Web Letters: Norm Coleman's Latest Election Scheme

I'm standing and applauding Chris Hayes. There's the guy who got handed the darts to throw at the Norm Coleman election fraud and stuck them all right in the bull's-eye.

Fraud, corruption, bad faith, gop low-road tactical obstructionism, law ignoring motions and filings and all things evil to delay the Minnesota Senator-elect, Al Franken, from being seated. The stench of the GOP conspiracy, decomposing in St. Paul, reaches the Republican Senatorial Committee headquarters, where they are trying to cover up the scent with smoke from burning the Constitution of the United States!

We have arrived at a point in our nation's history where, I am sorry to say, that you cannot place your faith and trust with a Republican United States Senator. Examining what the Republicans have done to bring the global economy to a screeching halt, cause American citizens to become unemployed in numbers that are staggering, as the total rises in thousands and tens of thousands each day, and who worship their de facto leader, a self-proclaimed substance-abusing radio personality who wants President Obama to fail, places saying: "I'm a Republican Senator" at or below the level of answering your doorbell and having your new next-door neighbor, inform you, as required by law, that they are "a recently-released, Level-3 sex offender."

All the proof you need to be convinced that the GOP Senate will stoop to anything to maintain their power and influence over the drafting and passing of critical legislation the Obama administration needs to deliver on the promises President Obama made to us during his campaigning, is to listen to how the Republican Senate leadership urges former Senator Norm Coleman to commit political suicide, with death by 1,000 cuts.

Exploiting Coleman's hate for Senator-elect Al Franken, and benefiting from the vacant Minnesota Senate seat, the GOP funds Coleman's motions and appeals, even though the case is lost. Cheering on the disgraced former Senator to appeal his loss to Franken, "all the way to the Supreme Court."

There has never been a more disgustingly corrupt and shameful display of partisan obstructionism than the GOP is wholly involved in, right now, to prevent and delay Senator-elect Al Franken from being sworn in and seated in the Senate. Franken is being politically raped by the GOP Senate Committee. What was an election contest became an evil conspiracy!

They should install a doorbell on the Senate podium and require any GOP Senator ring it and declare they're a Republican Senator before having another word to say!

The ringleaders of this conspiracy should be prosecuted and jailed for violating their oath to protect and defend the Constitution and not burn it to cover up the stink of making Norm Coleman the patsy of their play to keep that vacant Minnesota Senate seat unoccupied.

Have Coleman concede.

Let the healing begin.

Richard E. Massey

Saratoga Springs, NY