TPM is reporting ominous signs in the MN Senate race for Al Franken. If you care about healthcare, torture, environmental regulation, the stimulus, nationalization, education, etc and hate Blue Dog Dems' and Republican obstructionism then you MUST participate. We need that 59th Senate seat. I've included all the emails I could find from the major news networks and feedback forms, so please use them and urge them to cover what is going on with the Minnesota senate race that Coleman is about to throw a wrench in. It is getting absolutely no national attention! I don't think i need to remind anyone here how it only took 3 Republican senators, and a handful of Blue Dog Dems to strip the recent stimulus of a lot of stimulative things like transit, education, unemployment benefits, oversight, healthcare funding...things most people would not easily consider as pork (such as things like funding the arts, contraceptives, the national mall which conservatives can easily pigeonhole as wasteful):
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