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Do you know the difference hetween an individual opinion column and a corporate policy? Not that FNC wouldn’t like Stuart to resign.
Trump first.
First Trump has to. You can't have one guy with 19 allegations stay in office while giving the boot to the other guy with 1.
I'm fully ready to give Franken the boot. But I demand the same treatment of Trump. It's an entirely moral stance.Integrity would say otherwise. You can't just say you own the moral high-ground if you don't actually take it from time to time (that doesn't mean being "less bad" than the other guy/gal).
I am in the same boat. Franken is an idiot, but it was a much more minor transgression compared to Moore and many underage girls. Also, Menendez should get the boot.What Al Franken did and what Roy Moore/Trump did are not even in the same ballpark. I know everyone is worried about looking hypocritical, but these are false analogies.
And before you want to come at me as a partisan, Robert Menendez is the Democratic Senator who needs to resign, not Franken. AINEC.
Franken should just let this run it's course and then lay low for awhile,... The next witch hunt is coming and hopefully he can just be a spectator for that one....
This is why we get no where in politics.
That's what he will do. But I hope the scum bag is forced out. So we can get a new scum bag selected by one of our scum bag parties.
Like it even matters anymore.
Nope. But he should refuse to host SNL again. He wasnt an elected official at the time of the incident. Haven't we all done such stuff at one time or another? I certainly have been inappropriate with the opposite sex once or twice.
Why in the hell does FOX think Franked should resign? Are they collectively that stupid? Why should Franked resign....but Trump not?
Jeeeebus keeeerist....lets all be as stupid as FOX.
And Riley would be perfect. His expectations are low.
No. Let the people of the Peoples' Republic of Minnesota vote him out if they please.
Garrison Keillor, Michelle Bachman, Kevin McHale...Jesse Ventura, Al Franken,.... who do you think the Gophers would come up with next?
Yes.
It is time to purge, accountability absolutely NEEDS to happen in all of these cases.
Yep - so the Family Values party should go first.Integrity would say otherwise. You can't just say you own the moral high-ground if you don't actually take it from time to time (that doesn't mean being "less bad" than the other guy/gal).
Pretty sure Moore's actions with the 14 year old would have been illegal.Honestly, I haven't seen anything Moore is accused of that is illegal; just very creepy. He should not be allowed in the Senate because he has twice proven he is not willing to uphold the constitution; which is their oath of office. Those trying to get Moore to step aside over this accusations are using them as an excuse to get rid of him. GOP doesn't want the embarrassment, Dems don't want a rightwing nutjob in the Senate.
Franken's actions are closer to being illegal, in that they could be considered assault. However, given that this was a voluntary kiss during a voluntary skit rehearsal, I would think "he kissed me more aggressively than I expected" would not get a conviction.
Answer is "no", Franken should not resign.
Yep - so the Family Values party should go first.
At some point we need to draw the line on things like
---how egregious was the offense
---how long ago (and what were the standards of conduct then)
---how has the person behaved since
...and so on.
I'm not sure which side of the line Franken would fall on if we laid out those standards.
I am pretty sure which side of the line Trump and Moore fall on.
So . . . let's start by dumping the worst offenders. Then we can work down the list. If we get to Franken, so be it.
I like him, but if our society wants to draw the line such that he's on the wrong side, then he should go.
If society draws the line to let Trump and Moore get away with their crap, Franken has nothing to worry about.
I'm no Franken fan, but the only way he should resign is if it's part of a larger purge. He was a pig, but there are plenty of pigs and criminals in Congress.
Well, you can't hold one standard for one person and then hold a completely different standard for another. If the bar is low enough that Franken needs to resign, well that means that the President easily clears that metric. Of course, that metric will probably me 3/4 of Congress will have to give up their seats as well by the time this is all said and done.