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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf this shit I'm reading here regarding Franken is correct
being pushed out by Schumer, Gillibrand etc. I'm done , seriously done. We have fucking killed ourselves and our chance to win an election ever again.
Irish_Dem
(47,382 posts)Something is going on behind the scenes, that much we know.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)kacekwl
(7,021 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,382 posts)And made apologies. So he is on a different page then most of us.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)by our side ro resign. Why don't they want the investigation to proceed?
Irish_Dem
(47,382 posts)lunamagica
(9,967 posts)sets a bad, dangerous precedent.
Irish_Dem
(47,382 posts)RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,382 posts)ChubbyStar
(3,191 posts)YOU said he resigned and he has not. Who is the WE you mention?
FarPoint
(12,437 posts)Think that if they clean house, GOP will also follow path...Democrats can say...see, we did it...If they don't, then this will be a campaign confrontation issue to gain 2018 control....I find it a weak hand and a blind roll of the dice.
Bengus81
(6,932 posts)If they are so STUPID as to think that if Franken steps down the CONS will demand that Moore halts his campaign then they are as stupid as they look.
Bannon and O'keefe are laughing their ASSESS off on how easy this operation was.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)to sell them.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,895 posts)"I know something you don't know" is a child's taunt.
And I realize you're not claiming to know something, but suggesting the Senators forcing Franken out really do know something they're keeping quiet strikes me as highly improbable.
lame54
(35,321 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,382 posts)FarPoint
(12,437 posts)The relationship between Congressional Democrats and their grassroots backbone supporters has hit the wall.. ....over...I am done...Yea..done
Renew Deal
(81,871 posts)So today is everyone's chance to call for his resignation. It's staged
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)The Progressives have touted Al as Presidential Timber. Secondly,there is a faction that hates Al from his Air America Days.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Oh, and the sexual harassment
spotthebird
(171 posts)Where is the actual evidence of credibility of the claims.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Those women he didnt kiss? Dont forget the he didnt kiss me but he wanted to sexual harassment. Hes been accused of NOT kissing someone. Twice. When coupled with the he put his hand around my waist when we took a picture assault.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)She didnt actually kiss me, but I could tell she wanted to. And when we shook hands that time, she squeezed, which is clearly groping (according to The Atlantic).
She should step down.
lostnfound
(16,189 posts)RandiFan1290
(6,242 posts)Egnever
(21,506 posts)They put on a show of fighting against it one day in the senate and turned right back to talking about peepees.
The week this bill is going to be rammed through this is their focus?
Seriously?
GentryDixon
(2,958 posts)and told them the same thing. These weak kneed Dems need to learn to fight for our party instead of giving in to the right wing media machine.
Let the Ethics Committee finish their investigation. I'm too old for this shit, but feel like I need to speak up. And I am a female who worked in an environment of male dominance. Let the true facts out. Don't throw our members overboard until we know the true facts. What Sen Franken has admitted to seems nothing other than comedic horseplay. Let's find out from the "anonymous" women when discovery comes about. If it proves out, then it will time for the Senator to go.
Bengus81
(6,932 posts)FarPoint
(12,437 posts)Could not find an unsubscribe area...Any tips?
GentryDixon
(2,958 posts)I have sent money to Doug Jones through his website. I have not supported Dem candidates through the DNC since Debbie Wasserman-Schultz leadership. That way I choose who my support goes to.
FarPoint
(12,437 posts)I didn't see it earlier.
RiverStone
(7,228 posts)Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)I give up. I have donated my last dollar, I have worked on my last campaign.
Our leadership in the house and senate is bankrupt, our presidential stable is full of people with little prospect of performing better electorally than Clinton did in 2016 and our only manifest strategy is waiting for the Republicans to self-destruct.
It's going to take a generation to recover from the rout that is coming.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Mustn't speak ill of a Democrat(s) around here.
Irish_Dem
(47,382 posts)Was he railroaded into it, or does he have personal reasons for resigning.
LisaL
(44,974 posts)So that makes it really hard to figure out why he would resign.
I mean, I just can't understand why he would resign when his own party is demanding he does so.
Irish_Dem
(47,382 posts)I don't know the answer to that question.
CK_John
(10,005 posts)Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)Appeasing some middle ground they think will love them for it. Pelosi just this afternoon in response to the impeachment brought to a vote by house Democrats says now is not the time. So you see, now is never the time to make a stand, not against Trump, and not in support of Franken.
Alea
(706 posts)My hope, it happening now might be better than right before the 2018 Elections. I don't know though. I don't know anything anymore. Maybe I never did : (
Orsino
(37,428 posts)...and have always expected women on our side to fall in line with the party. Always by sacrificing their human dignity and rights. Always, always, always.
Let's not do that anymore, I say. Let's sacrifice political advantage to try to do right.