Discussion: Al Franken Expected To Give Resignation Speech At 11:45 AM

He’ll resign. My wish is that he tells the Democratic Comcast Caucus to fuck off, that he’s staying and fighting for real Net Neutrality and against the ignominious so-call tax reform bill and the gutting of the CFPB. But that ain’t happening. Democrats run when they oughta fight and fight when they oughta deal, and lose, lose lose…

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Forget Net neutrality…that’s gone. It’s most powerful advocate is resigning today paving the way for ALL of America can get fucked. Reasonable for “groping a woman’s waist”. You get fucked. I get fucked. reasonable even though I groped no one. If the Democrats restrict themselves to only The Pure they can hang it up. I get that there’s a message to send…“we won’t tolerate it but the GOP will” but at what cost?

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If it turns out that many, if not all of these allegations were either grossly exaggerated or made up, will Gillibrand resign? After all, New York has a Democratic governor, so she’d be replaced by a Democrat, right?

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Yep, that’s all we do is lose, lose, lose. Throw in the towel, turn the lights off, we’re done for because Al Franken will be out of the Senate. The end of days is here.

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Ah speaking of rick rolled from yesterday and other thread today on Rs rick rolling their own on tax bill…Dems rick rolled again…Rs laughing, “Hey we did it again!, this is easy!” Meanwhile James O’Keefe gets award, wonder which of Al’s accusers are connected to him.

Oh well, maybe Al can do some good now that he’ll be free to speak out, write and what not.

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I am incredibly sad and MAD AS HELL. Senator Gillibrand? You are on my list. You don’t want to ‘have a conversation on what constitutes sexual abuse’ but BY GOD AND FEMINISM you know that it is ‘bad’. I’m sorry but I think you and many of the other women Congresspeople are doing this for a resume builder. You are not protecting women. You are making everything worse. In REGULAR offices where NORMAL women work men are afraid to TALK to them, interact with them, go on business trips or business dinners with them all because YOU DON’T WANT TO HAVE A CONVERSATION about what the hell YOU THINK sexual abuse or misconduct or harassment is. Again. I have been fighting this for 40 years and one damn thing I’ve always done is stand up for myself and not enabled other people to accuse without accountability. I sure as SHT have never destroyed a person’s career because he ‘squeezed my waist’ or some other cockamamie BS you’ve decided that ‘little women’ can’t ‘take’. You’ve made it all worse. This is not Tailhook and you are not some crusader. You don’t speak for me.

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Let’s oust Tom Perez and put Al Franken in charge of the DNC. Seriously. He would MAKE NOISE.

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I don’t think he’ll waste this opportunity to make a few points. Should be good, but won’t eclipse the fuckedness.

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Al leaves. Conyers leaves.

But Farenthold and Barton get to stay because Republicans are above the law. When Moore gets elected watch EVERY Republican in the Senate embrace him and kiss his ass!

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My thoughts exactly.

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Something enjoyable to watch while you wait.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/seth-meyers-donald-trump-law-order_us_5a28f21fe4b0fa79861214a9?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

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Your snark is oh so clever - but this is the person who made Robert Mueller’s investigation possible. How many other Democrats would’ve pushed Sessions? Did any even see the links? Probably not because they’re mostly pushing 80 … and I’m no youngster.

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Gee, I wonder what nefarious acts trump and Rs have scheduled for today while this shiny object is making the rounds.

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I am very sad that it has come to this.

I don’t think he’d be resigning if at least some of the allegations weren’t true. Still, I wish he would stay and go through the ethics process so we could hear both sides of the allegations.

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Take heart:
Texas journalist resigns to run for Pete Sessions’s House seat

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Damn straight. And this is thanks he gets for that.

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This is a tragedy. I can’t believe this is happening, but now we’re talking eight women with grope and grab stories. Hopefully Minn. Gov. Mark Dayton will appoint a great candidate for the seat.

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If he resigns I will resign from the Democratic party. I tired of associating with the “stupid” party.
Philip Hohl Milw Wi

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Remind me which party controls the Whitehouse, the Senate, and the House of Reprehensibles?

Democrats can’t and will not be able to do anything until the midterms. We have no–zero–power right now. We didn’t get rolled, the Republican’s are using their majority power to pass their agenda. To blame Democrats for that is mystifying.

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