Ted Cruz is Trump's 'biggest lickspittle' -- and all his colleagues hate him: Former Sen. Al Franken

[DonViejo]

[MyOwnPeace]

1. While we're celebrating.......

think how great it would be to get Al back in the Senate again!

[mr_lebowski]

4. +1000000 nt

[dalton99a]

2. Would you buy a used car from this asshole

[trusty elf]

5. Why, sure! He just looks so trustworthy!

[dalton99a]

6. +1

[RVN VET71]

8. Would you buy a drink for this man? Or just call him a cab home?

[GemDigger]

9. If I could be sure there would be no on the roads,

I would buy him a double and give him back his car keys.

[RVN VET71]

10. That would be so much better for the country!

But only if, as you say, no one else (well, maybe Mitch McConnell) was on the road.

[GemDigger]

11. Well, if they want to have a drag race

I will buy them both double scotches and give them both their keys.

[BootinUp]

3. Recced for lickspittle used accurately. Nt

[RVN VET71]

7. Come back, Al, we need your voice and intelligence.

Kirsten Gillibrand started the insane and foolish wild-fire by the suicidal Democrats to throw this man out of the Senate. She paid a price for her decision to go after and basically ruin Senator Franken. I think she knows that. But I can never forget how many of her fellow Democrats joined almost eagerly in her campaign to force Al to resign.

Half of the Democrats in the Senate at that time participated in the gang mugging and I think it was craven and cowardly of them. Had there been substantiation to go with the accusations against him, I may have been less angered by the sudden assault on him and his character by his “colleagues and dear friends.” But the Dems never seem to play to win. They devour each other while the GOP erases the constitution.

I’m sorry if my stance on this potentially divisive issue is offensive or off-putting to some here, but can anyone here honestly say that the Democratic Party’s complement of Senators is better off without Al Franken than with him? That the Democratic message has been spread more clearly without him?

And I haven’t forgotten that he sought the proposed ethics committee investigation and said, before Gillibrand started the fire, that he would abide by its decision. He was looking for due process. Instead he got unceremoniously -- but with flurries of hypocritical posturing from so many of his “dear friends and colleagues” -- dumped like yesterday’s garbage.

Sorry for the rant. But I genuinely miss his presence in the Senate as a counter-voice to the rising authoritarianism from the hypocritical “conservative” GOP.

[marble falls]

13. It's not a rant when 99% of DU agree with you.

[RVN VET71]

14. Thanks for that.

There was a sight I used to frequent almost daily -- I won’t mention its name. One day the subject of Al Franken had come up in the news and there was virtually universal negative comments about Al made by readers of the site. Not objectively considered, evidence based but smarmy and dismissive of the man, as if there had been an ethics investigation, a laying out of evidence versus accusations, etc.,when, of course, there hadn’t been. I was taken aback by the vitriol and near unanimity displayed, left a remark in Al’s defense and never went back. And I won’t, not ever.

[marble falls]

15. We had a few weeks of that, but as the story developed it became obvious that it wasn't what ...

... the story purported to be, and that the ginning done in the story was Roger Stone's twists to blacken Al's rep.

We lost a capable leader. He's hinted he's looking for an office and I hope he runs.

[RVN VET71]

16. Sad thing about the site I referred to: this was a year or so after the resignation

At a time when any reasonable thinking person would at the very least have felt skeptical about the piling on to force Franken’s resignation. So, no, this wasn’t in the heat of the “controversy”. That’s why I left. Made me angry. Makes me angry.

[marble falls]

12. "Lickspittle" Great word.