Status Report: Al Franken

[Asher]

I thought it was a joke that he was elected.

But everything I've read about the guy and what he's been doing in the senate seems extremely positive. He seems to actually be doing work...reading studies, etc.

Has he been a good senator? What idiotic things has he done?

I just finished watching this take-down, titled "It Doesn't"

[Asher]

BTW, that idiot he's talking to was recently named by the Republicans to their Presidential Debate committee.

Why was the committee created? The librul media spreading lies! Not like he does...amiright?
On why the RNC made the committee:

“they thought, why should we expose our candidates to the lefties in the mainstream media who will ask questions designed to put a wedge between each of the candidates and embarrass them, make them look a little bit less than presidential, given the bias of the media?”

[DaShi]

He's certainly motivated. But he'll never sway conservatives without base emotional appeal.

[Hauldren Collider]

Al Franken's a good comedian and a mediocre senator. He's above average for a Democrat in my opinion. You know, he barely won the election.

[Cort Haus]

The hockey-riots are long gone. Asher should reinstate his proper avatar.

[giblets]

Al Franken's a good comedian and a mediocre senator. He's above average for a Democrat in my opinion. You know, he barely won the election.

Yeah... he barely beat the incumbent. That's not really a bad result. But good effort, congratulations on finally making a post that contains a verifiable fact to support your claims.

[Asher]

The hockey-riots are long gone. Asher should reinstate his proper avatar.

[OzzyKP]

I haven't followed him too closely, but everything I've noticed has been good.

Clearly we need more entertainers in politics. I heard Fraiser is considering a run for Senate.

[Berzerker]

Yeah... he barely beat the incumbent. That's not really a bad result. But good effort, congratulations on finally making a post that contains a verifiable fact to support your claims.

how does his narrow win support anything else he said?

[Aeson]

He's good enough, he's smart enough, and doggone it ... people like him!

[OzzyKP]

Also, he's not bad at drawing the US free hand:

[Darius871]

I thought it was a joke that he was elected.

But everything I've read about the guy and what he's been doing in the senate seems extremely positive. He seems to actually be doing work...reading studies, etc.

Has he been a good senator? What idiotic things has he done?

I just finished watching this take-down, titled "It Doesn't"

Even though he's 100% right and that dip**** is 100% wrong about the semantics, frankly I'd be surprised if the actual sample of "nuclear" families in that study wasn't entirely comprised of husband-wife pairings notwithstanding a broad definition that they'd assumed would be read in the traditional sense. Leave it to neither of them to bring up the actual sampling details, which any study worth a damn would have put right there in black and white. A truly effective senator would find any actual gays in the sample or at least follow up with a study that was actually directly on-point, of which there must be many by now. Then again, I say this on the basis of no knowledge whatsoever as I despise the social sciences and am not about to slog through that mire any further. Fortunately Franken's there to do it for me.

[Darius871]

What idiotic things has he done?

Just gaffes in the single digits IIRC, nothing serious. These are a few mild but amusing examples:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704164904575421392316613162.html

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/121613-franken-commits-another-gaffe-while-presiding-over-senate

[Dinner]

Wow, he accidentally said someone was from Utah when they were from New Mexico and then he corrected himself and apologized. How the heck did some editor decide that was news worthy? It must have been a very slow news day.

[Asher]

Even though he's 100% right and that dip**** is 100% wrong about the semantics, frankly I'd be surprised if the actual sample of "nuclear" families in that study wasn't entirely comprised of husband-wife pairings notwithstanding a broad definition that they'd assumed would be read in the traditional sense.

The author of the study appeared on MSNBC last night and confirmed Franken's understanding of the study. It only looked at having two parents, not their genders.