Remember the long, drawn out, battle in Minnesota for the U.S. Senate between Al Franken and Norm Coleman?

Well, it's finally  over and Al Franken is the victor! Yes, and it only took just a mere 8 months of recounts and court battles, not to mention a waste of tax payers money to determine the winner.

As Sen. Bob Menendez chairman of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee commented, "We've always said that Norm Coleman deserved his day in court, and he got eight months.''

Al Franken is the first former Saturday Night Live cast member to be elected into the Senate. (Are you listening Joe Piscopo?) To give you an idea how much of a whiney Republican d-bag Norm Coleman is, take a look at one of his notoriously nasty campaign smear ads during the election: