Twenty Democratic Senators Call On Franken To Resign

[DemocratSinceBirth]

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PER CNN

[NightWatcher]

1. Bye Al, you may not be 100% guilty but it's time to go.

It sucks that Roger Stone set you up, but it's a Brave New World and it's time for your replacement to be seated.

Please clean out your office by the weekend so as not to give the GOP a complaint of a double standard.

[FarPoint]

2. They can just go....

To Hell.

[kcr]

4. Yep. All four of them have lost my support.

Gillibrand in particular is a huge disappointment.

[spanone]

3. if all accusers / accusations carry the same weight, then Franken should resign when trump does.

franken has been accused

so has trump

so has roy moore....and he's about to possibly be elected to the very body they're trying to throw Franken out of.....

[FarPoint]

6. We are at war!

You don't seem to be able to look outside the box....We are definitely at War.

[LakeArenal]

15. No not even if a miracle happened and Moore and dump resigned.

AL FRANKEN... DO NOT RESIGN. DON'T. (sorry to yell, but please, DO NOT RESIGN.

[rock]

21. Or as I like to put it

Trump: Rapist/Sexual Molester
Roy Moore: Pedophile
Franken: Kissing Bandit

[Blaukraut]

5. McCaskill, Gillibrand, Hirono, Hassan n/t

[triron]

7. wtf! Tell Trump to resign godammit.

[gratuitous]

8. Thank you for your concern

But there are no credible accusations against Sen. Franken, and the people of Minnesota deserve to have both of their elected Senators serving them.

[Agschmid]

9. 6, not 4.

[Miigwech]

10. WTF ... and they will seat Roy Moore if elected

This is getting way insane for me to follow ...... give Franken an ethics hearing first before kicking the man out.

[woolldog]

11. Dems continue to eat their own.

The GOP is supporting Moore getting elected, despite credible allegations that he sexually assaulted an underage girl.

The Dems are calling on Franken, who at worst squeezed a couple of asses, to resign.

[kcr]

12. Makes me so mad. Fuck every last one of them.

I hope it comes back around on them.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

13. WELLLLLLP.

[Joe941]

14. Al is becoming a distraction - probably time to go.

[LakeArenal]

16. Nope.

[CrispyQ]

17. What is it about the dems?

We eat our own. We never call the other side out, instead, I've heard democrats say that that is for the GOP to do, even as the GOP is happy to call out the dems. This is why the dems lose. They look weak & stupid.

[redwitch]

18. Have they called on Trump to resign?

This is fucked up.

[IADEMO2004]

19. Trump and GOP destroying every good thing in the US and we have to shoot ourselves in the head?

All things are not equal All things are not black or white. Every infraction should not result in the death penalty.

Keep Al.

[Oneironaut]

20. I agree. Sorry.

This has become a distraction. One accuser would be survivable. Over five accusers (or whatever the total is) is a pattern. There are many other potential Democratic politicians that could fill Al Franken's seat. It's time to do some house cleaning, imo.

[Bleacher Creature]

26. You're not alone.

I've been a huge fan of Franken for a long time - even before his AirAmerica days - but enough is enough. As much as I respect Al, I also respect the 10 women in the Senate who are calling for him to step down.

And yes, of course the same needs to be said about Trump and all of the Republicans who've been accused of misconduct, some of which was way worse than Franken. But if Republicans don't hold their own members to the same standard, it is what it is, which is exactly the reason why we need to be better than them.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

29. My two cents

GOP voters know Republicans are Deplorable and vote for them in spite of it. Our pitch is "Vote for us, we aren't Deplorable." This will move a few people who are on the fence. But to make that pitch you have to walk the talk

[Bleacher Creature]

32. I think that makes a lot of sense, and I may even go a step further.

When the Access Hollywood tape came out, conservative women did exactly as you suggested. They knew that he was deplorable, but dismissed it as "boys will be boys" behavior. It's what Trump was trying to communicate by calling it "locker room talk."

But among deplorable men, I would venture to guess that the tape helped Trump. His entire campaign was about putting that "uppity Clinton woman" in her place and, by extension, all women.

We are inherently better than them, and it sucks to see people like Franken be held to a different standard. But Franken did even some of what he's accused of, which seems pretty likely, he needs to go because, as you noted, we need to walk the talk.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

34. I think at the end of the day some folks in the middle won't countenance bad GOP behavior.

The Deplorables are beyond redemption or conversion.

[Greybnk48]

22. Bullshit! Ride it out Al! n/t

[MFM008]

23. We worry about "DISTRACTION"

"Moral superiority" and the" highground."
Republicans worry about
WINNING
and writing the bills that are RUINING
Our lives and the world.

Great plan.

[R B Garr]

24. Isn't the "revolution" behind this to promote Keith Ellison?

[ret5hd]

27. Yes.

[ansible]

25. So this is what cannibalism looks like nt

[AlexSFCA]

28. I am ashamed by the weakness

of democrats. They can be baited by alt right so easily. They are propagating false equivalencies. I don’t recall 10 dem senators calling on trump to resign. They treat members of own party worse than much guiliter reps. Good luck in 2018, demoralizing the party instead of uniting it.

[EffieBlack]

30. Where in the hell is this coming from all of a sudden?

Do these people really think that if we force out Al Franken, Alabamians will reject Roy Moore?

Stupid. Just effing stupid.

[demmiblue]

31. Gillibrand, McCaskill, Murray, Hassan, Harris, Baldwin, Stabenow...

Hirono, Casey, Donnelly, Brown.

I don't know what to think right now. I feel numb.

[WoonTars]

33. WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO DEMAND THE SAME FOR TRUMP?

Whoopie!!! It's 'circular firing-squad' time kids!!!