Senator Al Franken was presiding over something where other senators were talking about stuff. I think Senator Joe Lieberman was talking about some stuff he’d like to amend in the proposed health care bill - that everyone’s been giving him a hard time for not rolling over and letting it just happen – and when he asked for some more time, the distinguished and odd smelling Al Franken shut him down: “In my capacity as the senator from Minnesota, I object,” Franken said.
I guess this sort of thing doesn’t usually happen. These senators often ask for another moment, and are granted it. I’m pretty sure I know what’s going on here; it’s like being the new kid in school, and not really being good at anything - no athletic ability, not too smart, not good looking, not funny – but you need to flex a little, set a little status… the best way to do this is to find the kid that’s smaller and already disliked who’s less athletic, less intelligent, uglier, and lacking all charm, and pick on that kid. Do I know about this from experience? No no no, I had it all. I’m just very observant.
Al Franken took some time to speak at Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s hearing… I got to tell ya, he wasn’t very funny. All the conservatives and republicans promised me a jokester-clown like person. Disappointing.
Here’s a longer clip of it. No need to view it really. He sounds like a politician, sounds like he’s serious about his job, and sounds like he likes Sotomayor; no surprises, just like a politician.
On a side note, he doesn’t bring much star power with him, huh… I doubt anyone there was even slightly starstruck, ‘oh my, I’m so sorry to do this, but before we go into the hearing, can I get my picture taken with you.’ If anyone did do that, they should have hands smacked by a nun. Bad, bad idiot… he’s not a star.
And I don’t mean ‘Boob’ as in “I love boobies…” I mean it as in dunce, fool, goof, goon, etc. Al Franken is not a Boob. People think he’s some kind of crazy comedian, some wacky guy coming to Washington – did you watch him on SNL, he wasn’t even that funny. What do people think he’s going to do?
He’s not going to burst through the Senate doors five minutes after the session started, carrying a box of melted ice cream, run down the aisle, trip, somersault all the way to the bottom and sit there and start eating the ice cream. But the ice cream was all melted and nothing is in the box… ah, but he looks down and sees some spilt on his tie. So he lifts his tie and starts licking it, then he looks around, holds the tie up and says, “That’s good.”
That’s probably not going to happen. Whatever he’s done in his past he did it because it was his job… No matter how terrible, horrible, gawd-awful he was at being a radio host, he was doing his job; how terrible his Stuart Smalley movie was, he was doing his job; supposedly he was a good writer on SNL, but not a funny actor, doing his job. When he gets to Washington, D.C. he’ll do his job.
I know what you’re thinking, and no, I am not a fan of Al Franken; I have no idea how he’ll be as a politician. And I don’t even like him that much – I met him once and he was funny-looking and smelled weird. True story.
