{"id":7585,"date":"2009-12-17T19:24:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T03:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7585"},"modified":"2009-12-17T19:26:06","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T03:26:06","slug":"al-franken-comity-and-facts-in-the-us-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7585","title":{"rendered":"Al Franken, ‘Comity’ and FACTS in the U.S. Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) says “comity” in the must-see<\/b> clip below, but “comedy” might have been more appropriate in regard to Sen. Al Franken’s (D-MN) shut down of Sen. Joe Lieberman (WhoKnows-CT), as Franken was presiding over the chamber, which left us laughing out loud<\/i>, and applauding quietly to ourselves. (Via TPM with more background<\/i><\/a>)…<\/p>\n

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And, if you missed it earlier this week, Franken’s take-down of Sen. John Thune (R-SD) is an absolute must-see<\/b> as well. Though we’ve had our own beefs with Franken’s politics over the years, we must concede that it’s frickin’ awesome to finally<\/i> see and hear someone<\/i> — anyone<\/i> — speak this way in the U.S. Senate. We’d be delighted to see 60 more just like him! Check it out if you haven’t seen it already (and again, TPM has more background<\/a>)…<\/p>\n

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Take a bow, Sen. Franken. Please keep up the great work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) says “comity” in the must-see clip below, but “comedy” might have been more appropriate in regard to Sen. Al Franken’s (D-MN) shut down of Sen. Joe Lieberman (WhoKnows-CT), as Franken was presiding over the chamber, which left us laughing out loud, and applauding quietly to ourselves. (Via TPM with more background)… […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,288,381,252,233],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-al-franken","category-health-care","category-joe-lieberman","category-john-mccain","category-us-senate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7585"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}