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Franken shuts down Lieberman on Senate floor
AP on Yahoo ^ | 12/17/09 | AP

Posted on 12/17/2009 1:31:55 PM PST by 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.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: 111th; acorn; al; barclay; barclay3rdparty; deanbarclay; democrats; franken; killthebill; liberalfascism; lieberman; mn; senate; weird
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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.

1 posted on 12/17/2009 1:31:56 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

Maybe Lieberman will caucus with the GOP.


2 posted on 12/17/2009 1:32:51 PM PST by Perdogg (Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
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To: NormsRevenge

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


3 posted on 12/17/2009 1:33:18 PM PST by ABQHispConservative (A good Blue Dog is an unelected Blue Dog. Ditto Rino's!)
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PS..

Why is the junior Senator presiding in the first place?

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


4 posted on 12/17/2009 1:33:32 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. May yur bandwidth exceed your girth)
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To: Perdogg

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


5 posted on 12/17/2009 1:36:23 PM PST by Joe Boucher (This marxist punk has got to go.)
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To: NormsRevenge

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


6 posted on 12/17/2009 1:36:53 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion,,,,,,the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: NormsRevenge

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.


7 posted on 12/17/2009 1:37:22 PM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: Perdogg

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


8 posted on 12/17/2009 1:37:33 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion,,,,,,the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: NormsRevenge
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?"

9 posted on 12/17/2009 1:37:46 PM PST by rarestia (Confutatis maledictis, voca me cum benedictis)
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To: Joe Boucher

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


10 posted on 12/17/2009 1:37:51 PM PST by Perdogg (Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
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To: NormsRevenge

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?


11 posted on 12/17/2009 1:38:05 PM PST by OldDeckHand
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To: NormsRevenge

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


12 posted on 12/17/2009 1:39:13 PM PST by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: NormsRevenge

——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!


13 posted on 12/17/2009 1:39:30 PM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: NormsRevenge

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?


14 posted on 12/17/2009 1:39:41 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: NormsRevenge

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


15 posted on 12/17/2009 1:39:42 PM PST by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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To: Perdogg

We don’t need Lieberman.


16 posted on 12/17/2009 1:40:24 PM PST by IbJensen (A Prayer for Obama (Ps 109.8): "Let his days be few; and let another take his position.")
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To: NormsRevenge

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.


17 posted on 12/17/2009 1:40:37 PM PST by Lou Budvis (She never bankrupted Alaska nor bowed to royalty.)
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To: Perdogg
Maybe Lieberman will caucus with the GOP.

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

18 posted on 12/17/2009 1:40:42 PM PST by mombonn (God is looking for spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.)
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To: NormsRevenge

major useful idiot alert.


19 posted on 12/17/2009 1:40:43 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (free enterprise (the first word is a verb))
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To: Perdogg

True about WFB, wrong year though. 1988.


20 posted on 12/17/2009 1:41:13 PM PST by Dr. Sivana
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