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Al Franken takes over the U.S. Senate floor to explain a newspaper cartoon to the waiting nation
LA Times ^ | May 7, 2010

Posted on 05/07/2010 7:19:47 AM PDT by rhema

All we can say is thank goodness Minnesota's newest Democratic U.S. senator, Al Franken, was on duty Thursday.

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And we realized suddenly that somehow we had inexplicably missed the comedian's detailed explanation of a newspaper editorial cartoon enlarged so that he could identify the symbols and characters in it so the elderly senators could see it. The current White House's pedantry is apparently infectious.

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No, this is not a "Saturday Night Live" skit. This is the real thing from the Senate floor where the 100 members are paid $174,000 -- each -- for this work. The folks back home must be very proud of the honorable gentleman.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: franken; wallstreet
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Jesse DID seem sane at the beginning...never forget he told a girl college student that she should pay for her OWN college!!!


41 posted on 05/07/2010 4:51:32 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion,,,,,,the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Nickname

“Does he always sound drunk when he speaks?”
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That’s what I wondered too. He apparently just naturally acts like the character Foster Brooks created. Foster Brooks was a sober, intelligent man who played the part of a stupid drunk. Franken is a stupid man who sounds drunk trying to play the part of a Senator.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzAXb7qCCAo


42 posted on 05/07/2010 5:02:42 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
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To: 70th Division

Too bad old Strom is gone, when Strom Thurmond was seventy or so he could have gone through Franken like a chain saw through hot butter.


43 posted on 05/07/2010 5:07:54 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
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To: 70th Division

Too bad old Strom is gone, when Strom Thurmond was seventy or so he could have gone through Franken like a chain saw through hot butter.


44 posted on 05/07/2010 5:08:32 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
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To: Volunteer
Why MN? Why did you do this to yourselves?

Norm Coleman did it to us by acting like a Panty-Waisted Republicrat.

The Communist-Democrats ran a fake Independence Candidate who siphoned off just enough of the Clueless to let the Commies get close enough to manufactuer the few extra votes needed to send the ASSCLOWN Franken to DC.

End of Story

45 posted on 05/07/2010 6:43:36 PM PDT by HP8753 (Live Free!!!! .............or don't.)
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To: Bitsy; Eric in the Ozarks
I remember now. I was rooting for Coleman. I’m remembering that was a close race, right?

I remember how "Team Franken" kept "finding" boxes of ballots in automobile trunks.

46 posted on 05/07/2010 6:46:49 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear (Does not play well with others.)
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