It's wrong to railroad a person. Any person. It must be said and repeated.

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34. Too True!

zentrum said:

The Dems finally take a stand---and it's against one of their own strongest members!!!!

Bitter irony alert.

In the wake of Franken's announced resignation, there appears to be a scramble to walk back the nature of what was willfully (and IMHO) needlessly done with a lynch-mob mentality. On a new day, we now have Dems admitting that this was a moral and political calculation, that sweeping the board clean elevates the Democratic position on gender/sexual issues.

It apparently required a sacrifice and Franken was the sacrificial goat.

I find Guillibrand's comments on the whole sorry affair very disconcerting--minimizing the call for resignation, pretending that she and her colleagues didn't pile on for a theatrical effect, as if the ruination of Franken's political career is a minor blip on the radar.

Yes, Franken's boorish misconduct opened the door to all the brouhaha, but I still maintain that a single response (public beheadings) to all offensive behaviors--from the least to the whoppers--is inherently wrong. And though the Ethics' Committee's process may be flawed, a public airing is still preferable to the rough justice handed to Senator Franken.

Lawrence O'Donnell made an interesting statement last night: Never look to politics for fairness.

Perhaps, he's correct. But it still sucks.