My link was there to provide an audio record, nothing more. I know nothing of this Bob Collins person, nor of any axes he may have to grind.

You going to admit that you were misinformed about the Franken’s actual time management? and about the nature of his questions?

July 16th, 2009
11:07 am

To have just been sworn in, he handled himself very well. All politicians like to tell jokes and elicit laughter.

You guys own this bozo. Get used to 5 1/2 more years of that silliness.

Even your own link gave the “Senator” a C-.

July 16th, 2009
8:14 am

Thanks for clearing that up. I had only watched a few minutes of it.

July 16th, 2009
6:40 am

Since when did covert mean illegal? The entire “war” should have been fought covertly.

What nonsense.

Here is a link to audio of his questions, along with a rough transcript. I know you won’t bother to listen to any of it, but I decided to make a note of the total time, and the point at which Franken asked about Perry Mason.

He had about a half hour. His questions focused on:

1. FCC regs,

2. what she thought of the term “activist”,

3. the Voting Rights Act,

4. Gross v. FBL Financial Services, and

5. privacy rights.

At around the 28.42 mark, Franken says “I have a Round 2″ and says he’ll have more questions that he’d like to cover, on another day, but with his whopping 1 minute and 16 seconds left, which is not enough time to get into the weeds of the kind of policy wonkery he’d covered already, he finally lightens up and, yes, asks the Perry Mason question. He had one (1) one-liner–a genuinely funny one: “Didn’t the White House prepare you for that?”–and wrapped up.

Compare that time management to the umteenth time I’ve heard this Republican senator or that go on and on and ON about the “wise latina” speech, and ignore her actual case work.

And Dave, that observation of mine is based on actual raw-audio-feeds I’ve heard when time has permitted, podcast over at wnyc.org, not sound-bitey stuff fed to me by pundits.

As if the guy doesn’t get enough attention….

TNGelding

Moyers says something I can agree with. Good start for the day.

Report/Whine

Might I suggest Liberal Democrats burnish their credentials and call hearings on the various ways the Roosevelt Administration trashed our liberties and laws in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor? It would provide a fine historical comparison between Presidents Roosevelt and Bush.

Here, here.