you spoke about understanding why the nation has no reason at all to trust Republicans, I saw a person who showed promise of understanding how fragile trust is, and how hard it is to repair breaches of trust, especially when the breaches have been as massive as they have been the last 8 years. It takes courage for people to admit they have been wrong, if they are sincere about it, and not just using it as a rhetorical device.

I even admired and supported your initial dismissal of Rush Limbaugh and saw it as a refreshing perspective coming from someone in a leadership position, as well as an augur of better things to come.

Thus I was profoundly disappointed that you almost immediately started backpedaling on your promising and accurate description of Mr. Limbaugh. Your 180 degree reversal on that had all the hallmarks of someone being compelled to change a well-considered position, out of either pressure from a person or persons in a position of power, to whom he is beholden, and/or for whom he is just a front, or someone who is afraid of someone or something unseen. Your switch from a position of courage to cowering was striking, and sad to see.

Then, on top of that, I just came across your email solicitation for the Republican Candidate in the Minnesota Senate Election Contest. I can imagine that you have not had enough time to be able to keep close tabs on those proceedings and might have relied on the input from others in characterizing that contest the way you did. If you did rely on others, I would strongly suggest that you stop listening to them, or in the strongest terms, advise them to get their facts right before they put you in a position to embarrass yourself so much again. If you spoke on your own initiative, then shame on you.

I have had the privilege of watching that election, mandated recount, and subsequent election contest, and can confidently say that the only similarities between what has actually happened in that process and how you described it is in the names of the two candidates.

It is true that at the beginning there was a cacophony of voices crying foul, corruption, malfeasance and misfeasance, fraud, massive error, conspiracy and almost every other imaginable accusation of wrongdoing that could be leveled against the Secretary of State, election officials, the DFL party, the ubiquitous ACORN, and Al Franken. That turmoil continued to be fed during the first couple of months, but over the course of these proceedings these accusations have steadily faded because they were proven almost without exception, save for some relatively innocent and unintentional confusion or errors, to have no foundation whatsoever.

In fact that whole undertaking has been the most sound, transparent, and fair process that I could imagine, in evaluating and resolving the results of this manifestation of the rather messy process we call democracy.

Your characterization of this election and its aftermath not only fails to acknowledge the heroic work done throughout this election, recount, and contest, but undermines and despicably demeans the work, as well as impugns the character, of thousands of volunteer and professional staff who have done their best to be thorough, fair, honest, and diligent in all of their efforts in completing an exercise of democratic process in the best traditions of our great democracy.

You, your colleagues, and your party, and all its associates owe an immediate, abject, profound, and sincere apology to all of the people of Minnesota. Anything less will earn you only contempt and repudiation by all citizens who look for a healthy, responsible, reputable, and admirable alternative to the Democratic Party.

And next time check your facts before you light the bonfires and start the lynching.

What else can we expect. The Repubs always shout that someone else is doing what they are doing. Mr. Brown #4 comment, good letter. But they'll know you are a liberal enemy of America who wants our President Obama to succeed, and round file it. Now if we could send them 100,000 letters they might pay attention.

How nice that Steele took a break from groveling at the feet of his Massa Limbaugh.

http://www.thedailyshow....p;title=cpac-after-party

http://www.thedailyshow....itle=a-party-in-limbaugh

Man, I guess repubs forget that an adult only punishes a child when asked what happened in a bad situation... if they continually lie and won't eggmit the TRUTH.

Hypocrisy, lies, faux outrage, the same tired ideas, party before country, obstruction... that's all they got. If the MSM were even slightly less biased, they'd be less popular and in more disarray then they are now. Leaderless, directionless, and hopeless. They brought it on themselves. Screw 'em.

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CORRECTION : Your commentary states : the subsequent election contest (presided over by three bi-partisan judges selected by the Republican Supreme Court chief justice in MN)

Actually the MN-SC Chief Justice participated in the State Canvassing Board so he reccused himself from selecting the judges. The selection was made by Justice Alan Page who is the only member of the MN-SC that was not appointed by a governor but was elected by the people.

Other than that minor error, a great column.

But even better is Mr. Brown's letter !

As the former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland and candidate for the U.S. Senate, I'm no stranger to the gutter campaign tactics and shady legal maneuverings of the Left Wing. They don't fight fair, and they'll stop at nothing to consolidate the power they crave.

I guess you would. Your campaign distributed flyers that inferred you were a democrat. You distributed flyers that listed you among democrats with a sample ballot. Your campaign had signs that said Democrats for Steele. You took a salary from your campaign funds. You're being investigated now for possible campaign finance fraud. Yeah... I guess you'd know.