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His questions to De Bernardo are amazing.

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I'm beginning to think he's a better statesman than he is a comedian. Time will tell.

A niggling little thought has been running through my mind while watching him (finally) get started on his new career. Was Coleman's legal battle to refuse admitting defeat motivated more by a desire to keep the Democrats from getting 60 votes in the Senate, or to keep Franken from asking these kinds of questions?

Wow. Just, wow.

Senate skills, he has them!

Did you see the lady in the background?

Sorry what did Franken say?

Ok all dark comedy aside, I thought that common knowledge was no felony can be sent to arbitration.

Because felonies are a matter of Criminal Court, therefore nullifying any contract she has signed with the company in question. Because they are aiding and abetting criminals in their employ. Ergo, they are criminal too.

This is why Franken's election was fought against so hard. Because they knew he would 'do his job' unlike so many others in government.

Though I have to say.. the woman in the background was a tad distracting.

Oh Senate Snap!

Binding arbitration has been a barn sized loophole in our justice system that companies have been exploiting for years. Take a look at your cell phone contract, I can almost guarantee there's a binding arbitration clause in there. Thankfully in recent months the government has been cracking down this, with this past week being a huge step (the vote Franken mentions near the beginning).

I don't live anywhere near Franken's jurisdiction, but in the short time he's been a senator, he's been impressing me more and more. Which is something I very rarely get to say in politics.

Jamie Leigh Jones is accusing 7 KBR of drugging and "gang-raping" her. As the video says she's been trying 4 years to get her day in court. Now I know that a corporation is not a moral entity however it is filled with people, as well as the people in the justice department who've had this pass by their desks. How could human beings be so callous and just plain evil to deny a hearing about this. I'd like a list of all the people that are in charge and are blocking this hearing so they could be made public.

Kick out Pelosi and get Franken in.

^ I like the sentiment, but Pelosi is the leader of the House, and Franken is in the Senate.

What you really want to say is:

Kick out Harry Reid, and get Franken in.

FYI, even after this interview there were 30 votes against the bill.

Alexander (R-TN) Barrasso (R-WY) Bond (R-MO) Brownback (R-KS) Bunning (R-KY) Burr (R-NC) Chambliss (R-GA) Coburn (R-OK) Cochran (R-MS) Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) Crapo (R-ID) DeMint (R-SC) Ensign (R-NV) Enzi (R-WY)G raham (R-SC) Gregg (R-NH) Inhofe (R-OK) Isakson (R-GA) Johanns (R-NE) Kyl (R-AZ) McCain (R-AZ) McConnell (R-KY) Risch (R-ID) Roberts (R-KS)Sessions (R-AL)Shelby (R-AL) Thune (R-SD) Vitter (R-LA) Wicker (R-MS)

And here I kinda liked McCain.

http://senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00308

That was a Grade A ass whooping.

I of course notice that every single NAY is a republican. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

>> ^Ryjkyj:
FYI, even after this interview there were 30 votes against the bill.
Alexander (R-TN) Barrasso (R-WY) Bond (R-MO) Brownback (R-KS) Bunning (R-KY) Burr (R-NC) Chambliss (R-GA) Coburn (R-OK) Cochran (R-MS) Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) Crapo (R-ID) DeMint (R-SC) Ensign (R-NV) Enzi (R-WY)G raham (R-SC) Gregg (R-NH) Inhofe (R-OK) Isakson (R-GA) Johanns (R-NE) Kyl (R-AZ) McCain (R-AZ) McConnell (R-KY) Risch (R-ID) Roberts (R-KS)Sessions (R-AL)Shelby (R-AL) Thune (R-SD) Vitter (R-LA) Wicker (R-MS)
And here I kinda liked McCain.
http://senate.gov/legislativ
e/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00308

I used to be Republican but for years I find Both parties Disgusting. As a conservative I don't like Republicans and hence loath Democrats.

That being said Al Franklin did a great job. KBR ( Haliberton) deliberately hid wrong doings and tried to keep it under the rug and this girl gets raped. How sick.


Funny that the vote being 68 YEAs to 30 NAYs and the 30 being all Republicans. Funny ? no not really just predictable and sad.

>> ^NetRunner:
^ I like the sentiment, but Pelosi is the leader of the House, and Franken is in the Senate.
What you really want to say is:
Kick out Harry Reid, and get Franken in.


According to the never-wrong wikipedia...

"The House of Representatives elects the Speaker of the House. Whoever receives a simple majority of the votes is elected and, after election, is sworn in by the Dean of the House, the chamber's longest-serving member. There is no requirement in the Constitution that the speaker must also be a current member of the House of Representatives to serve as speaker; however, every speaker elected has also been an elected representative.

In modern practice, the Speaker is chosen by the majority party in the House; it is usually obvious within two to three weeks of a House election who the new Speaker will be. It is expected that members of the House vote for their party's candidate. If they do not do so, they usually vote for someone else in their party or vote "present.""

Franken could be House Speaker.

>> ^NordlichReiter:I thought that common knowledge was no felony can be sent to arbitration.

Rapes in Iraq are not crimes in the US, so, you can't follow that chain of responsibility. As far as I'm aware Iraq provided full criminal immunity to contractors at the time, so it wasn't even a crime in Iraq.

The Bear from Minnesota! I'm glad I voted for him, I wasn't sure after whole recount debacle.

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>> ^dgandhi:
>> ^NordlichReiter:I thought that common knowledge was no felony can be sent to arbitration.
Rapes in Iraq are not crimes in the US, so, you can't follow that chain of responsibility. As far as I'm aware Iraq provided full criminal immunity to contractors at the time, so it wasn't even a crime in Iraq.


It depends on the circumstances. I for example was born overseas on a US military base within another country. However as my father was in the US military, and I was born on a US base (legally considered US soil), then I am a natural born citizen, as if I was born within the border of the USA in any state. US diplomatic compounds are also considered US soil. As a result anyone on such grounds are subject to US law. When they step beyond those grounds, especially in wartime... they are in the employ of the US military and are bound by the same laws which govern the troops. Murder is murder. Rape is rape. This isn't the first time crimes have been prosecuted in US court that took place overseas.

With the same logic, a crime committed on the high seas beyond the borders of the US or any nation would not be prosecutable. This is not the case. The are a lot of complexities involved of course, but i can guarantee a gang rape or murder spree won't go unpunished in such a blatant rape case as this.

Why the Republicans are fighting it? Lobbying money. KBR, Halliburton, Blackwater (conveniently renamed for those with memory issues) may think they are immune from the law. Lawmakers may have told them they are immune. But that does not make it so.

A high ranking official may get away with it. But a bunch of raping low-levels will face a judge. The public won't allow for it.

Excellent job. That and the woman behind Sen Franken is really hot, in a librarian sort of way.

Damn. He's good.

Hard working individuals, and not a God, define what is right, what is good, what is just. Sadly, the opposite is also true. This makes my day both happy and sad. Not that I didn't already feel this way all of the time, but seeing someone who really gives a damn, doing their job is a fine reminder.

I for one would welcome Al Franken as the next president of the USA.

>> ^Payback:
Franken could be House Speaker.


Huh, didn't know it wasn't a requirement, though I would think it'd be strange to have someone setting the legislative agenda for the House who wasn't actually a member of the body itself.

In any case, I'd be more inclined to replace Reid if we were going to replace either chamber's leader, and it also happens that Franken is part of the appropriate chamber to do so.

Not that there's a snowball's chance in hell of that happening, but still.

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This is the part of American democracy that I like the most.