Al Franken, Profile In Courage
By Mitch Berg
It’s not quite like Then-Senator Messinger Dayton closing his Senate office back in 2005 and fleeing to Minnesota, leaving his staff and the rest of Congress to toil away under threat of terrorist attack.
But one wonders now a Minnesota native like Al Franken can show his face in public after his performance yesterday.
Minnesota’s junior Senator closed his office yesterday in the face of one of this season’s array of “Snowmageddons”.
Lights out!
And from what was Senator Franken protecting his staff?
This bit of wet, icy hell outside:
Politico reporter Byron Tau had photo of the sloppy carnage elsewhere in the District:
Somehow, I doubt Norm Coleman would have closed his office for this.
March 7th, 2013 at 12:04 pm
Norm might have closed his office, but he would have organized a pickup game of hockey in the Senate parking lot so constituents could still be heard.
March 7th, 2013 at 12:31 pm
Circumstances beg the question, was all the staff paid for the day?
March 7th, 2013 at 1:46 pm
Can we trade Franken for a Senator who can handle snow better? Say like Marco Rubio or John Cornyn?
March 7th, 2013 at 2:56 pm
What did he do that day? Was he hanging out with his Hollywood buddies?
You know, when crazy Al moved from NYC to Minnesota to run for Senate, he got a place in downtown Minneapolis. I would have been more impressed if he would have moved to Cass Lake or someplace like that.
March 7th, 2013 at 3:55 pm
You fellows have it all wrong. Al’s office closure was a satire of Time magazine’s worst Senator in history….same screwball low intelligence voters put into the Governor’s manse.
March 7th, 2013 at 5:32 pm
Hang on, Senator Franken, we’re sending in a St. Barnard with a brandy barrel tied around his neck….
March 7th, 2013 at 9:35 pm
Must be a slow “news” day at Shot in the Dark. The real story should be which brave soul will represent the GOP against Mr. Franken in 2014.
I’ve read a few these comments by “swiftee”. And as a result of not being familiar with Mr. Swift, I did a quick and dirty Google of “swiftee”.
This particular image is worth the proverbial “thousand words”. It definitely puts all his comments into perspective
http://tinyurl.com/bdy3rpn
March 7th, 2013 at 10:24 pm
Yes it does…
March 8th, 2013 at 5:25 am
Emery, threadjacking as always, states:
Must be a slow “news” day at Shot in the Dark. The real story should be which brave soul will represent the GOP against Mr. Franken in 2014.
If you want to determine what the real story is, you should write your own blog. Good grief.
March 8th, 2013 at 6:42 am
I would expect that is what you would take away from this, Emery! I mean we all know that you are a liberal and all for spending money that isn’t there, but in a cases like this one; a blatant waste of money, not to mention the fact that Stuart Smalley taking and unauthorized day off, should tick you off. Besides, the government has built enough paid days off into their work year.
March 8th, 2013 at 6:50 am
…on this blog, is whatever is say it is.
And re Swiftee – you’re just figuring this out?
I don’t endorse all of Swiftee’s positions, but he’s right on all the things that matter. Including most of the people he’s “flipped off”.
March 8th, 2013 at 6:51 am
I believe you’re supposed to drink the tea, not free-base it.
March 8th, 2013 at 7:03 am
Um…huh?
March 8th, 2013 at 9:25 am
Emery, if you’re getting high freebasing tea, can I suggest “decaf”?
Thanks!
March 8th, 2013 at 9:49 am
So you’re cyber stalking me Emery? Imagine my surprise.
Here’s what ya do, pal. First, use your mad skills to stalk up a picture of Johnny Cash flipping you off. My tribute picture was attached to a blog post I wrote about 8 years ago.
Next, hold Leslie’s hand and look at the picture again. Look into my eyes. Get the message?
March 8th, 2013 at 1:00 pm
Ha! I followed the link Emery posted and I had to laugh.
Worth 1000 words? I think the two words swiftee communicated were pretty clear. Again, it doesn’t surprise me that Emery found that confusing.
The funniest part was “Ken Avidor” calling anyone else nasty or sleazy.
March 8th, 2013 at 3:52 pm
The funniest part was “Ken Avidor” calling anyone else nasty or sleazy.
Expert witness, Troy.
March 8th, 2013 at 3:59 pm
I think it’s time I update my photo. I don’t think my expression accurately displays the increased hatred I’ve accumulated for stinking leftist shitbirds in the last 8 years.
Plus, I just bought a killer cowboy hat.
Maybe if I e-mail one, Mitch will post it for Emery to savor.
March 8th, 2013 at 4:29 pm
Squirrel, shouldn’t the St. Bernard be carrying cocaine, not brandy?
March 8th, 2013 at 5:18 pm
Next up for Emery after he runs out of rhetoric is for him to post your real name (though, truth to tell, the times that I’ve met swiftee it’s never occurred to me to call him anything but that).
March 9th, 2013 at 7:10 pm
Have I missed all the brouhaha?
March 10th, 2013 at 11:10 am
Guess so Emery. You have yet to master multi-tasking: Cyber-stalking while trolling takes practice. Ask CreepyProf. (If you aren’t CreepyProf)
March 10th, 2013 at 8:42 pm
I was wrong. Your jpg doesn’t do your comments justice. Although you do have a somewhat of a vague Harvey Keitel thing going on….