“Whether you’re a worker, a pensioner, a small business owner, a woman, a voter, or a person who drinks water, your rights are harder to defend today than they were five years ago.”
Sen. Al Franken, commenting on the activist Roberts Court
Al Franken Sketches Sessions During Kagan Confirmation Hearing
“Originalism only dates back a few decades…. It was Robert Bork who first popularized the notion…. Originalism isn’t a pillar of our Constitutional history; it’s a talking point.”
Sen. Al Franken
Energy North America founding partner Jack Coleman tells Sen. Al Franken that even if given hindsight he would NOT have agreed to a moratorium on drilling, thus avoiding the Gulf Coast oil leak disaster.
laughing, smiling sure but tons of “can’t stand ya” here
I cannot believe my eyes/ears. This must be an April fools thing.
BillO sticks up for Al Franken
“This is a perversion of the filibuster and a perversion of the role of the Senate,” “It used to be that the filibuster was reserved for matters of great principle. Today it has become a way to play out the clock.” - Sen. Al Franken.
Al Franken reprises a classic role in a bid to win a free fiber optic network from Google for a city he once mocked.
“At the end of it, as I was watching Senator Franken, I thought to myself: However this turns out, I’m good, I’m smart, and doggone it, people like me.”
David Axelrod, re: a heated exchange he had with Al Franken
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Sen. Al Franken ripped into White House senior adviser David Axelrod this week during a tense, closed-door session with Senate Democrats…
Five sources who were in the room tell POLITICO that Franken criticized Axelrod for the administration’s failure to provide clarity or direction on health care and the other big bills it wants Congress to enact.
The sources said Franken was the most outspoken senator in the meeting,
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Hillary and Al.
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“[People] wouldn’t be so confused if everyone was being honest and forthright about what’s in the bill.”
“I have heard a lot of misinformation over the last several weeks, some on the airwaves and unfortunately some right here on the floor. Very early on Monday morning, I heard a colleague on the floor say that this bill is going to add $2.5 trillion to our deficit. That’s simply made up.”
Sen. Al Franken said on Wednesday that Republican claims that the Senate healthcare reform bill will cost $2.5 trillion “are simply made up.”
John McCain’s fake outrage exposed by Rachel Maddow.
YOU LIE!
Franken v. Lieberman: What Really Happened
…And indeed, earlier in the day, when Sen. John Cornyn asked for more time for his speech, the presiding officer, Sen. Mark Bevich said virtually the same thing:
“In my capacity as a Senator from Alaska, I object.”
But the facts didn’t get in the way of the media’s — and the right-wing’s — efforts to paint Franken as a vindictive partisan.
The right-wing reaction was predictable. Blogger Ann Althouse called it a “dick move” and suggested a boycott of Minnesota. Michelle Malkin accused “nutroots hero Al Franken” of “a little snit fit against Lieberman.” Red State’s James Richardson accused Franken of “breaking from the Senate’s long-held standards of collegiality.”
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(via thedailywhat)
