READER COMMENTS ON
"Al Franken, 'Comity' and FACTS in the U.S. Senate"
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COMMENT #1 [Permalink]
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blubonnet
said on 12/17/2009 @ 11:26 pm PT...
Thank God we got some from the Left showing the cajones we so long have been deprived of from the majority of Ds. Kuccininch has cajones, too bad the media are boot lickers (or ARE) for the defense industry. YAAAAAY!!!! I LOVE Franken. king of cajones in the U.S. Congress.
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blubonnet
said on 12/17/2009 @ 11:28 pm PT...
There are others that have...you know-cajones, like Grayson, and the Black Caucus too have...you know! CAJONES!
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Floridiot
said on 12/18/2009 @ 5:00 am PT...
Al should have kneecapped McCain right after that. Now that would have been funny!
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Andrew
said on 12/18/2009 @ 6:17 am PT...
Franken has quickly become one of my favorite politicians in the time he's been in office.
Go Al!
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TomR
said on 12/18/2009 @ 9:06 am PT...
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Larry Bergan
said on 12/18/2009 @ 11:16 am PT...
Great to hear Frankin telling the truth like they tell the lies: over and over and over...
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Steve W.
said on 12/18/2009 @ 11:25 am PT...
Al Franken is part of the problem, not the solution. His boorish and ill-advised put down of Joe Leiberman advances no agenda, and simply reveals him to be the anal pore that he is.
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Empy
said on 12/18/2009 @ 1:25 pm PT...
I find it very interesting that Mr. McCain can't remember an incident of not allowing the opposition to speak in all his years. Very interesting indeed.
It seems that back when the Iraq war resolution that was being rushed through the Senate in 2002, Robert Byrd had offered an amendment to limit the amount of time President Bush had to exercise his desire to go to war to one year. Beyond which point the authorization would need to be re-authorized. Since Iraq was being called such an imminent threat to America, this wasn't very controversial to not give the President an unlimited window for war.
Yet there were those who fought against it and won. Mr. McCain and Mr. Lieberman being principle among that group. On the Senate floor, Sen. Mark Dayton (D-MN) was adding himself as a co-sponsor the the Byrd ammendment and offering his comments when his time ran out (he had been speaking less than 3 minutes). He requested an additional 30 seconds from the chair (note: this was a request for an actual amount of time, not an additional "moment" which is not measurable).
Of course you know who was quick to object. Of course, John McCain.
The fact that this involves McCain, LIEberman and the junior senator from Minnesota just like 2002 is very ironic and I'm sure will be picked up by FauxNews right away. Maybe not though.
http://thinkprogress.org...ccain-hypocrisy-franken/
Transcript of McCain's objection:
http://cns.miis.edu/cr/021014sd.htm
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Joe Lieberman
said on 12/18/2009 @ 1:38 pm PT...
We hear Al Franken has been having an affair with a young male aid...Any comment
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Chris Hooten
said on 12/18/2009 @ 4:46 pm PT...
If anyone has been compromised by any number of organisations from the RNC to Isreal to Turkey, it would be Lieberman. Look at the weird way he votes on things. There are more strings pulling him than a marionette.
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Ancient
said on 12/23/2009 @ 6:09 am PT...
I'd like to thank Minnahoota for having the good sense to hold elections with an actual ballot that could be recounted and the citizens who actually participated to count them.
Dear Santa,
Please send all good people of this country the same common sense, so we can clean up the mess the military-oil-congressional complex has made of this country.