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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Monday, July 13, 2009

Picture of the Day




















(Senator Al Franken looks on during the committee's confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor.(AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais))

posted by mikevotes at 2:53 PM

6 Comments:

  • It looks like he's been in office for 20 years, not 5 days.

    By Blogger Unknown, at 9:19 PM  

  • Well, his first major thing is sitting and listening to all those Senators make THEIR opening remarks....

    Probably not what he envisaged when he was fighting so hard for the office.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 10:39 PM  

  • I will be watching him so closely over the next months and years, to see what he says and does, and how he reacts. I want to see how he responds to the Senate's culture of dealmaking and horsetrading...

    I'm on his side, of course, and I want to see him do well. Shall we start the gray hair watch?

    By Blogger r8r, at 12:49 AM  

  • Hmmm.... I don't know how he'll react to the horsetrading. MAny other new senators have come in "pue" and settled right into the give and take.

    But, their historical reaction to stress wasn't a really sharp and wicked wit.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 6:24 AM  

  • Al Franken is NOT a liberal fundamentalist. He is proudly progressive, but he's also smart and pragmatic. He isn't afraid to engage conservatives in a true debate/discussion.

    Not to sound too much like a fan-boy or anything...

    By Blogger -epm, at 7:56 AM  

  • But the majority of Senate work isn't debate/discussion. It's posturing, parliamentary, party, and horsetrading, all things that make the idealists old very quickly.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 8:28 AM  

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