Franken Calls GOP Obstructionism "Absurd" And Provides Examples
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Senator Al Franken is a former comedian and says he is well schooled on what is absurd. He finds the reasons from Republicans to block President Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland are that - absurd. And then dismantles the GOP logic during Thursday's Senate Judiciary Committee meeting.
Did you see all those old republican cronies...they had faces of stone as Franken was putting the truth too them..just..WOW!!
I like a guy that can call "bullshit"
Weather the borders are secure or not does not make or break white America. that is not the real issue, the issue is power in the majority and you are after the Mexicans who have no ill will, between them and us put together you will be in the minority, you either give the power up or share it... by next election you white advantage will be gone, Then we can start passing some laws for all of us, not just a few!!!
My respect for Al Franken just went up 50 notches...Wow someone in the senate actually speaks the truth.
NO fool...i have my own health care...Stop side stepping the question...were is the republican plan?..Where is TRUMPS PLAN??...The republicans should be rolling out a perfect plan 100 times better than the ACA on day one...why are we not hearing about their wonderful plan it should be all over the news the same as the ACA was for an entire year, they had the same amount of time as Obama did to come up with much better plan...were is it??..FUNNY HOW ABSOLUTLY NO ONE KNOWS THE DETAILS OF TRUMPS MAGNIFICENT PLAN EXCEPT AND I QUOTE " Its gonna be wonderful, the most beautiful thing, just wonderful your gonna love it" that is the bullshit line you idiots swallowed, hook line and stinker!!....so stop your spin deflecting bullshit...I don't give a fuck about what you think you do not owe, there are still millions of republicans and democrats black people white people who need affordable health care...All that bullshit talk and they got nothing on day one...NO REAL PLAN BECAUSE THEY NEVER HAD ONE and if they do have one , well it would be nice to actually tell the public what it is in great well informed detail..."crickets chirping"
John Smith. Your type of comment shows how large the chasm is between 'factual' thought and ignorant 'stoicism' brought on by the purposeful lies of ideological tea party hacks. We all pay for health care. You pay for the E.R. I just hope people would have an informed opinion. An opinion everyone has. An informed opinion takes work and diligence.
+ terry tee And that goes to show you what the GOP really think of the "People". They hated the ACA from the start and had what, at least 6 years to come up with something better? Where is it? They never intended to replace it with something better. They want it back to the way it was so the insurance companies can rip us all off again. Hand in Hand if you know what I mean.
We need more comedians in the Senate. They are the only sane people there, it seems.
+Ryan Langford Comedians are about the only people who speak truth to power. All 535 members of congress understand the absurdity of how they're making their living. Senator Franken, whom I deeply respect, is one of a handful who actually speaks out against the charade that passes for governance in this country.
+Michael Colloton Long ago I saw an interview with Joan Rivers. She said comedians HAVE to tell the truth or they are done for.
+Randy Phillips I can't totally disagree with you, but there are different breeds of comedians. There's George Carlin and there's Steven Wright. The former is held to a higher standard of truth than the latter. The comedian's primary job isn't necessarily to tell the truth; it's to make people laugh, for whatever reason. Both do (because George will live forever) their jobs very well. As does Joan.
+Michael Colloton Comedy requires a play on truth to be funny. The unconscious mind reacts to humor first. Conservatives cannot create comedy because they rely on doublespeak and dishonesty to maintain their positions. Many conservative outlets have tried to replicate The Daily Show and they've all failed.
Show me a list of prodigious comics and I'll show you a list of liberal luminaries.
+Randy Phillips Nah, I doubt that. Comedians are masters of exaggeration. Political comedians are by the strict definition, demagogues. Jon Stewart was the best. When you make people laugh, you trigger their pleasure center and by pavlovian conditioning, you create a sense of truth even when there is none. This is particularly effective when a certain issue is vague and can be seen in more than one way, and can cement a viewpoint which otherwise would be ambiguous.
i admit, this happened to me. After 9/11 after all of the islamophobia of the right, the daily show convinced me that islam was not all that bad, and that jihadism was the fault of western foreign policy. I have since come to understand this is total nonsense. It's based on islam in the west and the US, which is tempered by western society, but where islam runs rampant, it is horrible for women and apostates and atheists and adulterers, etc.
The great thing is, that there are no good comedians that are conservatives, so the demagoguery works to the left's advantage.
Proud of you Franken!!!
You Tell 'em, Al!
His tie is a cuttlefish!
He was very well trained in his previous career.
We need more like him, no matter what party we're talking about, people who can cut to the heart and call bullshit when they see it and hear it.
If I was Obama and Hillary wins the election I'd withdraw the nomination and let Hillary nominate a liberal. lesson learned for the obstructionist right.
+Greg Cantelli , exactly!!!
