GOP: "Conscience Votes" Are Just For Democrats, Not Us!

By Sniffles

It's been so interesting to see Republicans wring their hands over Al Franken's election to the Senate. They really seem upset about it!

So they cloak their angst in allegedly sage advice. Like: "Be serious." Excuse us, but what do they think Senator Franken's been doing for the last three years? We discovered very early on that once he declared his candidacy, Franken realized that his days of quoting Buddy Hackett jokes from the Catskills were behind him.

But the topper was a "longtime Republican Senate strategist" quoted in The Washington Post this morning. This anonymous idiot said that to establish his credibility, Senator Franken should "vote against the [Democratic] party on something he believes in."

Ridiculous. We cats remember three Republican Senators named Specter, Collins and Snowe voting against their party on the stimulus a few months ago. It was something they really believed in. But that went over in the GOP like a lead balloon.

(PHOTO: Jenna Isaacson, St. Paul Pioneer Press)