Norm Coleman Owes Us Money

By Baxter

Over the course of the Minnesota Senate race, we cats gave Al Franken $1,625 in campaign contributions. (Our owners wrote the checks for us, because we don't have any thumbs.)

Since Senators serve for six years, or 2,190 days, we guess you could say that we paid about $1.35 per day to send Al Franken to Washington.

We're not claiming to be special — a lot of people gave Franken a lot more money than we did. But as Norm Coleman and his frivolous lawsuit have managed to lop 239 days off Al's term, by our calculation Coleman owes us $322.65.

Where do we send the invoice, Norm?

UPDATE: It occurs to us that we did our math backwards. Since we're talking about more days than dollars here, we should have divided 1,625 by 2,190 instead of the other way around. Therefore, we must point out that Al Franken's Senate seat has only cost us 74 cents a day, which means that Creepy Normie owes us $176.86.

Unless — look at it this way. If we'd had Al voting on the stimulus package, it might have been bigger. Norm, you owe us a billion dollars!

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