+Greg Cantelli The plan is worse, actually. Republican thinking is : if Mrs Rodham Clinton wins, they'll hastily confirm Garland to the court for fear of an even more liberal justice or, worse, A WOMAN! OF COLOR! Anyway. If Trump wins I guess we just shut down Congress
+Colin Peabody de Verteuil-Lorraine Obama can withdraw his nomination at any time. He's leading the GOP down that path where they are shooting themselves in the foot while thinking they're winning.
Go Al!!
+Greg Cantelli A pretty inspired plan!
+johnmburt1960 First, Bernie has no shot, sad to say. Second, it would be 4 more years of nothing getting done. We'll basically have Trump, Cruz, or Clinton. We already have McConnell and Ryan. I'm truly, deeply scared for my country.
I like Franken's wavy psychedelic tie.
I loved Al Franken on SNL, but I love and appreciate him so much more as Senator Al Franken. He is speaking so clearly, but Orrin Hatch seems totally confused. What is his problem? Aside from the fact that he is not the sharpest knife in the drawer? Alright, maybe that IS the problem.
+clarice525 Orrin Hatch is 81 years old and either pushing the envelope on senility, dementia or both. I'm surprised he doesn't have an aid to lead him to the restroom and get him back to the Senate floor....within a day or two.
David Cole I didn't realize Hatch was that old. Perhaps it is time that he retired.
+clarice525 There are currently 5 Octogenarians serving in the Senate: 1) Diane Feinstein 82 2) Chuck Grassley 82 3) Orrin Hatch 82 (toda(y's [March22nd] birthday boy!) 4) Rich Shelby 81 and 5) Jim Inhofe 81. Four of the top 5 are Rebulicans. The next spry youngster to join the club will be 79 year old Pat Roberts on April 20th.
Pat Leahy, a veritable toddler at 75 years old has served the longest at 41 years. Orrin 39 years, Thad Cochrin 37 years, Chuck Grassley 35 years and Mitch McConnell 31 years, have been collecting dust the longest. The other 95 Senators aren't even close.
+clarice525 Retire? Are you kidding? He's a "public servant", meaning that he gets off on the power of his position. "Service" has nothing to do with it. Who could give that up?
Michael Colloton You know, I'd say maybe a portion of the power trip thing is still in play...but, Hatch, Grassley and McConnell have a combined 105 years of service as professional politicians. I wish this next comment were funny...but, it's really just pathetic. It's becoming painful to watch Hatch and Grassley try to string together two coherent thoughts, McConnell wants to give veto power to the NRA over a Senate confirmation of a Supreme Court nominee.
These guys have gone WAY around the bend and the people who work with them on a daily basis won't point out to them how mentally deficient they've become.
Hatch was once a renowned Constitutional scholar...now he and his 2 colleagues are barely lucid. Time catches up to us all gentlemen.
I sure wish Franken would've run for President. I honestly think after watching him as a Senator that he'd do a tremendous job. Such is life, I guess.
I'm going to write him in.
Yeah, Democrats were way too trigger happy to kick this guy out of the Senate. It truly shows the difference between the two parties though, that this guy was kicked out by Democrats for a joke... but Republicans happily vote for and elect literal child rapists, pedophiles, and white supremacists. Just insane.
I have to admit... for a former comedian Senator Franken is one of a select, small group that actually takes his job seriously and does it well.
+Grumpy Santa Hear, hear!
"I'm just extrapolating on what I'm hoping will happen." LMAO!
+zwergie256 Hah! Hah! I thought that was pretty funny, too!
+zwergie256 I wonder if Hatch even understood what was said...lol
+zwergie256 me to, Obama will not be allowed to inflict any more harm on the Supreme Court or the American People and most of his policies will one day be shredded.
***** "Obama will not be allowed to inflict any more harm on the Supreme Court.."? What the hell are you talking about? It is the President's duty to nominate someone to fill the vacancy presently on the Supreme Court. It is the Senate's duty to interview and vet that nominee. Why isn't the Senate doing their damn job? And why is it that Republicans are all for the "rule of law", until things aren't going their way? Then suddenly it's an all day whine fest, "Hey, that's not fair!! We want to both choose and replace a judge that will be a stinking activist judge like Scalia who, happily for us, made decisions like 'corporations are people, too. Hooray!!"
What a complete blockhead you are.
clarice525 Dems are the one's whining, The majority of the Senate have advised Obama that consent will not be given. He shouldn't have even tried, he was told before hand and before you go on and on about obstructionism or not doing job's, this is not new which I am sure you know. Biden and Schumer's speeches about not confirming and even more damaging to the dems is when Obama as a senator filibustered Sam Alito. Reid, Schumer, Clinton, and many others participated in this filibuster. Alito was confirmed, but it wasn't from lack of trying on the Dems side. They simply didn't have enough votes to stop it. Now that it is reversed, Republicans have enough to stop this one. Obama himself has said that he regrets his actions, so spare me your half baked liberal, twisted logic, hussy.
that is the most badass tie in the world, Ms. Klubochar.
