I am not clear on why Bernie would want to railroad Franken. What were his ulterior motives?

[PatrickforO]

58. I expect more of Bernie, and I'm very disappointed in his piling on

this me too thing.

As to whether strong Bernie supporters wouldn't criticize him, forget that. If I think he's wrong, as I do now, I'm going to criticize him. I thought he was about 95% right during the primaries, and I really liked his platform. Still do. But I abhor this particular action he has taken. It amounted to spineless pandering.

As to motive, I think several of the instigators have presidential ambitions, and they mistakenly calculated this brazen act of betrayal would make them stand out in a positive way. It didn't.

As to the rest, I suspect we have a party that is basically gutless. It lives in fear of doing or saying the wrong thing, because the timing is or isn't right. Like when Pelosi and Steny Hoyer told their rank and file 'it isn't the time' for articles of impeachment.

BULLSHIT.

Let's have some guts here, folks. Those 58 House members that voted FOR those articles have guts. They deserve our support. They stand for something. They are willing to say, 'enough.'

These Senators, and the House members who did NOT vote their conscience, aren't displaying the guts that would inspire the 40+ percent of Independent voters to follow them. Hell, those voters say (and I am tempted to say), they don't stand for anything but their own advancement, and they are too scared of losing the next election to really DO anything.

In the meantime the GOP is screwing us right and left, raping the treasury, stealing trillions of dollars of money that we've paid in or will pay in, and transferring all that wealth to billionaire parasites.

And you know what they are saying about this whole Franken witch hunt? Nothing, because they are laughing too hard at a craven party that refuses to stand for justice and common decency. I don't believe that, but it sure looks that way right now, doesn't it?

And it sure as HELL looks that way to Independents. They hate the Republicans, they hate Trump, but we Democrats still have to EARN their votes, and we are doing a really shitty job of that.