“Another friendly reminder: Franken said he would resign but he hasn’t resigned yet. Believe it when you see him carrying his belongings out the door. “
And so what Franken needs at this juncture is for another couple of women to come forward with pics. Maybe we will then see Franken move up his departure date and go now.
Why has a special election not been scheduled for Franken’s seat or why has no name been put forth to replace him? Oh. Right. Because he’s not actually resigning.
Meanwhile, the real outrage is that $17 million of taxpayer money used to silence those with suits against DC pols and their staffs for hush money. Anyone who used taxpayer funds to silence accusers should be the ones who go. The list of them hasn't been released. It's gradually coming out, but only through leaks.
Include in who should go....anyone who knew about the federal money used to silence accusers.
Al Franken mentality is going to bring down popular pols who aren't bought and paid for. It's a way to justify the opposition to Roy Moore. It's all about us losing our rights to elect our politicians, and it's been going on way too long. (Murkowski, Lieberman, Cochran)
Franken did apologize early on when this broke around Thanksgiving. And he’ll be gone by the end of January.
So he resigns, preventing any investigation...then changes his mind in a couple weeks, calling it all a witch hunt against him.
He is playing games with us.
Inasmuch as Franken is not shuffling out the door lugging a cardboard box of memorabilia, the senate needs to fast track a summons before the Ethics Committee. The prospect of losing his senatorial pension package will dislodge him in short order.
Franken has told his story and he is sticking to it—no apologies and no admission of guilt. Why? So when he takes the cushy-do-nothing-high-paying-job that the left has waiting for him he can still maintain that he is pure as fresh fallen snow.
Franken knows that no democrat apology is sincere or actually worth a damn.
An apology should have no weight in covering up or otherwise obscuring the sin. An apology is not a release from guilt.
Franken is going to wait until the Alabama senate race is decided, if Roy Moore wins he will refuse to resign unless the Republican leadership refuses to allow Moore to get seated. It was easy to see this when he said he would resign in the coming weeks.