A couple of video clips of Senator Al Franken in recent committee hearings going mano-a-mano with The Forces of Evil over health care reform and warrantless wiretapping:
And when he’s not kicking ass and chewing gum (and he’s all out of gum!) in committee, Franken is doing things like authoring an amendment to the 2010 defense appropriations bill to punish Halliburton and its minions for the not-uncommon problem of sexual assault against their female employees by their male employees (an amendment, by the way, that 30 Republicans voted AGAINST).
The Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune looked at Franken’s first 100 days in office and decided that he’s been keeping a low profile, but it seems to me that by “low-profile” all they really mean is that he hasn’t done anything to give the Republican attack dogs something to chew on. The popularity of these video clips, spurred on by The Daily Show taking notice of them, suggests to me that Al is just getting warmed up. With Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi fighting over who has the wobbliest spine and Barack Obama still more concerned with his awesomeness than actually DOING anything, the progressives need a LOT more of Al Franken. The FIRST Al Franken Decade (known to most of us as “The 1980s”) really never caught fire the way that it should have. I’m thinking now’s the time to line up the 2010′s as the SECOND Al Franken Decade so we can boost his profile a little bit before finding a Democratic replacement for Barack Obama in 2012.
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