We cats like our Senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, very much — but you can't agree with someone on everything, can you? So we're parting ways with her today on the question of Senator Al Franken. We sincerely hope that tomorrow, Senator Franken does not resign.
We've already opined on Franken's unfortunate #MeToo behavior, so we don't need to bore you by repeating ourselves. But events have moved so swiftly since then that now we need to come to Al's defense. Not only is he a good guy and a great advocate for women's rights, but his offenses just don't rise to the level of, say, Donald Trump's or Clarence Thomas's. (Or that Republican nutcase who's running for Senate in Alabama.) Why should he fall on his sword if those jackasses don't? Plus it feels like a right-wing setup, not that that excuses anything.
It all just makes us sigh, because this is how Republicans always have us over a barrel — they know that we believe in doing the right thing, and they don't. Frustrated as we are, though, we have a few suggestions that Democrats might want to consider:
Let Franken resign, but only if Roy Moore wins Jeff Sessions's Senate seat next week. After which Al says, "I'm not serving in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body with an accused pedophile!"
Let Franken resign, but only if the "Apprentice" sexual misconduct case against Trump is allowed to proceed.
Let Franken resign before the Alabama election, and have Governor Dayton appoint Congressman Keith Ellison to Al's seat — so there's a Muslim in the Senate waiting to greet Moore if he gets there. That would make us cats PURR.
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