Enormously important in that Franken, with one of the most radical resumes ever nominated (even moreso than Obama! which I thought was impossible) received enough votes to justify a recount, which always favors democrats, particularly radical left-wing democrats, as it did in this case. This example was no exception.

Franken's vote gives democrats a super-majority (as if they need it) to carry out Obama's crazy, left-wing agenda, bringing the country's economy to its knees and strengthening every radical left-wing organization from the UAW to ACORN to Planned Parenthood to the ACLU beyond their wildest hopes and dreams. It makes national socialized health care, Ted Kennedy's long-time socialist dream, a reality and relegates ordinary Americans to an authentic Orwellian 1984-style existence, which will takes decades, perhaps centuries to unravel. Unemployment will soon be in the low teens as CNN and their comrades explain that that is essentially the fault of Bush and Reagan, of course, even though European unemployment levels have consistently exceeded that for the past 20 years.

The only challenge will be to jam it through quickly enough that those whining about "give it time", "give him a chance" or "I waited to criticize Bush . . ." can run out the clock long enough for all the legislation to be enacted before the American people want to read it, which will never happen anyway. What money the government doles out to you will become recognizably worth less on a daily basis as government debt rises to previously unimagined levels, forcing all investment in new technologies (medical and otherwise) overseas, where taxes are appreciably lower, generally in developing nations. All new job generation will, naturally, follow the investment.

Yes, the liberals have taken over the government, but they're really, really smart. You'll see.