re: #359 Barefoot Grin

Dahlia Lithwick writes:

….Al Franken, many argue, should now resign. He should resign immediately because there are credible accusers (another emerged Wednesday), and because the behavior alleged is sufficiently abhorrent that there is simply no basis to defend him. In this parade of unilateral disarmament, Trump stays, Conyers goes, Moore stays, Franken goes.

Is this the principled solution? By every metric I can think of, it’s correct…

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This isn’t a call to become tolerant of awful behavior. It is a call for understanding that Democrats honored the blue slip, and Republicans didn’t. Democrats had hearings over the Affordable Care Act; Republicans had none over the tax bill. Democrats decry predators in the media; Republicans give them their own networks. And what do Democrats have to show for it? There is something almost eerily self-regarding in the notion that the only thing that matters is what Democrats do, without considering what the systemic consequences are for everyone….

I’m torn. I hate this world we’re living in right now.

slate.com

I think I’ve read this article already without reading the article.

I think it was posted here…in several comments.

And we still labor over the facts.

And the facts seem to be: do the right thing and pay for it.

And all the good a Franken could do is gone…and all the evil a Roy Moore will do survives and is rewarded.

I too hate this world we are living in. And one added comment…the Republicans tell me they want a country based on Judeo-Christian rule.

When are they going to act like it?