Al Franken, escorted by his senior colleague, Amy Klobuchar and by a former holder of Minnesota’s Class II U.S. Senate seat, Walter Mondale, went to the front of the Senate chamber and was administered the oath of office [on a Bible formerly owned by another predecessor in that seat, Paul Wellstone] by that body’s president, Joseph Biden.
There were some questions one might have raised. Why Mondale? Most senators just use the state’s other. Wellstone used Mondale, but that was because he was disgusted with the ethics [or lack thereof] of his colleague, David Durenberger. And, Didn’t he have a Bible of his own?
Now we have two senators. Never mind that more than four of every seven who bothered to vote last year voted against o9ne of them, if we believe some of the muttering we have heard the last few months we are now at Nirvana.
Constitutional Conundrum
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Our President has been totally busted using Presidential pressure to
influence a foreign nation for personal and, especially, political gain.
There is no g...
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