Posted on 12/12/2017 9:14:48 PM PST by Kaslin
Frankin will not resign.
20 quatloos
So old Al is pretty much a dumper of a senator.
Yep! Franken pledged to resign when everyone thought Moore would win. They didn't want him muddying up their ethics investigations.
I expect he'll un-resign at some point before the end of the year.
“...while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the Oval Office, and a man who has repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the Senate with the full support of his party.”
two twisted truth/context statements (Dem talking points) in one sentence. Fraken must be proud of himself - good little pawn he is.
Well, since the FR echo chamber seems unanimous on this I’ll be the usual contrarian: Franken will be out of the Senate before the State of the Union speech.
One silver lining of Moore’s loss is that Franken loses that bargaining chip. And the Democrats will overplay their hand like they always do now, and will toss Franken under the bus in hopes of getting Trump. Franken backing down on his promise to resign will not be permitted. Besides, they’ll get a nice shiny new Democrat who maybe isn’t as big a jerk.
Actually, since moore didn’t win, Franken is out,
BFD, Franken can stay for all I care, the bottom line is the Rats gained a seat whether Franken stays or goes.
you ain’t alone. That’s how I saw and see it.
Franken’s seat is a “safe” Dem seat, so throwing him under the bus means nothing to them. He’ll just be replaced by another Dem. No harm to them at all, but they get to claim moral high ground.
It will be funny to watch, though, if he does not agree to go under the bus.
Franken won’t resign.
He’ll say after talking it over with his family and his supporters, he will stay in Senate.
It wouldn’t surprise me if he runs for reelection.
As much as I loathe him and his politics, I think he got a bad deal here. Really, what kind of behavior should one expect from a vulgar comedian.
I’m trying to figure out what he gets for taking one for the team.
He will resign in 20 years.
One tiny quibble. Franken didn’t win the 2008 election. Norm Coleman lost it. Coleman was ahead in the polls by double digits until he announced that he was going to vote for the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. That moved enough voters to switch to the third party candidate — Libertarian? Reform Party? Who cares? — to put the election within reach for Franken, who won in the recount, thanks to a bunch of ballots that were found in the trunk of a car in Duluth, or some such stupid s**t.
Franken stole the 2008 election fair and square.
I expect him to raise the stakes - he won't resign until BOTH of the people he cited in his "resignation speech" are gone.
That would be Moore and Trump.
The bimbos will come fast and furious now, accusing Trump. All lies but that doesn't matter now. MSNBCNNWPNYT will shout it every 20 minutes until everyone either believes or is cowed into submission.
Searching before posting isn’t Kaslin’s strong suit. Still, he does a good job and I’d rather have him miss a few than stop posting.
The Democrat Plan all along - joined by many never-Trump Congressmen and Senators- was to tie up his entire term in one salacious made up scandal after another. Even if the scandals go nowhere they take up all the attention and garner all the public interest. At the same time, Trumpcan get next to nothing through a Congress that largely hates him.
It’s kind of funny in a sick way...the Democrats traded Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Old Conyers and Franken to gain a Senate seat and supercharge their next attack on Trump. And the only thing Trump will get through Congress in his entire first term will be the not universally popular tax cuts.
They still want to use this on Trump, the Dems already set up some accusers so Franken will still go to keep the notion going Trump needs to step down “because Franken did the right thing too”.
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