Posted on 10/13/2013 7:24:08 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
ST. PAUL, Minn. — With just a few days left before the federal government's supply of cash runs dangerously low, Minnesota's U.S. Senators remained in Washington for the weekend.
In a speech on the Senate floor, DFL Sen. Al Franken said the government shutdown and debt ceiling showdown have distracted lawmakers from vital issues such as education and job training.
"Every day that government stays shut down, every day we wake up under the threat of default, every day we spend focused on something that isn't spent working together to create jobs and rebuild the middle class is, in my mind, a tragedy," Franken said.
Congressional Republicans have mostly backed off their demands that the 2010 healthcare law be significantly altered before the government is reopened or the borrowing limit raised. But the two parties are still at an impasse over government spending levels.
I personally wish our government would stop all work. Every time they pass some law, we have another shovel full of dirt tossed on us. Getting hard to breathe.
It almost makes stealing the election not worth it.
Progressive are the champions of the Planned Economy. In Al’s socialist mind, the economy. neigh the society, doesn’t function without the Planner making decisions about outcomes. In Al’s mind, that role needs to be his and those that think like him.
We often forget that socialism is a perversion of the ends of government and only in funding a financial and economic system. It is first and foremost government empowered to do things to bring about chosen end results for social purposes.
If anyone thinks this limousine liberal and guy-who-made-a-lving-from-vulgarity-and-mocking is concerned about regular American families, I have some swampland in Florida to see you for a great price!
Deciding how much to spend and on what is one of the most important job the Congress has isn’t it?
Critical work? Oh Al you're such a comedian.
he’s such a comedian
As though a clown like Franken can “create” a job. The only job he’s created is the worthless one he has.
Isn’t he up for re-election?
Who’s running against him — besides some 3rd party wack-jobs.
Weird but I don’t remember the buffoons up on Capitol Hill doing anything about “education” and “jobs training” BEFORE the shutdown and debt ceiling fiasco either. Franken is an idiot.
The Senate is a joke with guys like McCain and Frankenstein.
Frankenstein is a total moronic clown and a testament to the horribly Low IQ of the people who voted for him in Minnesota. They are brain frozen imbeciles. There is no hope for them They voted foe Caliglia’s horse. I can’t keep from belly laughing when I see this retard. press on
Critical work? Oh Al you're such a comedian.
Once a clown, still a clown. Never very funny, though.
In America, today, even a clown can become a U.S. Senator.
We already gots plenty-o-law.
Yeah if they took it seriously. As it stands laws are created to increase their power base or pay back lobbyists. They do nothing but screw up the country.
Harry Reid let Franken talk? Old Al must have finally put a nice shine on Harry’s shoes.
Al Franken May Have Been Elected to Senate by Voter Fraud, Study Suggests
I just wish it didn't look like one of my favorite TV characters, Dr. Walter Bishop of "Fringe."
Photo caption.
“Why do they call them ‘M & Ms’? Shouldn’t they just call them ‘Ms’? So much important stuff to think about. Did I zip up my pants this morning?”
The fact that this turd is in the US Senate is a disgrace to the nation.
Well they say “It Ain’t over till the Fat Lady Sings”.
Do Sinatra/Judy Collins singing “SEND IN THE CLOWNS” count?
Now that we have heard from Franken for the first time since?? we must have officially hit bottom.
“Critical Work”
Would that be, like, robbing us at gun point, or selling our children into servitude, or spying on our every thought, or closing our public lands, or sending us to die defending foreign tyrants and terrorists, or dictating what toilets and light bulbs we can use, or setting up death panels, or . . . ?
That, is the best symbol of the dipsh!t party I’ve ever seen.
Glad you posted it!
WHAT DOES THIS JOKER KNOW ABOUT “CRITICAL WORK”?
Isn’t this the senator who has pictures of him self in diapers? What an undignified clod.
Another stolen vote scam, this idiot won by a few votes, and the R’s sat on their asses.
They let him win, because it was gerrymandered.
I HATE the GOPe.
First count, he lost, second count, he lost, 3rd count he won, and no challenges, no money for lawyers from the GOPe. The fix was in, like it always is.
LOL... pretty much
Woo! That Al Franken. Still hasn't lost his touch. Gosh, I wish he was back on Saturday Night Live.
No. Seriesly. I wish he was back on Saturday Night Live.
Franken’s big rubber nose is a biggest distraction.
Why don't you and your fellow legislators spend more time and brain power on job CREATING instead of job training?
Leni
Tom Emmer. Solid conservative, former Candidate for Governor (Dayton got elected the same way Franken did), and was part of a morning talk radio show here.
I’ve met Tom a couple of times and he’s the real deal.
Shoot. Scratch that. Tom’s running for Bachmann’s seat.
Looks like the MNGOP is doing the usual shuffle. Other than RINO Jim “the Enabler” Abler, I haven’t heard of many of them.
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