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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Jesse DID seem sane at the beginning...never forget he told a girl college student that she should pay for her OWN college!!!
“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
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.
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.
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
I remember how "Team Franken" kept "finding" boxes of ballots in automobile trunks.
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