Franken shuts down Lieberman on Senate floor

AP on Yahoo ^ | 12/17/09 | AP

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON – Democratic Sen. Al Franken has taken the unusual step of shutting down Sen. Joe Lieberman on the Senate floor.

Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, currently is the target of liberal wrath over his opposition to a government-run insurance plan in the health care bill.

Franken was presiding over the Senate Thursday afternoon as Lieberman spoke about amendments he planned to offer to the bill. Lieberman asked for an additional 30 seconds to finish — a routine request — but Franken refused to grant the time.

[NormsRevenge]

What an asshat Minnesota allowed to represent them.

Pull amendments and break longstanding Senate protocol during the reading if said amendments, shutting down a senior Senator..

Dems , the ultimate in "class". No wonder the Senate's image is so tarnished the last few years.

[Perdogg]

Maybe Lieberman will caucus with the GOP.

[ABQHispConservative]

And yet Lieberman will probably continue to caucus with the rats. What a fool! He deserves this.

[NormsRevenge]

PS..

Why is the junior Senator presiding in the first place?

So the big wigs can hoist a few and wangle deals?

[Joe Boucher]

YOu gonna bet the farm on that?
In the end JOe will vote with the dems.
Soooo why did conservatives get him elected?

[Ann Archy]

Franken...just like ALL the Rabid Rats, are the MOST OBNOXIOUS, RUDE, DISGUSTING people in the country.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Franken does not know his head from his ass and he presided over the senate?

I am living a twilight zone.

Someone wake me up.

[Ann Archy]

LIEberman is a LEFTY.....he MUST stay away from the Pubs.

[rarestia]

The craft of vote fraud has been alive since the dawn of man. Any time a vote could be fraudulently made, it was done. This "craft" has dealt us a very suspicious hand, and I would bet that if a professional polling organization called every American's home and spoke to every legal, registered voter in this country, they would find that the numbers who voted for Obama and the numbers who say they voted for Obama are a gaping chasm.

I have no doubt that ACORN, SEIU, and others orchestrated the most elaborate and well-planned fraud in the history of man. If this country goes down in a ball of flames, we'll be standing at the pyres asking each other, "Is it time to hunt down the maggots who did this to us yet?"

[Perdogg]

Bill Buckley got him elected in 1984 because Bill was RINO hunting.

[OldDeckHand]

Small minded people do small minded things. I’m not sure what all the hub-bub is about. Is anyone surprised that a boorish Al Franken would act like a jerk?

[jazusamo]

Franken must think he’s still running his lame TV show, but then he might be right.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

——A quote from DU——

The left is convinced that Obama is a sellout and the right is convinced that Obama is a marxist,

In the world of politics, we’re all bellied up to the bar of insanity and drinking deeply.

I AM LIVING IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE AS I AGREE WITH THE DUMMIES!

[ozzymandus]

Thanks again, Minnesota. Who didn’t think Franken would pull crap like this? Doesn’t the US Senate have a grownup in charge to keep petulant children like Franken from behaving like a playground bully?

[autumnraine]

Wonder if those reach across the aisles are getting a wake up call?

[IbJensen]

We don’t need Lieberman.

[Lou Budvis]

Can see where a senator of franken’s stature feels he’s entitled to pull rank on a newbie like Joe L. C’mon over Joe. You wouldn’t be worse than Snowe or Collins and are light years of Ned Lamont.

PS I’m sure the dailykooks wet themselves over this stunt.

[mombonn]

Maybe Lieberman will caucus with the GOP.

And maybe hades will freeze over. LIEberman is a self-serving weasel.

[the invisib1e hand]

major useful idiot alert.

[Dr. Sivana]

True about WFB, wrong year though. 1988.