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After quiet first months, Franken's sharp tongue emerges in Senate
« on: December 26, 2009, 09:25:42 AM »
Al Franken, the Democrat from Minnesota who won election to the Senate after a successful career as a comic and author, has begun to show the sharp-tongued side of his personality by ripping into GOP staffers behind the scenes.

Franken has worked diligently to keep a low public profile in Congress while focusing on wonky policy debates. But he has been unable to completely repress the fiery passion that made him a hero of the Democratic Party’s liberal base.

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Franken has surprised some of his colleagues behind the scenes by getting into heated tangles with GOP staffers.

One such exchange took place in Franken’s office during a recent meeting with Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and his aides.

Franken invited Corker to his office to discuss an op-ed that Corker penned in a Tennessee newspaper opposing an amendment Franken offered to a defense bill. The measure gave the employees of defense contractors who suffer rape or sexual assault at the workplace the right to sue in court.

The meeting quickly deteriorated when Franken began berating one of Corker’s aides, according to GOP aides familiar with the incident. Franken’s sally was so harsh that Corker told Franken to lay off his aide and direct the comments at him instead.

Franken’s tough approach came as a surprise because Corker scheduled the meeting to mend fences after Franken confronted him about the op-ed during an angry exchange on the Senate floor.

Another GOP staffer, an aide to a Senate Republican leader, found herself at the sharp end of Franken’s wit at a recent reception in the Senate’s Mansfield Room. The tongue-lashing took place at an event to celebrate the swearing-in of GOP Sen. George LeMieux (Fla.).

After the conversation began ordinarily, Franken started to grill the aide about what he sees as the failings of the GOP. Franken demanded to know why it had become the "Party of No" and had exaggerated facts in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, according to another GOP leadership aide.

A spokeswoman for Franken declined to comment on either exchange.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/73417-franken-shows-glimpses-of-sharp-tongue-behind-the-scenes
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Re: After quiet first months, Franken's sharp tongue emerges in Senate
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2009, 09:26:46 AM »
C'mon, did ANYONE really expect this guy to be anything besides an asshole embarrassment?
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Re: After quiet first months, Franken's sharp tongue emerges in Senate
« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2009, 09:27:45 AM »
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Franken has surprised some of his colleagues behind the scenes by getting into heated tangles with GOP staffers.

It takes a big man to berate lowly interns and staffers.
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Re: After quiet first months, Franken's sharp tongue emerges in Senate
« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2009, 11:02:32 AM »
All I know of the man is from looking over his books at the bookstore.  This small minded bullying on his part seems totally in character.
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Re: After quiet first months, Franken's sharp tongue emerges in Senate
« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2009, 04:31:50 PM »
"Al Franken, the Democrat from Minnesota who won election to the Senate after a successful career as a comic and author"

I beg to differ on that statment!
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Re: After quiet first months, Franken's sharp tongue emerges in Senate
« Reply #5 on: December 26, 2009, 04:56:22 PM »
Quote from: catsmtrods on December 26, 2009, 04:31:50 PM
"Al Franken, the Democrat from Minnesota who won election to the Senate after a successful career as a comic and author"

I beg to differ on that statement!

Yeah, there's a lot to argue with about that sentence. :-)
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Re: After quiet first months, Franken's sharp tongue emerges in Senate
« Reply #6 on: December 26, 2009, 05:06:28 PM »
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The meeting quickly deteriorated when Franken began berating one of Corker’s aides, according to GOP aides familiar with the incident. Franken’s sally was so harsh that Corker told Franken to lay off his aide and direct the comments at him instead.

That says it all...going off on a staffer who is not empowered to respond is the mark of a very small and petty man.

Will give Corker due credit as well for standing up for and protecting an employee.
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Re: After quiet first months, Franken's sharp tongue emerges in Senate
« Reply #7 on: December 26, 2009, 05:09:47 PM »
I think Corker has been pretty decent as a Senator.  Sure a lot better than another member of the Ford family.
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Re: After quiet first months, Franken's sharp tongue emerges in Senate
« Reply #8 on: December 26, 2009, 06:28:02 PM »
Quote from: Chris on December 26, 2009, 05:09:47 PM
I think Corker has been pretty decent as a Senator.  Sure a lot better than another member of the Ford family.


Little Ford would have been trying to climb into bed with Obama.... :uhsure:
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Re: After quiet first months, Franken's sharp tongue emerges in Senate
« Reply #9 on: December 27, 2009, 12:24:53 AM »
Franken didn't win the election. It was handed to him illegally by a count that treated his "potential" votes different than those of the other idiot, Coleman. The Voter Intent law is fawking stupid. It hands over the voters "intent" to be decided by a group of Libs. If you can't fill in a square, then you're not smart enough to vote. Period.

Franken is a moron and an embarrassment... nothing more.
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Re: After quiet first months, Franken's sharp tongue emerges in Senate
« Reply #10 on: December 27, 2009, 07:47:10 AM »
I don't know which is worse...him bullying the staffer in front of Corker...or blindsiding the staffer during the swearing in ceremony.

Either he's trying to get street cred with the DU/Kos/HuffPo crowd...or the ONLY way he can get his rocks off is to bully and intimidate people he deems "smaller" than he is.


Either way IMHO it's the signs of someone who's not really mentally stable.

What's next? Bullying someone civilian on a tour of the Capitol because they choose to have their picture taken next to the new Reagan statue in the Rotunda?
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