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To: FJB who wrote (482112)4/12/2012 4:47:37 AM
From: FJB  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 794046
 
Vice President Joe Biden described former Saturday Night Live comedian, Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., as a "leading legal scholar," presumably in the Senate, today.

"He has been one of the leading legal scholars," Biden said of Franken today, according to the pool report. He also said that Franken "is deadly serious" as a senator. He made the comments while recalling concerns that then-candidate Franken could not be taken seriously as a Senate candidate given his SNL work.

Franken's comedic spirit got him in trouble on Washington. "This isn't ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Al," Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had to remind the freshman senator after Franken made faces while McConnell spoke during the Supreme Court nomination process for Elena Kagan.

Kagan is now regarded as an able defender of Obamacare, which could be struck after oral arguments last month seemed to indicate that five of the nine justices regard it as unconstitutional.

campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com



To: FJB who wrote (482112)4/12/2012 4:58:51 AM
From: LindyBill1 Recommendation  Respond to of 794046
 
RE: Funding the Pals.

I hate to keep saying this, but can you imagine the outcry if Bush had done this to a Dem Congress?



To: FJB who wrote (482112)4/12/2012 10:15:33 AM
From: Farmboy1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 794046
 
She is just doing what she and her boss want done. It's being done in her name because she doesn't have an election to worry about.