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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThank you Al Franken!
And thank you Sen. Leahy!
Why? For this:
According to the sources, McCabe authorized the criminal inquiry after a top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, and then-Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., wrote a letter in March 2017 to the FBI urging agents to investigate "all contacts" Sessions may have had with Russians, and "whether any laws were broken in the course of those contacts or in any subsequent discussion of whether they occurred."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-fired-fbi-official-authorized-criminal-probe-sessions/story?id=53914006
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)It's what we have come to expect from the great Senator from Vermont and Franken was simply becoming a lion.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)I understand anyone who thinks he should.
ProfessorGAC
(64,963 posts)He won't but why shouldn't he?
And the answer to your probable question is: no, i don't believe the accusers. One is an obvious liar and plant, one has questionable memory, one showed a hypersensitivity to her own appearance, another has a story contradicted by someone else who was there and the others were anonymous.
A minimum of one of those accusers had a personal gain in the "story". Not true of Moore, not true of the sloth in the White House. And Roger Stone and Sean Hannity were involved. So, i'm not hanging anything on the veracity of people making any claims, about anything, in those circumstances.
He was, imo, railroaded, and the idea that the people of MN would not have had the sufficient judgment to make up their own minds, you know like the people of Alabama did(!), is an unforgivable breach of the public trust.
That you don't see that is what i don't understand.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Please point me to where I said I don't see any of that.
You literally just made up a whole argument. Completely made up. I have no use in elaborating when that is your method of discussion.
"He won't" +1
ProfessorGAC
(64,963 posts)Intellectually weak, but convenient.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Then you call me intellectually weak. lol
I don't feel the need to make a similar retort. I hope you are smiling and having a wonderful day.
Champion Jack
(5,378 posts)yes he does
The_REAL_Ecumenist
(715 posts)100K%. What has happened as the result of what he told Mueller practically screams it...
magicarpet
(14,144 posts)MineralMan
(146,282 posts)I won't soon forget that. He was one of my Senators. I will remember. I have an excellent memory.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)I miss his voice in the Senate.
brush
(53,759 posts)MelissaB
(16,420 posts)I wish I could say we was my senator, though.
wellst0nev0ter
(7,509 posts)Guess which name I will be voting against in every primary.
BigmanPigman
(51,582 posts)True Blue American
(17,982 posts)She is not fit to be a Democrat!
Sherrod Brown received an ear full from me,too! He answers his emails. Sherrod Tried to explain why he did that. By talking about how harassment was important.
I answered by telling him he was avoiding what I said about the woman being hired by Clear Channel and there were many videos of her doing worse to others. He did not answer that one.
I have admired Sherrod Brown since he flew back from his Mothers funeral to cast the deciding vote on the ACA.
I will vote for him because his opponent is a dirty Republican, but he really disappointed me on Al.
Clear Channel declared bankruptcy so I hope she is out of a job,too!
zentrum
(9,865 posts)
never forget or forgive. Will support virtually any primary challenger.
But she's an entrenched power and will probably make it to the general.
LoveMyCali
(2,015 posts)The same one as me. I can't even stand to look at her anymore.
RVN VET71
(2,690 posts)and I hope she gets successfully primaried -- but I doubt that will happen.
That said, if she's the candidate, please, folks, hold your noses and vote against the Republican by voting for Railroad Lady. It's a tough thing to do, I admit. But you have to remember that the call for Al's resignation was endorsed by a lot of Democratic Senators -- Warren being just the most upsetting of them -- who may have shown exceedingly craven judgment in this case, but they're the only soldiers we've got, at least at the moment.
LoveMyCali
(2,015 posts)but I'm still hoping it isn't her.
pazzyanne
(6,546 posts)He was also my Senator. I, too, will remember, and I have an excellent memory as well. I can't shake the feeling that he was "sacrificed", and to what end?
True Blue American
(17,982 posts)I like Richard but he is still a Republican.
pazzyanne
(6,546 posts)Tina is a solid politician, but I am afraid for her chances of holding that seat. At least Painter is better than Tim Pawlenty or Michelle Bachmann. Minnesota has elected both Pawlenty and Bachmann for more than one term. Both were a disaster for Minnesota.
ananda
(28,856 posts)I appreciate good senators. Period.
And I don't appreciate railroads .. and by our own party, for godssakes!!
Red Raider 85
(101 posts)The right wingers led certain Dem pols into a circular firing squad with Sen. Al as the prize.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)PatrickforO
(14,569 posts)A right wing set up.
True Blue American
(17,982 posts)Have been furious with them for that one.
Made sure Sherrod Brown knew what I thought of that! And he is my favorite.
Fullduplexxx
(7,851 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,163 posts)2. Al Franken put Sessions on the spot and forced him to recuse himself, and eventually see to it that Robert Mueller was appointed as Special Counsel.
