Calling for resignation without investigation was dumb politics.

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95. In a bad situation, that last is exactly what we did.

You're in the middle of this and and have cast our Democratic Senators as unprincipled people, but we came out of those 3 weeks of national witch hunting having taken a famous stand against sexual harassment.

Of course our enemies saw the danger to them here and are pushing the idea that our politicians are too dirty to recognize a principle if they stumbled over it. You should not believe them.

If you insist on agreeing, though, at least understand that the hugely publicized events of December in both parties, part of a national frenzy of sexual predation exposures, were witnessed by 100 million women voters, the vast majority of whom care about the issue and only vaguely recognize Sen. Franken as an ex-comedian.

You know, Franken himself initially said he was embarrassed and ashamed of his actions. We know he was a fine senator for women and also that just maybe he contributed to what ended his career, but in the end he did what was right for them and our country. He helped draw a line, a little late and imperfect but definitive nevertheless.

Franken:

"I, of all people, am aware that there is some irony in the fact that I am leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the Oval Office, and a man who has repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the Senate with the full support of his party,"

An accuser:

"That's one party being better on women than the other party."