"selfishly, i will miss frannie's amazing homemade pies" --sheldon whitehouse

[orleans]

https://www.c-span.org/video/?438860-101/senator-al-franken-delivers-farewell-address



Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.
"Given what we have learned in recent weeks, I expect Senator Franken to step aside."

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/06/568832606/franken-under-pressure-as-group-democratic-senators-call-for-him-to-resign


you can see franken giving sheldon a handshake and hug after whitehouse gets done talking

al and durbin also hugged after durbin got done heaping praises on franken for being such a great guy.

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., No. 2 Democrat in the Senate
"Senator Franken's behavior was wrong. He has admitted to what he did. He should resign from the Senate."

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/06/568832606/franken-under-pressure-as-group-democratic-senators-call-for-him-to-resign

[flotsam]

1. Selfishly, given the chance,...

I would like to stick a broom so far up their asses they looked like unicorns...

[orleans]

2. LOL +1 (well said)

[JimBeard]

3. I have never thought about it that way.

[spooky3]

4. Franni should throw a cream pie in his face.

[brooklynite]

6. Feel-good righteous anger that burns bridges with his former colleagues?

Perhaps there's a reason Franken has been a successful politician and you haven't.

[spooky3]

9. Thank you so much for your career advice.

[brooklynite]

10. Anything I can do to help.

[OnDoutside]

5. Sick stuff.

[Hortensis]

7. "As sexual harassment persists as a national flashpoint, Capitol Hill

has come under scrutiny as a breeding ground for this kind of behavior. A concentration of the nation’s most powerful men and women, congressional staffers and lawmakers have been hearing rumors of bombshell sexual harassment reports to come, possibly implicating upward of 20 or 30 lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.

The notion has raised an important question in a body known for being both archaic and arcane, especially on matters of transparency and accountability: Will Congress be able to credibly address sexual harassment against its own members? (Vox)

Some 3/4 of our Democratic senate caucus felt Senator Franken NEEDED to resign. (The one hypocritically denouncing it so noisily is conservative WV senator Joe Manchin.)

The Democratic Party had to take a very firm stand against sexual harassment. Franken himself knows why he had to resign. He could have waited for the investigation of 8 charges of she-said/he-apologized-and-partly-denied, which would have been given blanket sensationalized coverage by the national press over several days, possibly exploding into a whole new holocaust as the other charges they expect came out. All of this a giant gift to the GOP, distracting from genuine GOP crimes, including their support for victimizing women.

Those of you who are swept up in this insidious hostility toward almost all our Democratic senators should at least wonder who is behind it.. Those who get that far should then wonder how they personally ended up hauling water for the GOP and Russia.

[orleans]

11. some of those of us who are pissed off

wonder why the fuck these people never grew a spine

[Vinca]

8. If you want pie you have to support due process.