3. Out of the blue, Roger Stone and InfoWars cryptically tweeted about Franken's "time in the barrel"
4. The next day, the news broke about Leeann Tweeden--who toured with Franken on a USO tour before he was a Senator and who like Roger Stone was also a frequent guest of Sean Hannity--claiming Franken sexually harassed her and provided a photo from the tour where it appears Franken was reaching towards her chest while she slept. (Franken apologized for the photo and admitted it was in bad taste, but denied all other claims of inappropriate behavior).
5. After about a month of continued pressure against Franken, Franken resigns his Senate seat.
poboy2
(2,078 posts)LakeArenal
(28,810 posts)FakeNoose
(32,613 posts)Do you think it's connected? I'll bet it is! Never underestimate the vileness of th eGOP.
poboy2
(2,078 posts)gibraltar72
(7,500 posts)made Imperial Grand Wizard/Attorney general nervous.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)geardaddy
(24,926 posts)Thanks for doing your job well, Al!
CelticWinter
(1,399 posts)BadgerMom
(2,770 posts)and Sessions fires McCabe, isnt that obstruction of justice? Clearly, IANAL.
spooky3
(34,425 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)Miss you AL...
TrishaJ
(797 posts)seat has paved the way for the unending, unrelenting, and unsavory tales of debauchery leveled at Donald J. Trump, who looks so SLEAZY against the flimsy reason for forcing the Senator to resign.
rzemanfl
(29,556 posts)could do that in comparison to Orange Julius Caesar.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,659 posts)wearing dirty raincoats and with popcorn boxes in their laps are less sleazy than Dolt 45.
RussBLib
(9,006 posts)He sure deserves a second chance. The current resident of the White House has been given mulligan after mulligan after mulligan.
dameatball
(7,396 posts)Franken......I made suggestive overtures during my role as a comedian.....so I must resign
Trump....I grabbed them by the pussy and sex with a prostitute bit I have been forgiven
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demmiblue
(36,834 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,659 posts)before he got thrown under the bus by his own colleagues - a craven political maneuver that I will never forget.
cp
(6,622 posts)Heroic work on the Judiciary Committee. Al will always be a hero.
We, too, will not forget who forced him out (cough, ahem, Gillibrand, et al).
Stuart G
(38,414 posts)malchickiwick
(1,474 posts)...behind bars?
Sophia4
(3,515 posts)jalan48
(13,853 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,659 posts)It looks like she's getting involved in the opioid crisis and mental health issues. https://www.smith.senate.gov/
jalan48
(13,853 posts)brush
(53,759 posts)backstabbing of Franken and the subsequent special election it engendered, she might be opposed by Richard Painter, a decent man who has staunchly opposed trump over and over again on the cable news shows.
And that exposure he gets is a blessing for Democrats opposed to trump but a problem for the Democrat he may oppose in the special election.
She gets no exposure at all.
jalan48
(13,853 posts)She seems to be MIA on that front.
quickesst
(6,280 posts).... but Al Franken was my Senator too. Yeah, he was, and still remais that good.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Wherever and whenever he decides to re-establish himself, he will immediately inure to a loving, respectful and reverent public. I was simply gobsmacked by the man. Washington needs 535 of his kind. Or one in the White House.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Al Franken....What a loss to the Democratic Party and the country.
dalton99a
(81,426 posts)Mountain Mule
(1,002 posts)walkingman
(7,591 posts)elmac
(4,642 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)Gothmog
(145,046 posts)onecent
(6,096 posts)SFnomad
(3,473 posts)The knives come out for Gillibrand, Harris and a few others.
I never seem to see anyone at DU with the same vitriol for Bernie Sanders, who on December 6th called for Franken to resign. The next day, Franken announced his intention to resign.
wellst0nev0ter
(7,509 posts)Gillibrand, Harris, etc are. Those who can't see a ratfucking while its happening, and refuses to deal with the Franken issue the right way, don't deserve my support
LexVegas
(6,043 posts)They put a spell on the men!
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)A first class mind!!
oasis
(49,365 posts)sandensea
(21,615 posts)But you know what? His passion is alive and well, in the Senate and in the good people seeing this investigation through.
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)Meaning the senior Senator from New York... Chuck Schumer.
Gillibrand was the ambitious and willing puppet, but I'm fairly certain that Schumer wanted Franken out of the way and used her (and the other members of the Democratic caucus) to make that happen.
jazzcat23
(176 posts)He was an amazing, great senator and I believe he needs to come back, with a vengeance. I am still surprised he didn't give them a fight for his position. I mean, he was a civilian at that time in question, and it shouldn't have gotten that far. I think they are afraid of him and that's why they outed him.
betsuni
(25,447 posts)Raine
(30,540 posts)he's true patriot I'm not forgetting how he was railroaded!