Can we call him the new “Lion of the Senate” yet?
Surely by now you’ve seen the Franken on Lieberman smack-down video that has all us liberal types shrieking in ecstasy like tweeners with surprise backstage passes to a Jonas Brothers concert. I had a similar reaction to it myself, which was manifested in a sudden urge to have scads and scads of Franken’s sardonic, bespectacled babies.
But you know, that’s kind of sad, really, and indicative of how desperately we progressive types need a little validation. Because it’s not like Franken stormed across the floor of the senate, wrapped the handle of his gavel around Lieberman’s tongue and ripped the mendacious organ up from its sulfurous root. No, Franken politely, almost apologetically and with an aw-shucks kind of gesture told Lieberman his mewling had gone on for the allotted 10 minutes and declined to hear him drone on past the limit.
Comb-over, yes. Comity, no.
But if our reaction to that pretty unremarkable exchange was a tad excessive, noted rage-o-holic John McCain’s was even more silly. He rose up in a barely controlled fury to denounce the exchange as a break of “decorum” and “comity” the likes of which he claims not to have seen in all his born days (which include the Paleozoic era).
A senator with an even more conspicuous comb-over quickly corrected the record, pointing out that yet another senator had been issued a similar STFU that very afternoon. But McCain was not mollified. There will be blood, my friends. Blood and comb-overs. Mark my words.
Posted by Betty Cracker on 12/18/09 at 09:03 AM • Permalink
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