Requiem for a Progressive
Senator Al Franken announced today that he "will resign from the Senate in the coming weeks". The coming weeks"? He really had no choice. Eight women had made allegations of sexual misconduct. In addition, democrats led by minority leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi were demanding his resignation.
Thursday afternoon Franken made an emotional, bitter & unapologetic statement in which he took cheap shots at the President and a Senatorial candidate in Alabama while expressing his regret at having to leave the Senate and audaciously calling himself "a champion of women"!!!! He gave some feint praise to his staff, which he had demeaned and treated so poorly during his time in the Senate.
This pathetic excuse for a human being must know he has been used as a sacrificial lamb by his fellow progressives. He was a liability and will be replaced by another democrat. The more important issue for the party is to position itself on the moral high ground for the 2018 mid-term elections. Two democratic congressmen facing so many allegations was too much baggage. If Roy Moore win in Alabama the democrats will spend the next year slamming the GOP and they need a clean house to do it.
I wonder how Franken must feel knowing that Trump is still President & Jeff Sessions is still the AG, yet it is he who must leave - in disgrace?
I cant write a fitting epitaph for this vermin so I will have to use the words of Sir Walter Scott:
"Breathes there the man with soul so dead,Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,As home his footsteps he hath turn'd From wandering on a foreign strand!
If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no Minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,Living, shall forfeit fair renown,And, doubly dying, shall go downTo the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung."
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Good Riddance
And they think they are taking the higher ground.