Yay--Al Franken is in the house

[The Blue Flower]

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[Lotusflower70]

1. Ah yeah!

Go Senator Franken Go! He is so good with the questioning.

[Jno_Gilmor_]

2. He really is.

[stopbush]

3. Al is now asking the questions.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. K&R! Exactly what this hearing needs!

[Alice11111]

5. We can count on him to cut to the heart, right through the BS

[luvallpeeps]

6. Comedy

Remarkable how comediennes have contributed so much to the political discourse. We get better info and discussion from the political satire shows than from FOX. sad. God bless Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert, etc. I do miss Jon Stewart, but he deserves his respite.

[Brother Buzz]

8. Franken attended Harvard where he majored in government, graduating cum laude before...

he delved into comedy. It's pleasant to see and hear an intelligent person combine the two disciplines.

[maveric]

12. If George Carlin were still around...

I can only imagine how he'd deal the dRump bunch. Bill Hicks? Frank Zappa?...

[hvn_nbr_2]

7. God, how I hate these fucking threads that don't say anything and won't even tell me...

...WTF they're talking about. There are about 200 of them today and you're the one who finally got to me. I'm not in your living room watching your TV and I'm not inside your mind reading it and I don't have eavesdropping devices implanted in your eyeballs.

[jmg257]

9. Franken did much more speculating then questioning.

Laid out his notions of possible (nefarious) reasons why things re: Flynn happened the way they did.

[spiderpig]

10. Could anybody understand what Franken was saying off-mic

when Blumenthal started?

[mulsh]

11. Much as I like him his name dropping monologue seemed unfocused but man, the punch line about

others in the White House also being compromised was a thing of beauty. And a great thing to have in the Congressional Record.

I also wished his mic had been louder so we could hear what he and Lahey were chatting about

[Alice11111]

13. Clapper did better than I expected, and Yates refused

to give them an inch, IMO.Yeah, she had constraits and I respect her for staying within them, but she failed to answer some questions when she could have been helpful.