On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:12:10 -0700, jps wrote:


James Inhofe, among the assholiest of assholes...

Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) called the newly-certified senator from
Minnesota, Al Franken, a "clown" on Wednesday and said Franken's
presence in the Senate -- which gives the Democrats a "super-majority"
of 60 votes -- won't be enough to pass health care reform


This guy is a good candidate for rose bush stem therapy up his arse.


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“I didn’t mean to be disrespectful. I don’t know the guy, but … for a
living he is a clown,’’ said Inhofe.“That’s what he does for a
living.’’

Inhofe was evidently referring to Franken's two-decade-long career as
a comedy writer for Saturday Night Live, during which he sometimes
appeared on camera as a performer.

In the 1990s, Franken began to shift his attention from comedy to
politics, penning best-selling books such as Lies and the Lying Liars
who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, and Rush
Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations.

After a nine-month legal battle against incumbent Norm Coleman,
Franken was certified the winner of Minnesota's 2008 senatorial race
this week, with a vote margin of little more than 300 votes.

"How utterly disrepectful and shameful," Carl Bentham writes on his
Talking Points memo blog. "Yes, Al Franken is a comedian and he has
made a lot of stupid jokes. But he's also proven himself to be
intelligent and knowledgeable about policy. To dismiss him as 'a
clown' is an ugly ad-hominem attack, a distortion of his character,
the sort of commentary one would expect from an pitiful schoolyard
bully rather than a United States Senator."