" Richard talked about Minnesota taking a little bit longer than Florida. In Minnesota we counted the votes," Franken said, prompting laughter from the packed room. http://politicalblogs.startribune.com/bigquestionblog/?p=1360 Al Franken was sworn in as Minnesota senator yesterday (you can watch the chilling video here.) As dismaying as it may be to see a less-funny more-bombastic left-wing version of Ann Coulter become a member of the world's greatest deliberative body, yesterday brought a small TEXT