The Congress has, at last count, an 8% approval rating. That's lower than at any time since such statistics were kept. Yet a sitting member of Congress, from either house, has better than a 95% chance of being reelected. Eight percent of the American electorate approves of Congress, yet it continues to re-elect its own representatives. After all, it's the other 534 guys who are incompetent, not "my guy", After all, he got federal money to put lights on our HS football stadium. But god, I hate socialism.
We have exactly the government we want. We demonstrate it every 2 years.
"Scientists tell us that there are approximately 10 months left in his term." This guy is great.
He's a good person. I hope he returns to DC.
A former comic is a better senator than a former attorney who argued cases before the Supreme Court.
Al is not funny
I have a new found respect for Mr Franken standing up to this "absurdity". It has been blatantly used since the president stepped into office
OMG I have worked in special ed for eleven years but I would lose all patience with those immature crooks and liars. How can Al keep his cool?
I got it Al. We're fucked.
Justice delayed is justice denied. Or whatever. Thanks again Mr. Franken.
Dayyum. Calling it like it is. Kick their asses, Al!
Franken for PRESIDENT!!
Franken is a total moronic asshole. How anyone, even sniveling libs, would vote for him. What a puke!
Did you listen to a SINGLE word Franken said? How this was your reaction makes me question your sanity and your very ability to perceive reality...correctly .
They HAD to get rid of Al Franken, he just speaks too much common sense and reason.
FINALLY, somebody saying what I think.
Thank you, Sen. Franken. THANK YOU.
He's as good as they come.
Al Franken for VP
If I vowed to not do my job, I would no longer have one to do. After making it perfectly clear to the entire World that they will not do their jobs these greedy rats get a free pass? WTF?
+Kadui Saui This is why people need to pay attention and vote. Voter turnout in the US is depressingly low, and it's even worse in the years we don't vote for President.
+Kadui Saui our duty is to replace as many Republicans slots as possible this year and then in two years and again and again.
Ed Clark
Your duty? Why? Do you think somehow prosperity will trickle down and you'll be rewarded for being a good obedient republican? Is Jesus at the wheel making you vote against your own best interest? You must be a millionaire of you support the GOP and you can't give two shits for this country, or your a poor idiot blinded by Fox News.
+Kadui Saui I meant OUST those Republicans, as in REPLACE, not re-elect....with Democrats or Independents. And I'm buddhist, FYI.
I accept your apology. Namaste.
Ed Clark
Sorry I snapped. I probably would have understood if we were talking in the same room together. After reading my post again though, I realize that I could use some therapy.
Bork had a hearing and a vote and was rejected 58-42.
+Psi Clops -- Orrin Hatch was there for that hearing too. He voted to confirm Bork. He's just an outright liar. Pretty disgusting.
"Do you even talk to each other?" lmao Classic comedy in a NON comedy setting.
Watching senator Franken speak is precisely why I’ve always wished that Lewis black had made an attempt at running for office. At the VERY least we would have gotten some actually watchable hearings out of it.
I am a Canadian and even I can see what the GOP is up to.
he rocks 😊😊😊
When President Sanders takes over the WH, I hope he gives Sen. Franken a prime position within his cabinet.
At the very least, once the Dems regain control of the Senate, I hope he gets a great committee chair spot. He's a good man and a true servant of the people.
If it happens to be Hilary, I hope the same.
Also, he needs to wait to start drinking until AFTER he is on the floor.
I find Senator Franken to be one of the most dignified and reasonable persons serving in our national legislative institutions. He apparently takes his job seriously .
'scientists tell us there are approximately ten months left in his term' LMAO
That part makes me laugh out loud every time I play this. Thank you, Sen. Franken!
Show Me The Plan"-Trump
John Oliver and Jon Stewart for Senate!
Wow. Hear how the GOP just has no fricken clue? Complaining about Bork? And Hatch is still whining and refusing to tell the truth.
The people decided for a president that would have his powers for a full term. Not three years and four months.
#GetRekt
I say dems need to teach them a lesson and play their bent rules. They're always counting on dems playing real rules. So STOP!
Franken is well schooled in the absurd. His whole life is one big absurdity.
Hatch & Grassley are both 82 years old and have served in Senate, House or both for 39 and 40 years respectively. A senior government official should know that governance is not for or about them.
Hatch was a brilliant constitutional scholar but age and time have rendered him (and Grassley) doddering, resentful octogenarians.
Thank you for your service gentlemen. But, the the train is leaving the station - and please take McConnell with you.
yay Al !! we miss your satellite head dress. keep on !
What happens to be absurd are only Franken's claims.
