From Al Franken regarding Barr......

[a kennedy]

Barr: “I’m Sully!”
Franni and I have been in NYC, busy with baby-duty. Trying to make our son and daughter-in-law’s lives just a little less exhausting.
So, I just caught up with one of the Barr hearings. The one where Chris Coons asks Barr if he had talked to the White House about the Mueller Report. Barr said he wasn’t going to answer because, “I’m landing the plane.” So, that’s obviously a “yes,” because if he hadn’t talked to “the White House,” Barr would have said “no.”
That would have been nice for someone to point out.
But the weirdest thing was Barr’s excuse. “I’m landing the plane.” I’m landing the plane? Is that supposed to be hard? If you are a pilot, say, a career pilot in his late sixties, landing a plane is not difficult. I’ve been in the cockpit of a 747 while it’s landing. There is a computer that tells the pilot the altitude of the plane. Literally says it out loud. It goes like this: “Four hundred feet…three hundred feet…two hundred feet…one hundred feet…ninety feet…eighty feet…” I knew the plane was going to land right after, “ten feet.”
Is “landing the plane” supposed to be the same as “pulling the baby out of the fire?” He’s the attorney general. He’s releasing a report. Is figuring out what to redact and not redact really that hard? You redact stuff that’s classified, or that a grand jury heard that’s not supposed to be made public for whatever reason you don’t make some grand jury findings public. I haven’t been a lawyer for forty-seven years. Barr has, give or take a year. (This is not worth Googling.) Why is that so hard that you can’t answer a simple question?
Does Barr think he’s Sully? Has a flock of birds flown into all the plane’s engines? Is he landing in the Hudson?
If talking to the White House was that compromising, here’s what you do – Don’t talk to the White House! That way you don’t have to look really shady. Just when you’re about to land the plane.

[vlyons]

1. Landing the plane -- translation

I'm ever so carefully ensuring that Trump gets what he wants, and the Republican party stays in power to enact even more tax breaks for the wealthy.

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Or maybe "I don't dare land this plane or we're all fucked, so I'm circling until we're out of gas"

And hence the stretch of time in which he's landing the plane will be dragged on as long as possible.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

34. "I'm saving Trump and his family's asses."

"Isn't that why I interviewed for this job?"

[rzemanfl]

2. Miss him. Don't get me started. n/t

[Phoenix61]

4. Right there with ya. nt

[Paladin]

7. What a travesty, not having Franken actively and continuously involved. (nt)

[Arkansas Granny]

11. I know the feeling.

[KPN]

20. Ditto.

[LakeArenal]

24. I'm in your club. Franken 2020. ☹️

[wellst0nev0ter]

35. And now Gillibrand threw Omar under the bus

I wish she's stick up for dems.

[disndat]

42. I wish someone would throw Gillibrand

under a bus. She did the single most damaging thing to the Democrats ( and the country) with her sharp elbows
Did I see her standing next to Bernie Sanders at his rally yesterday? She is so desperate for attention, being at the bottom
or under the ladder.

[Control-Z]

48. What did she do now?

What did she say? My feelings for her grow every time I hear something about her. I really don't like her. It just gets worse and worse.

[UpInArms]

41. Not enough words to describe the loss of his leadership

Am so crazed that he was sidelined by our own ...

[BootinUp]

45. +8

[kentuck]

3. Before Barr referenced "landing the plane"..

Senator Kennedy (LA) used the same reference?

I wondered whether Barr shared his comments with the Repubs on the Committee?

[mazzarro]

18. Probably so.

I will always believe that republicon leadership always look out for and take care of their own no matter what!

[Jakes Progress]

21. And unfortunately

the Democrats will continually eat their own - Al being a case in point.

[eShirl]

5. Is "landing the plane" supposed to be the same as "pulling the baby out of the fire?"

-imagine a pic of the Trump Baby balloon here-

[Bayard]

6. It would have been lovely...

To see Al in these hearings.

[struggle4progress]

8. "I got no good excuse to not answer, so let's try some vague important-sounding blather"

[oasis]

47. +1

[IndyOp]

9. link please (nt)

[a kennedy]

15. It's from his Facebook page.......here.

https://m.facebook.com/senatoralfranken/

[dhol82]

25. Thanks!

Nice find.

