Al Franken is guilty of sexual abuse. Guilty enough that he’s not even attempting a denial but going straight to apology mode. This is a golden opportunity for the Democratic Party to show up Republicans by behaving non-hypocritically and immediately start screaming for his resignation. After all, this is not just an accusation, it’s a provable accusation with pictures. This accusation has no doubts or denials.
Senator Franken's provable abuse of Leeann Tweeden is coming to light amidst abuse charges against Roy Moore. But even though the charges against Roy Moore are still unproven Republicans are falling all over themselves calling for him to step down so in that way, Republicans are ahead of Democrats on trying to keep their side of the street clean. They aren’t even waiting for charges against Moore to be proven but are trying to give him the heave-ho based only on accusations. Democrats already have proven charges against Senator Franken plus he’s admitted to it and apologized.
So can we expect Democrats call out just as loudly for Al Franken to step down as Republicans are doing with Roy Moore? Or maybe even louder since there is no wiggle room, denial or doubt to the abuse charges against Senator Franken. Safe to assume they’d rather not. Both parties are concerned more with their own power than with the rights of women and the Democrats can’t afford to lose a Democratic senator. Republicans would much prefer that allegations against Roy Moore had never come to light also and if they thought it were possible to keep Moore on board, they’d do so. Power comes first, right and wrong are always a very distant second with both parties.
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