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In reply to the discussion: Kirsten Gillibrand is about to have a bad week [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Republican operation before she pushed herself onto the stage to try to capitalize on it.
By that point, though, Franken and his senate colleagues were all realizing that keeping sexual depravity a Republican-owned issue required cutting line. And as you'll recall all women senators, and then most of the men, joined in to use the situation to make as powerful a statement against sexual harassment as they could.
Such a shame putting the message across this way was necessary. But how often every day on this very forum do people complain, complain, complain that Democrats "aren't doing anything?" They want to see Democrats play acting at doing something in front of cameras dramatically enough that networks will put it on a TV screen for them. And, of course, that's the only way millions of others will have any idea anything's happening at all.