‘Who is this chickenshit?’ redux: Franken-Pickens fracas recalls Wellstone

Franken, like many others, does have a memory about the past unethical behavior of “the
monied class” who do not deserve “respect”, and yet they are honored by television news,
and elected officials. I find it quite astonishing that the collective memory has a half life
of 5 minutes or less.

Give ‘em hell, Al!

everyone is laughing at you minnesota. enjoy your escilating heating bills due to global wa , oops, I mean climate change. gee, do ya think it’s gonna get colder this next winter or the next 20 or so, good thing you’re in for the ‘it’s warming up doncha nowe’ tax. ha ha ha ha. losers. please just stay there and shiver. with the rest of your democrat shiverers. ha ha ha ha

Minnesota, minnesota, minnesota. You actually voted for this clown. Folks say that there is a lot of in-breeding going on in mississippi…..I think they have their geography confused.

What a bunch of clowns and an even bigger clown they sent up.

What, being a billionaire doesn’t mean I can lie and screw people over, and then expect everyone to kiss my ass?

MN elected Franken because we thought the Senate needs more people who tell the truth and don’t take crap from the powerful. And that’s what we got.

I wonder who’s gonna end up using all those windmills T Boone Idiot bought from GE.

And there’s a lot of us in the rest of the country that welcome Franken as another progressive
in the Senate (there’s too few progressives in there as it is)

Good job, Al! There are 99 Senators who will kiss Pickens’ ass and 1 who will speak truth to power.

Good for Franken! Finally a politician who is not afraid to speak his mind to the rich and powerful. We need more like Al !!!

I’m proud of Senator Franken.

I’m with dude and lee. I never finish hi scool jus like them, but i know globl warming and franken and libruls are joke. obama and libruls are the joke. he he he. globl warning is o jok. I have GED from oklahoma and i no what Im talkink about. Obama is comoonist soshilist evil doer with heatl care and born in uganda.

oh my god, i’m such an idiot. someone please help me.

Good for you Al !!! That’s why I contributed to his campaign…. Guts is what he has and is so lacking in so many of our elected representatives. Keep it up Al !!!

keep speaking truth to power, its early and I think the state with the highest percentage of actual voting can deal with this itself…

Go Al.

Give em Hell Al! Pickens doesn’t deserve any respect. Make him earn it!

Remember also Wellstone’s prescience in his first speech to the Senate regarding the first gulf war? Bush 41 called him a chickenshit, but Wellstone warned that, while victory may be easy, it would carry with it great costs:

“What kind of victory will it be if we shoulder this responsibility, if the alliance fractures and if there is an explosion of anti-American fury throughout the Arab world, accompanied by widespread violence and terrorism, what kind of victory will that be?”

Bin Laden’s extreme anger at the United States was indeed fueled by the first gulf war, not because he sided with Iraq, but because the US used his home of Saudi Arabia as the base of operations. In Richard Clark’s book about the 9/11 attacks (Against All Enemies), he writes that Bin Laden had offered up his Afghan Arab fighters to defend Saudi Arabia after Iraq invaded Kuwait.The King refused his offer and Bin Laden was convinced that the US presence violated Islam and would become permanent.

As Wellstone feared, the first gulf war, which most Americans view as a great success, did indeed fuel Bin Laden’s anti-American hatred and terrorism and led directly to the attacks of 9/11.

I am so ready to give up on the whole political scene in Washington, so thank you Al for keeping a little spark of honesty and justice alive.

Thank goodness for the Swift Boat Ads. Can you imagine if that idiot Kerry had been elected?

Senator Al Franken:
I want to express my disappointment when you decided it was in America’s interest to confront T Boone Pickens regarding events that took place years ago that have no relevance to our current problems or national interests.
The American people expect you to confront Pickens about his ideas, especially ones that are related to energy independence and green initiatives. Your actions demonstrated that you are a partisan politician with emotional resentments that are getting in the way of doing the people’s work.
America is focused on energy interdependence, out of control spending, rising national debt, and historic unemployment. We don’t care about sore losers that are still caught up on the past 2004 Presidential election. Moving forward my hope is that you work across party lines and bring people together to solve problems but actions like this provide me little hope.

There’s a difference between disagreeing on principle and being an ass simply to be an ass. Franken is the latter and proved it a long time ago. I can only assume that those of you who have no problem with this type of behavior are also asses.

In much of the country, behavior like Franken’s is viewed as immature and childish. It appears that such behavior is still quite acceptable in Minnesota. I say still because I saw plenty of it when I was transferred to the corporate gulag in the Twin Cities years ago.

I don’t understand you people. You are, for the most part educated. You live in a beautiful area and have developed a form of government that works as well as, if not better than most. You have a lot going for you and yet in spite of it, you behave like little children. You vote for and elect gadflys like Wellstone, Ventura and Franken simply to draw attention to yourselves, much like the 8 year old who doesn’t get enough attention from mommy and daddy. You don’t really care that these freak shows manage to accomplish very little because they are too busy trying to be different. It plays well in The Cities and on the Range, but at the end of the day you have absolutely nothing to show for it.

The bottom line is that Pickens is an opportunist. When it comes to business, he is brutal. I would not want to negotiate with him. That said, only a moron would insult the guest of honor to score cheap points at home.

Congratulations, Minnesota. You got your morn.

I don’t under

Way to go Al! Give ‘em hell!!

I didn’t like Franken as a comedian, didn’t think he was funny, but am starting to like him as a senator.

This is exactly why I worked for his election, voted for him. We need more like him in the Senate… instead of these ass kissing senators with their hands out to any bigwig they meet.

It continues to amaze me how liberals believe that a government will somehow take from the haves and give it to the have-nots without any strings attached (that means control, since I have to spell it out for them). If you liberals believe that “the” government you want to hand control over your lives to, while dragging the rest of us with you will never turn on you, well it will be too late and you obviously haven’t really thought that through. Do you think democrats will always control the levers of power? If you do, then you are deluded. When those evil republicans take control, and they will, then that power you gave away will be turned against you. How can you not see this? If you just do not care, well then I will enjoy watching you eat that shit sandwich you forced on the rest of us.

Oh, and regarding pickens vs al- billionaire vs not funny comedian.
Run along now, back to your daily kooks.

T boone talks about wind, but what he is buying is water rights. Pickens wants to pipeline the Great lakes to the southwest to sell to the highest bidder.

T boone talks about wind, but what he is buying is water rights. Pickens wants to pipeline the Great lakes to the southwest to sell to the highest bidder.

If water is the new oil, T. Boone Pickens is a modern-day John D. Rockefeller. Pickens owns more water than any other individual in the U.S. and is looking to control even more. He hopes to sell the water he already has, some 65 billion gallons a year, to Dallas, transporting it over 250 miles, 11 counties, and about 650 tracts of private property.

But Pickens’s lobbying powers aren’t limited to the Lone Star state. Pickens testified yesterday in front of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Pickens told Congress to expand the scope of eminent domain and right-of-way, which are currently controlled at the state level, so companies like his Mesa Wind and Water can operate across state lines.

“All I’m doing is selling surplus water,” Pickens tells Business Week. The very idea of “surplus water” exemplifies how Pickens can make anything into a commodity, from water to political will.

Our surplus water.

Texas Steve,

Stay in TX and do not come here to tell us who to elect. You idiots put the Shrub in power after
funding his stadium with taxpayer money and then destroyed the rest of the country with
the Decider and you have the gall to tell us who to elect?

Without us you would still be a slave state.

Anyone that voted for Al Franken is an idiot. Simple.

Good job,speaking out for the common man,with guys like you there is hope after all!