{"id":26722,"date":"2017-12-06T21:51:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T21:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26722"},"modified":"2017-12-06T21:51:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T21:51:56","slug":"best-guess-franken-soon-to-become-a-former-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26722","title":{"rendered":"Best guess: Franken soon to become a &#8216;former senator&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/franken-ap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26248\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/franken-ap-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/franken-ap-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/franken-ap.jpg 738w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The late &#8220;Dandy Don&#8221; Meredith, the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and football commentator, was fond of singing &#8220;turn out the lights, the party&#8217;s over&#8221; when a pro football team was blowing another one out on national TV.<\/p>\n<p>Um, U.S. Sen. Al Franken? The party appears to be over.<\/p>\n<p>More women have come forward to accuse the Minnesota Democrat of groping and unwanted kissing. Droves of Democratic senators now are singing the same chorus: Franken has to quit.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds to me as though the party is over.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/363543-women-in-senate-call-for-franken-to-resign\">Senators turn on one of their own<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a friend of mine noted on Facebook, Franken is about to &#8220;spend more time with his family,&#8221; but he wonders whether his family will want to spend more time with him.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s all understand something here. There have been no criminal charges filed against Franken. This is purely a political matter. There&#8217;s an element of &#8220;due process&#8221; to follow, but it&#8217;s not nearly as critical as it would be if there was criminality involved.<\/p>\n<p>The process is supposed to include an ethics investigation by a Senate committee charged with looking at these matters.<\/p>\n<p>But just as Rep. John Conyers was damaged beyond repair over the allegations that took him out of office, the same appears to be said of Franken.<\/p>\n<p>If his fellow Democrats are turning on him in this fashion, Franken cannot possibly continue to serve in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>So much for a 2020 presidential campaign, eh?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late &#8220;Dandy Don&#8221; Meredith, the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and football commentator, was fond of singing &#8220;turn out the lights, the party&#8217;s over&#8221; when a pro football team was blowing another one out on national TV. Um, U.S. Sen. Al Franken? The party appears to be over. More women have come forward to accuse &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26722\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Best guess: Franken soon to become a &#8216;former senator&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[216,4234,4237],"class_list":["post-26722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","tag-al-franken","tag-sexual-abuse","tag-sexual-harassment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26724,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26722\/revisions\/26724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}