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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI Doubt The Democrats Will Gain Much From Forced Franken Resignation. It Was A Keystone Cop Moment.
Doing the right thing was important and the Democrats screwed it up. Their panic attack going after Franken the way they did gave the GOP a "lynch mob" meme that will not help them but help worse GOP offenders go free. Now the GOP can supposedly go through a fake due process where they can control the outcome. Because they a lot of political apparatus they can run ethics investigations of their own the twill be like Kabuki theater where the out come is known. The guilty will be exonerated by a faux investigation where the victims will become the abusers.
In the end nothing will change except there will be no Franken in the Senate. All that will be left is the notion that the Democrats can be stampeded about anything even mirages.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)I think even the Rethugs are now scared to death what will happen to them if Moore gets to the Senate. Elaine Chao kind of front run things earlier last week with her let it go POS. That alone will buy them a few weeks,in which they can ram the Tax Bill Through. Next year is going to be real entertaining to watch the Rethugs eat their own.
sandensea
(21,635 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Here is the thing that really smells,Chao's family received the Shipping Contracts for inter coastal US waters. Or what is called US Flagged ships.
Just no end to the Corruption in this Friggin Administration. Just asked the people in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
sandensea
(21,635 posts)The contraband was seized, people were arrested, and a police inquiry was started - but it never went anywhere. That was five years ago.
Coincidentally (or not), bundles of cocaine kilos similar to the ones apprehended in Jimmy Chao's Ping May began appearing floating off the coast of Rotterdam a few months after this incident (presumably for pick-up by waiting speedboats).
The Ping May's main route was Santa Marta (a top cocaine transshipment hub) to Rotterdam.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Its just your average, everyday, completely innocuous business arrangement: a maritime business based out of Kentucky, Liberia, and the Marshall Islands, co-owned by a US Senators family and a Chinese billionaire that OCCASIONALLY gets busted for shipping a hundred pounds of cocaine to Rotterdam.
A dime a dozen! Practically an everyday occurrence!
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Remember his moronic lawyer? The easy Peasy lemon squeezy guy?
If thats the kind of top tier talent Roy Moore is surrounding himself with, this will be an AMAZING six years (assuming we dont all die in a nuclear apocalypse).
uponit7771
(90,339 posts)People like Franken the rest of em will look like hypocrites
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)Remember how Chuck Todd shamed Pelosi for not insisting Conyers should step down, like the day after the chargers were even made public ? That's an exaggeration on my part, but still -- this whole thing has been very fast to develop.
world wide wally
(21,743 posts)But this week still isn't too late.
Are you listening, Dems?
cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)Al knew that if he tried to fight for his position that the Republicans would have opened multiple investigations as well as used it as a weapon against fellow Democrats so I think personally that he decided to take the bullets out of the Republicans guns as far as doing that.
Plus another thing is it doesn't prevent him from running for office again to retake that senate seat down the road or maybe even for another office like president.