I can't believe Schumer and others didn't see this hit job

[SHRED]

This absolute railroading of Franken.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029946066

It makes me cynically suspicious and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
This is not good for our party.

What is the endgame here?

[rzemanfl]

1. The endgame is we get fucked over and die. n/t

[ananda]

4. Schumer actually wanted that?

Oh dear ... we are so fucked!

But Gillibrand and Warren were actually leading the charge.

They are a HUGE disappointment to me .. enough so that
I will never support either of them for anything ever!

[Glorfindel]

8. Indeed he did. See the article in Haaretz:

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/1.827287

[Rene]

39. I completely agree

[mythology]

40. I'm gobsmacked to see this on DU

Really, the devious Jewish guy screwed over his caucus member to bribe Trump to do something Trump wanted to do anyway. That doesn't pass the laugh test.

[Generic Brad]

3. This is not being holier than thou

This is being dumber then thee.

[dalton99a]

11. +1

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. It's much easier to swiftboat one of our own than...

...go after "Our friends across the aisle"

How I HATE that expression of his -- now more than ever.

[BannonsLiver]

6. I've never been one prone to alarmism.

I'm the guy who usually tells everyone at work it's going to fine when there's a problem people get freaked out about. We'll get through it. Tomorrow we will be better. etc. I knew Obama "had this" during some of his toughest moments in 2008, and during his presidency. I spent two hours talking my sobbing wife through her pain on election night. I told her about Kamala Harris and Gillibrand and others who might some day offer her hope.

But now, I just dunno what the end game is anymore. I'm disillusioned with our leadership. I think they lack the fortitude to handle the current crop of Trumpublicans who are savage to their core. And our culture has become so dumbed down, I have no faith in the silent majority to stand up and put an end to this in 2018 or 2020. We are in a very dark place, fighting for the soul of our democracy and i feel like we are losing badly.

[Pepsidog]

31. My thoughts exactly. Dems taking the House in 2018 is our only hope

I used to think Mueller was the answer. Now I think Mueller can have video of Trump committing treason and Trumpanzees don’t care and nothing will happen. With R’s support of Moore all hope of decency is gone. Only a win in 2018 will help us now.

[Docreed2003]

38. Im right there with you...

My wife and I were in tears election night. The next morning we woke up early to explain to our kids what had happened and to admonish them, no matter how upset they were not to show it in school...we live in a very red suburb of a blue island in a very red state. We promised them that there were people who would stand up and fight against Trump. While that part is partially true, it seems that Dems are all to willing to fall back on the standard practice of “eating our own” while refusing to stand up strongly against the GOP out of fear of being labeled as “liberal” or not bipartisan. I’m quickly losing hope that those in the current leadership of the Democratic Party share our same goals of resistance.

[oberliner]

7. I can't believe DU-ers are linking to an article by John Ziegler

John fricking Ziegler?!?

[DarthDem]

9. Yup

The alarmism and doomsaying in here isn't sufficiently off the chain; we need to have kookisms peddled now too.

[SHRED]

14. What in the article is inaccurate?

I'd like to know.

[SHRED]

21. He may be an asshole but...

...he links to here and spreads this vital info.

Link to tweet

[oberliner]

22. Here's him calling Rose McGowan "part of the problem"

Link to tweet

[brooklynite]

10. I'm sure a group of bloggers are much smarter than Senate Dem leadership...

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...and all of the Democratic Senate women.

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. Agreed, it appears that way.

[SHRED]

16. We do know one thing

They didn't want an Ethics Committee investigation.

[BootinUp]

12. They didnt give a shit as I previously stated

[The_Casual_Observer]

15. You are only now realizing this? It was obvious from the day

that woman started this shit, everything was known about her and her motive within the first few hours.

The other ones can't be any better.

[imax2268]

17. The latest accuser...

Was praising Franken on her twitter account the night it supposedly happened.

[SHRED]

18. This is another reason we needed an investigation

[Puzzledtraveller]

19. I think they did see it

that's all I will say.

[Raine]

20. Schumer sacrificed Franken

so the Dems could "go high".

[dflprincess]

25. Meanwhile they're falling all over themselves to welcome Bob Menendez back

giving him plumb committee assignments and endorsing his 2018 reelection bid....Assuming the next jury will also be hung.

Let's face, Al was always a threat to the Democratic establishment so it was easy for them to throw him under the bus.

[wisteria]

27. I agree.

What a joke about Mendez.

[Mr.Bill]

23. The endgame is

President Al Franken in 2020.

[Mr. Evil]

24. Because Al Franken isn't the corporate Dem

they want. Schumer is as much to blame as anyone that called for Franken to resign. They are all welcoming back Sen. Bob Menendez from a hung jury in his corruption trial. Why? Because they want to keep his corrupt ass in the Senate because if they ask him to resign then Chris Christie gets to pick his successor. Which would be a republican. They'd lose a seat. This is dirty politics because they know that the Minnesota governor will pick a democrat so they have nothing to lose seat-wise but they gain someone that they will be more able to control. Al Franken was knifed in the back by his own colleagues. As the saying goes, with friends like these who needs enemies.

[SHRED]

28. Then why did Sanders and Markey...

...call for Al to resign since they are to the left of Al?

[Mr. Evil]

32. Mob mentality maybe. I don't know. Do you?

Maybe they were promised something in some upcoming legislative package. Maybe they turned soft. Maybe they don't like Sen. Franken. It's politics as usual in this country. Dirty as ever.

[SHRED]

34. I don't know

[wisteria]

26. They new. They have decided in a losing strategy

And, Franken was the
Over in this. The D ms are weak and ineffective.

[mentalslavery]

29. I wonder if this will create a male backlash against us in 18.....

[demgrrrll]

30. Rick Wilson tweeted someone who says that there are 30 more Congress people

who are being investigated. Maybe there is a long game here.

[Nevernose]

33. Jerusalems reunification

The fiftieth anniversary of Jerusalem’s reunification.

Holy shit.

I can’t believe any thinking person — goyim or otherwise — would even say something like that? Anniversary of reunification? Fuck that.

But apparently the (relevant) stars have aligned — Saudi coup, Syrian revolution, who knows what in Lebanon, dismantling of Iraq and Libya, Jordanian complacency, Egyptian complacency (aided by multiple Hamas and ISIS attacks), Iranian marginalization, Trump-Russia collusion...

The pieces are finally all there.

[tavernier]

35. Devastating.

I feel like I’ve been blindsided and stabbed in the back, all at once.

[onecaliberal]

36. Youre in good company

[nocalflea]

37. Leaving the Dem faifthful in the dark about whats really going on here doesn't appear to be a winning strategy.

These pols need to check their rearview mirrors.

[Jakes Progress]

41. Remember that Schemer attacks Hillary

after the election. Just following what he thinks the polls say.