[friend of m and j]

38. A great find.

Thanks

[TryLogic]

12. I am waiting to find out who the so-called peripheral third parties are.

I'm guessing Nunes is at the top of the list. McConnell? NRA president? etc.

[Honeycombe8]

13. Brilliant! Franken for President...I hope...in my lifetime.

And never to hear again about or from those who sandbagged him.

[lagomorph777]

39. "That would have been nice for someone to point out." Understatement as art form.

Spot on, Al!

[Honeycombe8]

43. He's the best at understatement. nt

[pdsimdars]

14. We still need strong minds like Al's in the Senate.

[The Wizard]

16. Barr should be

disbarred for corruption, malpractice, and gross negligence.

[Delphinus]

17. Amen!

[lagomorph777]

40. Disbarred, de-frocked, and defenestrated.

For starters.

[Kurt V.]

19. franken sees things other pols don't then clearly explains it with wit. Land the damn plane barr!

[Jakes Progress]

22. barr would have had a hard time getting confirmed

if we had Al on the job when the toady went before committee. Al would have destroyed someone as incompetent and crooked as barr.

Score for breitbart. Shame on the Democrats.

[dhol82]

26. +1

[demtenjeep]

23. missing his voice in the Senate

which is why I would never vote for Gilibrand

[stuffmatters]

27. I kept thinking: Franken could expose, deflate this bloviating, lying, Trump stooge Barr the best.

Franken's specialty, the skill of questioning & flustering Trumpers into cul de sacs where they can only show themselves to be clowns & criminals.

[Buckeyeblue]

28. Frankin should run for president. Seriously

All he has to say about his resignation is this: I resigned because I didn't want to be a distraction. And I wanted to reflect on my behavior with women that I have interacted with over the years. Upon reflection, I have been a little too touchy, too quick to kiss. I promise you that I didn't mean anything sexual. But looking at this from a woman's point of view, who has had different and varied life experiences, I can understand how some women may have walked away from interactions with me thinking that I had encroached on their personal space. I recognize this. I apologize for this. And I have stopped doing it. The one thing about your personal behavior is that you can correct things. I have corrected mine.

Now...let's talk about our country....

[Stinky The Clown]

29. I HATE and cannot forgive the fact that the best Senator of the current generation . . . .

. . . . . was forced out by our own side. The architect of that can KISS MY KNARLY PASTY ASS.

[Sogo]

30. One reason I would never vote for

Gillibrand.

[demtenjeep]

36. me too

I have heard her talk twice. I was not impressed

[Lifelong Protester]

49. This 1000%

[58Sunliner]

31. The plane already landed, without you, a week or so ago, you fucker. Stop stalling.

[zentrum]

32. Come back more Al!

[VOX]

33. I'm imagining Al serving at that hearing and questioning Barr

It’s a place & time & situation that was tailor-made for Al. He would have tap-danced on Barr’s thick skull.

But Al’s not there, because of a blink-and-you-miss-it caving-in to a right-wing orchestrated hit job— all done with the R’s goal of removing his brilliance from oversight/ethical situations exactly like this.

[DFW]

37. Barr should be, quite simply, dis-barred

He is not defending the law, but rather looking for ways to circumvent it.

As for Al, he is (or was recently, anyway) 100% NOT interested in returning to a Senate where a third of the Senators are people who fell lock, stock and barrel for a Republican scam would again be his Democratic colleagues.

I will, I hope, never see another Democratic victim of such base opportunism, and I will not give any of the ones running for president a dime. Not one of them inspires me anyway, so it is not an anguished decision.

It may be selfish of me, but I hope Al is writing another of his brilliant books chronicling his observations of Washington.

[MFGsunny]

44. Al Franken :: Terrific Truth Treasure this man is! MISS HIM in the Senate

He is soooooooooooooooooo skilled in the art of "picture worth a 1,000 words" that his verbal

images are worth well over a 1,000,000 words.

[Nitram]

46. Al still has the stuff. We need him back in Congress.