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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is as angry as I've seen Al Franken --- calls Jeff Sessions' response letter insulting
Grassley accuses Franken of asking Jeff Sessions a gotcha question about Russia contactsFranken: Look at the tape, Mr. Chairmanplease
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This is as angry as I've seen Al Franken --- calls Jeff Sessions' response letter insulting (Original Post)
kpete
Mar 2017
OP
Republicans like Grassley are gonna sit there and watch America be destroyed
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2017
#2
Sessions offered his lie all by himself. The question had nothing to do with it
underpants
Mar 2017
#3
dchill
(38,532 posts)1. I could easily get used to saying...
"President Franken."
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)2. Republicans like Grassley are gonna sit there and watch America be destroyed
they are republicans, by definition this means they dont have the backbone, honesty, decency not to.
underpants
(182,879 posts)3. Sessions offered his lie all by himself. The question had nothing to do with it
FRANKEN asked him very nicely and it was an open ended question for the most part.
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)5. When even have the video
of his aide without the poker face reacting to the answer.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)4. Calling out conservative liars usually upsets them...
progressoid
(49,999 posts)6. Grassley, FUCK YOU!
There, I translated Al for you.
rock
(13,218 posts)7. Franken is right to be angered
Sessions replied in his letter back to Al with a non-sequitur. He answered a question that was not asked of him and he lied about it. The fact that he was not asked that question is beside the point. That incidentally is why lawyers tell you to not volunteer testimony.