"So welcome back Al. With the raft of problems the DFL is going to have in next year's election, you just made that burden even heavier."
There is an old saying, and I really don't know where it came from. So and so or something which is unwanted, or over-stayed, was referred to as a "red headed step child". Be that as it may that I don't know the derivation, I sure the heck know what it means today. In fact, "turd in a punch bowl" could also be accurate. Yes friends, now that Turkey Day is over, I am talking about our own turkey - Al Franken.
Al has been a pretender to the throne ever since he was first elected (fraudulently). He is a product of Hollywood and the New York glam side. He would do anything for a joke, including dressing up in a diaper. Come to think of it, wearing a diaper might have been appropriate for his churlish and often sophomoric behavior on stage. Many of his jokes were mean spirited towards those who disagreed with him, and often times became gutter humor. But because he was a celebrity (of sorts), many clueless minions in this state elected him by the the most narrow and contested margin.
In the paper today, it was reported that the ego of this man will not allow him to do the right and honorable thing and resign. Go quietly into the night, as others who have betrayed the public trust have done. Even though a sizable portion of the state's population think we have seen this movie enough. So Al is going to stick around. Like a stubborn winter virus which never seems to go away.
From the Red Team's perspective, having a wounded Al Franken stay in office might not be a bad thing. Now that Al has lost all moral authority, he will just be a shell of a Senator during any type of committee or hearing he is a part of. With Amy's re-election bid coming up next year, having Al tied to her foot like a millstone cannot be good for the Blue Team.
When Paul Wellstone held that seat, even though I disagreed with most of his ideas, it still liked the man for his honesty. Plus, he really was a nice person. I have met the late Senator Wellstone - I have never met Al. I liked Paul Wellstone. From what I hear from those who have met or worked with him, there is not much likable about Al.
So welcome back Al. With the raft of problems the DFL is going to have in next year's election, you just made that burden even heavier. But who cares, right? Power if everything, and as we know power never corrupts. Right? Absolutely.
It is said that Al lost his value to the DFL once he cast the 60th vote for Obamacare, and so he is likely to go under the bus DEPENDING on the special election in Alabama. If Moore wins, it means the People are a forgiving lot. If he loses, the Dems will have a hard time not putting up a sacrificial lamb of their own. I'm hoping the people of Alabama reject the obvious political dirty tricks and elect Moore, and THEN go after the people spreading the scurrilous lies.
ReplyDeleteThe dotard gave a speech on Thanksgiving Day at a Florida Coast Guard station.
ReplyDeletePicking out a handful of the oddest quotes.
1. "But if you were looking at it as a brand, there's no brand that went up more than the Coast Guard, with what happened in Texas."
2. "You saved 16,000 lives -- nobody knows that -- 16,000 lives."
3. "That was a big water job, right? It kept coming in and going back."
4. "I think that there is no brand, of any kind -- I'm not just talking about a military brand -- that has gone up more than the Coast Guard."
5. "I still haven't figured out how people take their boats out into a hurricane."
6. "I don't know -- I mean, they go out in a boat and they think, I guess, they're -- you know, they've got a wonderful boat, they've had it for years, it can weather anything."
45 may lack in public speaking skill, but more importantly, he is challenging my mental health, and his party is coming for my health care, my mom’s nursing home fees, my right to vote, and my access to the internet.
In fundamental ways, the daily 45 freak show is corrupting us all—eroding not just the political and social discourse, but also the very idea that this is a country that is fundamentally decent and capable of honor.
Happy Black Friday!
Dave Gjerdingen
Excuse me for even saying it, but have you heard of TDS?
ReplyDeleteI mean, look at this statement:"...he is challenging my mental health, and his party is coming for my health care, my mom’s nursing home fees, my right to vote, and my access to the internet."
I ask you, WHO is responsible for YOUR mental health, YOUR health care, YOUR mom, and YOUR internet access? If you want to cede all of those responsibilities to government, then you should not be quibbling about how they choose to provide them, in measure or style. And nothing so harms your (and my) right to vote as having millions of illegal votes being cast. Trump is trying to curtail it, yet you criticize him for seeking that desirable objective. I think I've found the problem "corrupting us all."
Jerry - Just in case Dave has is not familiar with TDS, let me help him out here. Trump Derangement Syndrome. It hits the Left very hard, and there is no cure so long as you live on the Left side of the street.
DeleteI think my TDS is about to be cured!
ReplyDeleteIf the dotard is not censured for is well known and self-admitted sexual improprieties, then the call from Flynn lawyer Robert Kelner to Trump attorney John Dowd on Wednesday evening is a potentially ominous sign for 45 and his close associates.
Before this week, Kelner had been communicating with lawyers for 45.
The split suggests that Flynn, who has been a top target of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and his team, may be looking to share information with the prosecutor and his team.
My hatred for the most ineffectual chief executive since Carter has few limits and will only be mitigated by his removal..
What a pity that you would look forward to damaging the country greatly, abandoning all the wonderful progress already made and to be made, just to satisfy some irrational hatred of a President freely elected by almost half of your fellow citizens. Where were you when Bill Clinton's "sexual improprieties" were under fire?
ReplyDeleteI was enjoying watching Clinton enact intelligent fiscal policy, transforming a national deficit of $290 billion 1992 to a national surplus of $ 236.4 billion by 2000.
ReplyDeleteHe increased taxes on the upper middle class and large corporations.
Ending subsidies for some companies and generally reforming the tax code,
Clinton raised huge amounts of money for the government.
Smart spending cuts then made sure that it would save instead of racking up debt. This created the largest national surplus in America’s history.
The President does not appropriate money. You may thank Mr. Newt for the financial success of that period.
DeleteGuess we could use another Newt to accomplish something similar.
DeleteInterestingly enough in the current Pervnado climate, remember that Democrats ran Mr. Newt off for "sexual improprieties," and then did the same to his successor. Any policy improvements or even debate got lost in this surge of political dirty laundry-hanging.
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