Al Franken, Profile In Courage

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.

 

 

23 thoughts on “Al Franken, Profile In Courage

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. The real story…

    …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”.

  8. 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?

  9. 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.

  10. The funniest part was “Ken Avidor” calling anyone else nasty or sleazy.

    Expert witness, Troy.

  11. 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.

  12. 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).

  13. Guess so Emery. You have yet to master multi-tasking: Cyber-stalking while trolling takes practice. Ask CreepyProf. (If you aren’t CreepyProf)

  14. 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….

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