It's a perfect Christmas gift for conservatives: Senate Democrats beclowning themselves in defense of a professional clown who sits among them.  Poor Al Franken was relegated to the status of collateral damage in the desperation of his Senate Democrat colleagues to use claims of sexual harassment as a tool to expel Roy Moore, the presumptive winner of Alabama's special election to replace Jeff Sessions.  Instead, they watched as Moore was defeated, and the expectation that Moore would be a handy albatross to hang on the neck of President Donald Trump evaporated before their eyes.  They had anticipated that the expulsion of Moore would lead to Democrat congressional majorities and thus the nirvana of impeachment, the holy grail of Democrat politics at the moment. Franken's promise to resign "in the coming weeks" was an obvious move to hedge against the possibility of Moore being defeated.  And now that there is no political gain to...(Read Full Post)