"I didn't say that." You literally just said that 10 seconds ago. I hate Congress. Yikes. Go get 'em Al!
Is it too late for President Franken? If we need a candidate we can laugh at then, rather than Trump, why not pick a guy who really knows something?
Bring Frankenstein back.
Sanders- Franken and Warren need to lead a new party! These repubs say the dems do it- and they are right- the dems that are just like them. Throw them out- we are done with this shit-
I LOVE Al Franken. Great writer, actor, senator, man.
Al Franken: Once a jester, always the fool
This speech was paid for and sponsored by Deerwater, the freshest water out of the tap.
Frogg'in Franken just handed out some reality kool-aid that most politicians refuse to drink.
I'm not impressed by Merrick Garland... but I am liking Franken's argument. His phrasing at the end is priceless: not asking Hatch if there is a discrepancy but if hatch SEES the discrepancy. Hatch isn't saying whether there IS a discrepancy but that he does not SEE one. Franken is saying Hatch thinks in Doublethink and talks in Newspeak and Hatch is agreeing.
"Do you guys talk to each other?" lol priceless
He would make a great VP for Clinton, especially against a clown like Trump and whoever he picks as his running mate. Honestly, WHO is he going to pick? Palin? Carson? Franken will rip them to shreds.
"Let's be honest"
If only he ran for president :/
Ms. Klobuchar (whoever the hell that is) sure looks alot like AL Franken.
What I don't get is Garland is no liberal. He's a Republican conservative...
Hatch: **Turns to second old guy**. "How the hell do you know all this anyways?"
2nd Old Guy: "Library of Congress Archives on my smartphone. Get on my level, scrub!"
:P
I would personally like to see presumptive Presidential nominee Clinton choose All Franken as a running mate. From Mark Twain to Jon Stewart, satirists have again and again, shown themselves to be very smart, and very well informed. Most of all, they are able to see absurdity. As Senator Frankin said, that was his job for 20 or so years. I have know idea who Trump will choose as a running mate. It could be Hulk Hogan -- or someone with actual policy knowledge. I think Senator Franken could deal with either one in a debate.
Bork had hearings. I watched and listened to them.
Al Franken for Vice President. I want a Clinton/Franken ticket.
AL FRANKEN FOR PRESIDENT
Holy shit someone says something AND THEN GIVES EXAMPLES??? He must be reliable if he can give examples... I mean without examples, how could we trust it?
I used to be a HUGE fan of Al. his support of Hillary has ruined that. very dissapointing.
dat tie yo ))
At 7:25 when Orrin Hatch tried to suggest that Robert Bork didn't have a hearing before the Senate... mental gymnastics at its best.
"I didn't say that", " No I just said..." "Oh I MEANT to say thats where it all began".
Funny how this train of non thought is used when trying to rationalize religion.
Republicans be honest???? hell will freeze over first...
******* for al
I fuckin miss Al Franken in the senate!!
I don’t
I think Franken is great, but I couldn't take my eyes of the gal behind him.
Who is the Blonde woman over his Left Shoulder
cool tie
Al Frankenstein
My God, the stripe pattern @8:34 - who the Hell dresses this guy????
Loud tie
Al needs to go hunting with Ted Nugent.
Eye Test at 8:34
the attractive man to his right and the woman to his left should make love
Is he the grandfather of some comedian? His face and mannerisms seem familiar ...
He was a comedian on SNL
Just joking yea in the movies too the Duo Franken and Davis actually quite funny and dumb acting Dudes... Not so funny any more though I keep waiting for a joke but it never comes...
Biden lost my vote
Remember the Biden rule Stewart Smalley, you're not good enough .
There is no "Biden Rule." That's a bunch of bullshit the GOP made up. Again.
+jayburdification good luck with defending that, what bar did you pour out of?
jayburdification
,See the youtube video 1992:Sen.Biden says President Bush should not name nominee until after election (C-SPAN)
+marine919 Listen to the whole speech in context, instead of the usual Repugnican lies. There is no Biden Rule. Completely made up! Seriously, listen to the whole speech please.
+marine919 ...when was this "Biden Rule" voted on, accepted, and enshrined as an official Congressional procedure? when was it then subsequently ever invoked or used (prior to this current, manufactured situation)? when was it implemented and used to deny an actual Supreme Court nominee a hearing and a vote? where is the precedent and/or the proof of its official existence as a Senate rule?
Wtf is Hatch wearing haha
Talking about Reagan? How absurd. Grow up grandpa.
This guy is a comedian ...are you serious ...go back SNL....they need you for ratings
True, he is a comedian but Trump is a clown.
Len Visconti and yet somehow has more common sense, intelligence, honesty, integrity, and DESIRE TO WORK FOR HIS CONSTITUENTS than ANY republican in Washington for the past at least 16 years!