FRANKEN WOBBLY – AT 11:53 A.M. ET:  Senator Al Franken of Minnesota returns to work today, facing a series of series sexual harassment allegations.  He refuses to resign, but the people of his state are turning against him.  He's up for re-election in 2020, so he has time to repair the damage, if it can be repaired.  From The Hill: 

Just 22 percent of Minnesotans in a new survey say Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) should stay in office.
A KSTP/SurveyUSA poll finds in the wake of sexual harassment allegations against Franken, only 22 percent of Minnesotans think he should remain in his post, compared to 33 percent who say he should resign.

Another 36 percent think he should wait to see what comes from a Senate Ethics Committee investigation into his behavior.

Of Republicans surveyed, only 12 percent think Franken should remain in office, compared to 61 percent who say he should resign.

A larger percentage of the polled Democrats think Franken should stay, with 34 percent saying he should remain in office and 14 percent saying he should resign. Forty-six percent of Democrats think he should wait for the results of an ethics investigation.

Just 32 percent of respondents say Franken can be an "effective" senator if he remains in office.

Another 37 percent say he would be an "ineffective" senator and 32 percent aren't sure.

Franken's approval rating in Minnesota has also dropped. Thirty-six percent of respondents approve of the job Franken is doing, compared with 53 percent who approved of the Minnesota Democrat in November 2016.

COMMENT:   The hunt is on, and many are anticipating other charges against Washington bigs.  One effect of all this is to neutralize the Democratic Party's assertion that it is the party of women.  There's evidence a-building that plenty of high Democrats participated in, or covered up, sexual abuse in Congress over the years.

Some may have committed felonies.  There are serious, credible charges that Congressman John Conyers, who has just stepped aside temporarily as ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, used federal funds to pay off women who knew too much about him.

The walls of hypocrisy are crumbling. 

November 27, 2017