I think I did misread the article as having claimed a total of votes for Franken. The article made no claim of votes for either side. I think that the tone of the article does blame Franken for the voter fraud, but I am guessing this BS will die quietly if/when they find that the majority of felons voted for Coleman.

Its just the republican strategy of butt-biting at work here. They just can't accept that they lost the election because people didn't want to vote on the Mayor McCheese/Bible Barbie ticket that was tainted by 8 years of W(orthless). They can't accept that more and more minorities, feminists, and atheists (like Franken) are in positions of leadership.

As far as blaming Bush... all the shit we're dealing with now is his fault. He started the 2 wars that are bleeding our economy dry. He went into office with a surplus and came out 1.3 trillion in debt. The bank bailouts and acquisition of toxic assets were HIS policies. His tax cuts benefited the wealthy much, much more than they benefited the average citizen and stripped the gov't of funding it needs for things like fighting wars.

My main gripe with Obama is that he's too much like Bush. Obama has had ample time to shut down the wars. He blew the opportunity to do away with "no child left behind"... "Race to the Top" is just the same bullshit. It is doubtful he will let the Bush tax cuts expire. Most of his fiscal policies favor corporations over individuals. None of this is a surprise really, I knew from the start that Obama was a centrist. But things are definitely better than they would have been under McCheese. At least we're not at war with Russia and Iran, and at least we don't have Bible Barbie presiding over the senate.