Video: Franken Shuts Down Lieberman on Senate Floor
This made me laugh. I love Al Franken.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Al Franken has taken the unusual step of shutting down Sen. Joe Lieberman on the Senate floor.
Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, currently is the target of liberal wrath over his opposition to a government-run insurance plan in the health care bill.
Franken was presiding over the Senate Thursday afternoon as Lieberman spoke about amendments he planned to offer to the bill. Lieberman asked for an additional 30 seconds to finish — a routine request — but Franken refused to grant the time.
Lieberman, appearing taken aback, said he’d submit the rest of his statement in writing. Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona came to his friend Lieberman’s defense and criticized Franken’s behavior as inappropriate.
December 17th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Looks like things are getting ugly up there on the Hill. Somebody isn’t a happy camper and He’s reeling under the pressure and so is his flunkies. Wonder who that could be? Hmmmm. Hmmmmm. Hmmmmmm.
December 18th, 2009 at 6:12 am
As far as I am concerned the Senate is getting clogged-up with stupidity …… The Republicans shut down every democrat they wanted to shut down when Bush was in office … so this McCain moment is, in my mind, like a toilet all clogged up spewing out all its stupidity for lack of a different word.