{"id":26767,"date":"2009-07-06T14:52:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T14:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/07\/06\/the-liberal-blogosphere-eyes-a\/"},"modified":"2009-07-06T14:52:56","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T14:52:56","slug":"the-liberal-blogosphere-eyes-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/06\/the-liberal-blogosphere-eyes-a\/","title":{"rendered":"The liberal blogosphere eyes Al Franken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Al Franken goes to Washington.<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/04\/i_personally_put_al_franken_in.php\">  And we helped.  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, it is time to kick his ass.<\/p>\n<p>This is the difference between the dittoheads who will follow the anointed head of the Republican Party into a big pile of dogshit if he so orders them and us.  They follow their sens less leaders, they stomp their feet and whinge and threaten, but it takes forever for even the most thoughtful Republicans to even begin to question their leaders.  But we in the Liberal Blogosphere do not do this.  We watch and we evaluate and we comment and we do not give anyone a pass just becasue we voted for them.<\/p>\n<p>So how is Al Franken doing so far?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senator-elect Al Franken made his first official appearance on Capitol Hill moments ago, appearing briefly (and quite sedately) with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to make a statement to reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking before a bank of microphones in the ornate hallway just off the Senate floor, Franken gave no hint of his former incarnation as a comedian and political jokesmith. Wearing a dark suit with a conservative navy-and-white striped tie, Franken spoke seriously as he delivered a shortened version of his stump speech.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot has been made about this number &#8217;60,&#8217; but the number I&#8217;m focused on is the number two,&#8221; Franken said. &#8220;I see myself as the second senator from the state of Minnesota.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsdaily.com\/2009\/07\/06\/okes-aside-al-franken-on-capitol-hill-ready-to-get-to-work\/\">source<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, Al.  So far so good.  Keep up the good work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Al Franken goes to Washington. And we helped. Now, it is time to kick his ass. This is the difference between the dittoheads who will follow the anointed head of the Republican Party into a big pile of dogshit if he so orders them and us. They follow their sens less leaders, they stomp &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/06\/the-liberal-blogosphere-eyes-a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The liberal blogosphere eyes Al Franken<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[208],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6XJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}