Here’s how The New York Times put Al Franken’s official ascent (or decent, depending on your perspective) into the Senate: “Franken, Without the Quips, Takes On New Role.”  http://tinyurl.com/npccxp .  

That’s right–we’ve begun sending in the clowns.  Franken, a comedian, is now a senator and, well, I couldn’t be happier.   I’m not necessarily talking politics here; just propriety.  We don’t have to put on our hip high boots to wade through the sordid details, but both sides of the isle have revealed themselves as degenerates of one laughable (or tragic, depending on your perspective) degenerate stripe after another.   Why stand on ceremony anymore?  Why not skip the middleman altogether and start sending in the clowns directly?   And could this maybe be the start of an even more fitting turn of events?  Can we start sending in the pimps too?

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