Al Franken lays into David Axelrod over health care bill

[spiritual_gunfighter]

Sen. Al Franken ripped into White House senior adviser David Axelrod this week during a tense, closed-door session with Senate Democrats.

Five sources who were in the room tell POLITICO that Franken criticized Axelrod for the administration’s failure to provide clarity or direction on health care and the other big bills it wants Congress to enact.

The sources said Franken was the most outspoken senator in the meeting, which followed President Barack Obama’s question-and-answer session with Senate Democrats at the Newseum on Wednesday. But they also said the Minnesotan wasn’t the only angry Democrat in the room.

“There was a lot of frustration in there,” said a Democratic senator who declined to be identified.

“People were hot,” another Democratic senator said.

Democratic senators are frustrated that the White House hasn’t done more to win over the public on health care reform and other aspects of its ambitious agenda — and angry that, in the wake of Scott Brown’s win in the Massachusetts Senate race, the White House hasn’t done more to chart a course for getting a health care bill to the president’s desk.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/32561.html#ixzz0efnGGkA8

[theoldman]

1. Franken is no comedian when it comes to politics.

[rurallib]

2. Franken is turning into a senator DU can appreciate.

[joeybee12]

3. Yup.

He actually thinks Senators should do their jobs as opposed to the other 99 who think all they should do is try and KEEP their jobs.

[grytpype]

4. But he voted for the Senate HCR bill! The hated Senate HCR bill!!!!

Resisting urge to c**...

[yurbud]

5. Go, Al! Chase Supply Side Jesus out of the Senate--and the White House!

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/09/17_franken.html

[Uncle Joe]

6. I'm wondering if Politico uses the adjective; "conservative" to describe conservatives?

"Franken — a comedian turned liberal talk show host — vowed to keep a relatively low profile when he arrived in the Senate over the summer after a protracted legal battle with former GOP Sen. Norm Coleman. But he has developed a reputation among his colleagues as one of the more aggressive personalities on the Hill."

One thing I've noticed about the corporate media, they rarely if ever do so, I believe this is because conservatives are most likely to be in corporate back pockets and painting conservatives as being anything but in the mainstream goes against corporate media and their commercial buying clients' primary interests.

I also believe Senator Franken is doing an outstanding job representing the best interests of Minnesota and the American People as a whole and this B.S. about political labeling someone is a typical corporate media propaganda divide and conquer tactic.

Thanks for the thread spiritual_gunfighter.