I can hardly wait for Franken's first SNL appearance

[Jimbo101]

(Yes what happened today sucks - but I have to look for the humor in things

- we are definitely living in a fifth dimension bizarro world)

[Roland99]

1. I do not see him in the public eye again. At least not for a very long time.

[Neerav B. Trivedi]

4. I agree

He needs to lay low for the time being.......would be wise.

[Jimbo101]

5. You don't know Al Franken

Neither do I personally - but I've watched his career since he and Tom Davis were writers and appeared in skits on SNL.

Believe what you want - it's a free country.

[Roland99]

6. Seriously bad optics for a while

[OnDoutside]

8. The bad optics are towards the 38 who publicly knifed him. I'd love i someone did polling in

Minnesota as to whether Franken should have resigned, AND whether they would vote for him if he stood again in the Special Election.

[randr]

2. You will be much older and hopefully wiser

[lame54]

3. In the meantime...

Weekend Update will eat him alive

[UnTied]

7. Al hasn't resigned yet;

he said he would be doing so in the upcoming weeks. That means how many weeks? He can change his mind. He can easily play politics and say that there is more evidence of his innocence coming. Why not play politics with this if he is innocent? Shit, wanna play dirty, let's play dirty! He knows more than anyone what is going on, and if he is being railroaded, this buys time to prove it and cast more truth onto the picture.
Al is a fighter. It would be nice if he can prove that Roger Stone and the GOP are behind this. It may also shed a little light on how quickly Dems eat their own. Not that they would learn from it.

[Jimbo101]

9. Hear ya'

Franken will be fine - it's the party I'm worried about.

This can only embolden Roger Stone - his enablers haven't figured out what they've done yet.

- I agree that time will tell.