Tag Archive 'Al Franken'

These are the times when I really like John McCain

Al Franken, the rude buffoon from Minnesota deserved to be taken to task, and John McCain did it. The set-up:  Joe Lieberman ran out of time to finish his talk; he asked, as Senators do, for a couple of extra minutes; and Al Franken, who was chairing, refused, something Senators have never done:

The stakes in 2010

The National Republican Senatorial Committee puts out this timely public service announcement: I’ll echo Laer, at Cheat-Seeking Missiles (which gets the hat tip for this video):  “Yeah, I know the GOP is hardly perfect and has a ton of lessons to learn, but I have to say, this message motivates me to open my wallet.”

Everything that’s wrong with Al Franken….

….And everything that’s wrong with modern liberal political discourse is summed up in these two beautiful paragraphs that Michael Gerson wrote about Al Franken (emphasis mine): Our popular culture, of course, violates even these expansive boundaries of tastelessness with regularity. We laugh at comedies featuring the C-word, and at cartoons of foul-mouthed third-graders. In the [...]