Posted on 12/07/2017 4:46:30 PM PST by Ennis85
Al Franken announced his resignation on the floor of the Senate today, a development that makes abundantly clear that the Democratic and Republican parties have never been more different in modern American history than they are right at this moment.
Franken’s speech started off on a surprisingly defiant note, going much farther than he had up until this point in asserting that the charges made against him are not true. But that only reinforces the point I’m making about the two parties, as I’ll explain in a moment:
“Over the last few weeks, a number of women have come forward to talk about how they felt my actions had affected them. I was shocked. I was upset. But in responding to their claims, I also wanted to be respectful of that broader conversation, because all women deserve to be heard and their experiences taken seriously. I think that was the right thing to do. I also think it gave some people the false impression that I was admitting to doing things that in fact I haven’t done. Some of the allegations against me are simply not true. Others I remember very differently.”
As I argued in a piece today at The Week, when it comes to sex scandals, it’s usually the most guilty, least repentant politicians who wind up surviving, whether it’s Bill Clinton or Roy Moore or Donald Trump. Those latter two have seen their party go through the same cycle: At first the party (or at least significant portions of it) is outraged at revelations of their misbehavior and withdraws its support for their candidacy. But then, when it appears that the offender is not politically doomed, they come back to stand behind him.
Many Republicans rescinded their support for Trump after the release of the “Access Hollywood”
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Haha! The joke is in them. Neither party has any integrity.
Just wow.
What about that Hispanic guy that’s been on trial for corruption? Oh, you never heard about that, I guess, it hasn’t been on the news
We have one major party, the uniparty. What are these “great parties” that are being spoken of?
Politics is a scam and we’re suckers for playing.
Integrity means telling the truth. The post doesn’t know its head from its whatever.
“Disregard the partisan breakdown of the sexual misconduct scoreboard over the last 25 years. The decks were cleared today after Al Franken’s nationally televised non-resignation in which he called all of his accusers liars.”
Franken’s resignation shows that Wisconsin would elect the gopher from Caddy Shack!
Technically hes still working as a senator right now.
He has not yet resigned.
Fake News.
Did or did not Frankenstein resign today?
he hasn’t left yet. If Moore wins, I’m guessing Franken will put his “retirement” on hold.
The only reason he wouldn’t is, he knows there are more women waiting in the wings.
Allegations and lies vs. photo evidence? Pretty weak argument.
WaPoop = FakeNews
Franken has not resigned... yet. And both the traitorous Demonicrats and the gutless coward RINOcrats have as little integrity as the fifth-column leftist WaPoop.
Franken-Groper took one for the team, today, including parting shots at President Trump.
And President Trump laughed and laughed and laughed. :)
Frankenstein stole his Election in Mondale’s Minnesota...
Actually, diaper-man did not resign.
Typical Congressliar. Typical.
He didn’t resign.
He said he would resign, but didn’t say when. He also didn’t make any confessions of guilt, in fact quite the opposite. He said some allegations were untrue, and on others he had a different memory than the accusers. He denied everything, even with the photo evidence that everyone has seen.
I think he’s going to take it back, next Wednesday. He’s going to say he’ll resign when Moore and Trump do.
The Franken-groper didn’t resign.
He only said that he would.
IMHO The Franken-groper is waiting to see if Roy Moore wins the election in Alabama.
If Moore doesn’t win he will probably stay.
If Moore wins he will probably have to resign.
It would be difficult for democrats to effectively attack Moore (who denied the allegations against him) with a sitting democrat senator who has had an actual photo spread around the world showing him groping a sleeping woman.
OK, Minnesota. He couldn’t have stolen it though if the election weren’t close so ... Franken’s resignation shows that Minnesota would elect the gopher from Caddy Shack!
Minnesota.
Wisconsin flipped RED for Trump and our Governor Scott Walker, (R, WI) Kicks. Ass. :)
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