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Al Franken’s office has been reaching out to a lot of folks this evening making the point that Sen. Franken refused to let Sen. Lieberman go over his alloted 10 minutes because he was under strict instructions from the leadership to keep everyone to the clock so that they don’t run out of time to get this thing done before Christmas. When I was reading Joan Walsh’s post about the brouhaha, I noticed that the leader she got from Franken’s office came from Communications Director Casey Aden-Wansbury. That struck me as kind of funny since Aden-Wansbury used to have the same job for another senator by the name of Joe Lieberman.
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Everyone’s having a lot of fun with this snippet of video in which Sen. Franken refuses to allow Sen. Lieberman to speak past his alloted ten minutes. But as TPM Reader LF points out, the real gold in this clip is watching Sen. McCain continue his rich and longstanding personal tradition of talking out of parts of his body other than his mouth … and for once getting called on it. “I don’t know what’s happening here in this body, but I think it’s wrong.” This was what McCain said after Franken objected to an extension of time for Lieberman, but it’s classic McCain–come in to a situation he knows nothing about and cause a problem–and then, as Carl Levin demonstrates, gets proven wrong when he points out that this had happened earlier in the afternoon. It was like when Republicans were pissed at McCain for parachuting into the Immigration Reform debate a couple of years ago, and when he “suspended” his campaign to parachute into the Wall Street bailout
