Posted on 12/08/2017 6:22:11 AM PST by blam
In the comedy movie “Anchorman,” comedian Will Farrell advises his TV audience to “stay classy.” On Thursday, former “Saturday Night Live” comedian Al Franken didn’t follow that advice and resigned from the U.S. Senate in a particularly classless way.
Even after eight women told reporters that the Minnesota Democrat had groped or forcibly kissed them, Franken denied he had done anything wrong.
Franken said from the Senate floor that “some of the allegations are simply not true” and that he remembered other accusations differently. He then tried to wrap himself in a feminist flag by vowing he had always been a “champion of women” and saying “I respect women. I don’t respect men who don’t.”
Nonetheless, Franken announced he would resign from the Senate seat he’d held for eight years in coming weeks because he couldn’t defend himself before the Ethics Committee and at the same time focus on being a senator.
Pardon me for saying it, but that’s horsepucky.
Political observers say the speed with which Democrats forced Franken and Michigan Democratic Rep. John Conyers, the longest-serving member of Congress, to resign over sexual misconduct allegations is breathtaking.
Franken said earlier that he was confident he could ride out the Ethics Committee probe of his pre-Senate behavior and seek forgiveness from the voters. What forced him into his sudden departure was the decision by his party’s leadership to sacrifice him so they could spend the next year before the midterm elections painting Republicans as waging a “war on women.”
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I agree. Franken won't leave until after the new session is seated. He'll have a sudden attack of selective outrage and withdraw his resignation. Anyone else on the slow-boat out will also reconsider.
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Franken is in a tough spot. If Moore is elected, our valiant and courageous Republican senators have promised that the first order of business will be an ethics investigation. Franken can't be a part of that.
That’s a great point. No drop-out is giving up their seat for an opposing governor to fill.
Did he even accept responsibility for ANYTHING he did??!!
What I remember him saying is that either it didn’t happen or the women are remembering it wrong.
DESPITE THERE BEING A PICTURE OF HIM WITH HIS HANDS EITHER NEAR OR ON A SLEEPING WOMAN’S PRIVATE PARTS.
He isn’t going anywhere. You wait and see. He left his departure murky for a reason. and I am sure he is using the dems playbook on how short Americans’ attention spans are. I look for some traumatic event to happen in the near future that will take the the attention away from him and his resignation will fall to the wayside.
If the democrats think they have developed a grand strategy, it will match their grand strategy they thought would defeat Trump last year.
What they can’t figure out is that Trump’s locker room talk refers to concepts that every woman who has ever had a date has to deal with — welcomed or not welcomed. It is not new, and they will probably laugh to themselves as they vote for Trump. The Jennifer Lawrence and Rosy O’Donnell types will not vote for Trump anyway.
I agree with you 100%. Franken is, after all, an “actor”. He’s acting like (1) he’s sorry he offended women and (2) that he will leave the Senate.
This is some big theatrical act. The Dems are either thinking this is a last-ditch attempt to keep people from voting for Moore, or, if Moore is elected, will “deal” as to creating problems for Moore, with this threat of Franken to resign.
They think they have us over a barrel. This has NOTHING to do with Franken actually resigning, or with him regretting any of his indiscretions (to which he felt entitled).
JMHO
Franken originally said he would fully cooperate with an ethics investigation into his “activities” ... betting on the good old boys club to not kick him out. He got pressure from Schumer/Dems to resign rather than go the ethics route due to using him as a pawn against Trump (IMO). I think he’s a little steamed about it .... announcing he’ll resign at some point in the future (and his non-apology speech) took the pressure off for now. If/when Moore comes in, I think he’ll decide to stay in & let ethics handle his situation as that is what will also happen with Moore.
Democrats—the party of paedophilia normalization—are going to have to answer for the likes of FDR, JFK, LBJ, BJ Klintoon, and Teddy Kennedy before they start throwing stones at Roy Moore and Donald Trump.
Yup!!
It’s true. They are relentlessly and brazenly attempting to negate the results of an election they simply will not accept. This is sedition and every last one of them should be in jail.
I’m sure our esteemed Attorney General is working on it right now... oh, well, maybe not right now. He has to finish his nap first.
Franken was just a pawn sacrificed in order to make a play for the opposing King.
They’re counting on the public forgetting the dems are the ones who pushed the “none of our business” scenario, with the Cajun slamming all the accusers as tramps who wanted it?
Let’s start playing all that footage for starters!!
Condemnation and perpetual outrage seems the favorite (and only) “progressive” “strategy” for the foreseeable future. There’s little or no policies that IMHO benefit and appeal the middle class. If fact the middle class are being routinely condemned for their “privilege”… what used to be normal everyday life and mores are now and have been for a year or more condemned as “bigotry”. ALL that many of us learned in our youth as “right and wrong” is now condemned as “hate speech”. Judeo-Christian traditions are being condemned and even outlawed as “anti-diversity.
Now in a HUGE #RustyIrony… their sacred “War on Women” has turned inward and brought many “progressive icon champions of women” down with a barrage of “friendly fire”.
Hollywood stars and the richest 1% among us… self-righteously condemn average folks for their lifestyles as “sins against the earth” and (that all-time favorite) “racism”… as if prosperity and freedom are NOT for we “ordinaries”… but only for the rich and their “walls” which they live behind.
Yet through all this… we are told all this condemnation is for our “benefit”… we must use our votes to restrain ourselves and reduce our pursuits of happiness... lest we be condemned for “greed”! Note to “progressives”… brazen arrogance and hypocrisy IMHO is NOT a winning election formula.
Note: how many time “condemnation” is used in my post… do “progressives” have any other policy? How tone deaf can they be, to reach the middle they all claim to champion???
I am confused. Did Franken actually quit? Can he change his mind and unresign “in the coming weeks”?
They did an about face when it occurred to them that they'd look beyond ridiculous attacking Moore and Trump for alleged sexual harassment if they defended the same in their people. So as part of the broader strategy, Franken and Conyers had to go under the bus. Their gamble won't pay off.
Franken has become one more broken egg in Lenin’s Utopian omelet.
the ones force out were disposable in deep blue areas. or appointments in deep blue.
The RINOs did a human sacrifice in the same vein.
I’m not so sure that Minnesota is “Deep Blue.” Hillary only won the state by a few thousand votes.
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