Democratic Clown Al Franken Sleeps and Doodles during Kagan hearings

[muman613]

Al Franken will always be a clown in my mind. Stories like this make me wince because America should have representatives who actually care and put in an effort to do the job they are elected to. I dont think any person who works at a profession would keep their jobs if they napped and doodled during such important events.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/29/sen-al-franken-naps-draws-cartoons-kagan-hearings/



Sen. Al Franken Naps, Draws Cartoons During Kagan Hearings
By Joseph Abrams
Published June 29, 2010 | FOXNews.com

He's good enough, he's smart enough, but doggone it — he just can't keep his eyes open for Senate confirmation hearings.

Al Franken, the onetime comedian and current Democratic senator from Minnesota, used his position on the vaunted Judiciary Committee on Tuesday to doodle a lifelike bust of Sen. Jeff Sessions, the committee's ranking Republican, as Sessions raked Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan over the coals.

But it wasn't all fun and games for the former "Saturday Night Live" star — Franken also found time to get in a good nap during the first day of hearings Monday.

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[דוד בן זאב אריה]

This sounds like regular al to me

[MasterWolf1]

The entire DNC is a cartoon. 

[Ari Ben-Canaan]

What a loser.

[HiWarp]

What a loser.

Whose the loser, Al Franken or the Minnesotans who elected him?

[Christian Zionist]

He won by some 700 votes because of ACORN fraud.  Didn't they discover 200 votes in a truck?

[HiWarp]

He won by some 700 votes because of ACORN fraud.  Didn't they discover 200 votes in a truck?

Okay, there was probably fraud and he only won by 225 votes but there were still over 1.2 million people who legitimately voted for him.

[eb22]

He won by some 700 votes because of ACORN fraud.  Didn't they discover 200 votes in a truck?

A strong case can be made that the ACORN fraud in the U.S. Senate election in Minnesota is the difference why the United States is currently stuck with ObamaCare.   

[eb22]

He won by some 700 votes because of ACORN fraud.  Didn't they discover 200 votes in a truck?

Okay, there was probably fraud and he only won by 225 votes but there were still over 1.2 million people who legitimately voted for him.

It's safe to assume that the vast majority of the idiots  in the 5th Congressional District who voted for Al Franken,   also voted for Muslim Keith Ellison back in 2006 and 2008,   in the House of Representatives race.   

[Ari Ben-Canaan]

What a loser.

Whose the loser, Al Franken or the Minnesotans who elected him?

Good point.  Franken and any person stupid enough to vote for him, as well as the ACORN people.  I think, if I remember correctly, George Soros waged a campaign for a rarely noticed position in Minnesota gov't, Secretary of State [among the job tasks is "certifying" state elections], installing a man named Mark Ritchie who basically handed the race to Franken.  Devious, but highly effective, move.  So add Soros and Ritchie to the loser club.  People are going to have to pay attention to who runs for Secretary of State in their state more closely with Soros and ACORN around.

[Ari Ben-Canaan]

Here is a bit on it.  I am sure there are newer articles.

http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/acorn-mark-ritchie/2008/12/22/id/327265

ACORN, Soros Linked to Franken Vote Grab
Monday, 22 Dec 2008 09:22 PM
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By: David A. Patten

Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, who orchestrated the recount that gave Democratic challenger Al Franken a lead some six weeks after incumbent GOP Sen. Norm Coleman appeared to win by 725 votes on Election Day, has extensive ties to both the ACORN organization now under federal investigation for vote fraud, and to MoveOn.org ultra-liberal kingmaker George Soros.

In 2006, ACORN endorsed Ritchie in his bid to become secretary of state, and Ritchie also received a campaign contribution that year from Soros.

Indeed, Ritchie has credited his own political career in large part to an obscure, Soros-funded group called the Secretary of State Project (SoS), whose express purpose is to seed state election bureaucracies nationwide with partisan activists -- Ritchie among them -- who are strategically positioned to influence the outcome of close recounts like the one now underway in Minnesota.

The SoS Web site lauds Ritchie as “arguably the most progressive secretary of state in America,” and states: “Thanks to SoS Project donors, Minnesota’s Mark Ritchie – a true champion for Democracy – was able to defeat a two-term incumbent Republican by less than 5 points. We helped close the gap and make the difference with cable television ads targeting women and seniors.”

Nor does Ritchie downplay the role of the Soros-funded nonprofit in his own election win.

“I want to thank the Secretary of State Project and its thousands of grassroots donors for helping push my campaign over the top,” he states on the partisan political site.

Newsmax has learned that contributors to Ritchie’s 2006 campaign, which made him the No.1 official in charge of impartially supervising Minnesota recounts, is a veritable Who’s Who of partisans seeking to alter the outcome of elections, including:

# Soros. He donated $250, but perhaps more importantly, he funded organization’s essential to promoting Ritchie’s candidacy.

# Anne Chasnow, who donated $150. Chasnow is a longtime voter registration activist who listed her employer as ACORN.

# Drummond Pike, a well-known rainmaker for leftist organizations with extensive ties to ACORN, who along with a family member donated $500 to Ritchie.

# Deborah Rappaport, who donated $250. Her Rappaport Foundation underwrites progressive causes nationwide.

# James Rucker, the former director of grass-roots mobilization at MoveOn.org, and reportedly a co-founder of the Secretary of State Project. He donated $250 to Ritchie’s campaign.

The link to the SoS Project is a major reason Washington Times editor Peter J. Parisi has described Ritchie as a “hyperpartisan Democrat” – not exactly the calling card most states would seek in their chief election official.

SoS is funded in part through Soros’ contributions, according to Minneapolis Star-Tribune columnist Katherine Kersten. Kersten describes Ritchie as a “poster boy” for SoS, and Ritchie has proudly endorsed that organization’s efforts to sway the outcome of electoral contests nationwide.

SoS was founded after Democrats involved in George W. Bush’s narrow 2000 election victory blamed Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris for influencing the outcome. They also charged that then-Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell helped return Bush to power in 2004.

In response, SoS was created to target key secretary of state races nationwide – down ballot races that often can be impacted by even small amounts of money and assistance. So far they take credit for helping Democrats win those key jobs in New Mexico, Nevada, Iowa, Ohio, and, of course, in Ritchie’s Minnesota.

That Ritchie would be the prize protégé of the SoS is no surprise, given his own long history as a community organizer. In 2003, he led National Voice to register over 5 million new voters nationwide.

As ruling after ruling by the Ritchie-led State Canvassing Board has gone against Coleman, some are now openly questioning Ritchie’s influence.

“Mark Ritchie as we all know now is a hard-core liberal who was endorsed by ACORN and funded by ACORN,” Matthew Vadum, senior editor of CapitolResearch.org, a nonprofit think tank, tells Newsmax. “It’s not surprising that he has a permissive attitude toward the recount process.”

A few weeks ago, Vadum says, he expected Coleman to emerge the winner. But now he says Coleman’s chances are “diminishing daily.”

Franken has a 251-vote lead, but many thousands of votes remain to be counted.

“I think things are looking pretty grim. It’s pretty ominous for Coleman. What battle in the recount process has he won? It’s pretty hard for him to lose every single challenge, and yet go on to win the election,” Vadum says.

Kersten, a long-time observer of Minnesota’s political machinations, writes that it’s too soon to say whether Ritchie’s influence and resume will taint the credibility of the contentious recount.

“What we do know,” she writes, “is that the referee in the contest appears to be wearing the colors of one of the teams.”