So, Senator Al Franken.  After the hi-jinx of Cornyn battling down the hatchets for filibustering and as the Norm Coleman court challenges flitter away and dissolve, that’s what you have.  (Along with, sadly, Senator Burris in a flutter of equal political hi-jinx.)

Not really the man I’d pick for the job, and a man who’s presence on the ballot might just have me pulling for “Lizard People”.  I’d like to say that Norm Coleman isn’t too bad a man, a Senator perhaps with a tad bit of sleaze as standard but in the grand scheme of party politics as being not the worst it’s hard to justify animosity toward — but that would describe just axed Oregon Senator Gordon Smith – when I look through Norm Coleman’s term in the Senate I see that he did take a strong stance in the trenches of some repugnant Republican causes du jour — a healthy dose of UN bashing and the go-to-guy in supporting John Bolton.

Wander over and about to see reactions and I see a blog post yesterday posted this image, intoning the end of Our Republic.  For the sense of good taste, I’ve shrunk the image… and it does serve as an argument against Hi-Definition big screen television…

How can a state in these United States have just elected a public official with an image like that circulating around?  And, given how Saturday Night Live has always sort of dragged on through the last half of its 90 minutes, there has to be many more broad visual vignettes such as that one out there.  Indeed, we can expect this image to find its way into an Al Qaeda propaganda any day now, as per this comment.

You know, our enemies hate us already. Seeing crap like this just makes it easier for them to hate us and for our allies to loose respect for us

One thing I can say about a photograph of Al Franken wearing a diaper …

UHH Texas D……..Do you realize that that’s the junior senator from Minnesota wearing a FUCKING DIAPER!?
He has already made a fool of himself before becoming a senator.
Did you ever listen to his libtard ass radio show?*
Thank you hiram.

is to wonder if maybe other Senators haven’t been photographed in more compromising positions wearing diapers.  The obvious candidate is Louisiana Senator David Vitter, (who, in this last Senate, co-sponsored with Idaho Senator Lary Craig a Craig – Vitter Marriage Protection Bill, just to serve up something for the peanut gallery to laugh at, I suppose)  but it seems evident that the prostitute he bought services from follow the confidentiality agreement in not taking those photographs — otherwise Larry Flynt or the National Inquirer would have already showered us with them.  The upshot is that al Qaeda will be able to pepper their propanda with multiple Senators wearing diapers as grown men.
 

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(* I’ll answer that question:  Yes.  It was something of a sedative, and it became clearer and clearer that Franken was steering toward a sort of middle of the road (one of his friendly weekly guests was best called “Center – Right”) in prepping for a Senate bid, though with that it also seems clear he was using the show to brush up on policy… the result was always, um… mixed?.  In terms of running for office, it does make him more comfortable than a Randi Rhodes or a Rush Limbaugh.

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