Thus, Franken has been the "collateral damage" to block Roy Moore. How sad, how disheartening.

Still, as I post elsewhere on this thread - it was the drip drip drip method that was used with Hillary's emails. It appeared that every other day, or so, a new allegations appeared and he had to respond to each. This would have affected his effectiveness. Still, his peers should have awaited for the ethics committee, not that it would have made a difference.