Is Franken being charged with a crime??

[cbdo2007]

I'm having a difficult time buying into these accusations as being a reason for his resignation unless he is charged with a crime and even then it should be up to the voters as long as he is eligible to run.

If not, where do we draw the line with moral behavior as being our litmus test for who our leaders are or not? Should we let someone who has lied to a spouse be a senator? How about someone who cheated on a test in high school? What about someone who travels too much for their job and never sees their kids? Or someone who takes the bus to work rather than drives their own car??

We are getting dangerously close here to setting a precedent that nobody can uphold, rather than letting democracy work the way it was intended. The saddest part of all is that the rules only seem to apply to Democrats and not Repubes so they are eventually going to wipe us all out.

[Vinca]

1. I've been suspicious of the Franken charges from the first woman and Al's remark that it wasn't

quite the way he remembered it. I also question the woman in the photo being taken by her husband. She seems awfully happy for someone allegedly being groped by a stranger. For all we know the anonymous accusers could be part of a James O'Keefe operation. I think it's really unfair and really, really stupid to let Franken go without a proper investigation.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. I agree. None of this makes any sense to me.

[4139]

3. When he made the apologies he essentially he tossed the rope to the crowd and the crowd

Turned into a lynch mob.

[delisen]

4. I didn't expect the Lynch mob to be democratic senators

[gratuitous]

5. I'll say it again

Gary Condit. It's all you need for a Democrat to lose his office. Shirley Sherrod. Sam Seder. The accusations can be totally false, spurious, taken out of context, willfully misunderstood, or just whispered about, and a liberal is gone.

If you want to remove a Republican, you'd better have videotape from at least three angles, crystal clear sound, four sworn affidavits, a letter from the Pope, and some deity's voice thundering down from the heavens.