You Can Call Him Al

A particularly good Al Franken podcast this week, since he always has an extremely good conversation every time he talks with Norm Ornstein, a resident scholar for the American Enterprise Institute.  As Al writes, “Veteran Washington observer Norm Ornstein tracks the erosion of norms that once allowed Washington to work. From Newt Gingrich instructing Republicans to demonize Democrats as “sick, corrupt, traitors” to Mitch McConnell denying Merrick Garland a hearing. The abandonment of fact-based evidence, shutting down the government, using the filibuster to grind the Senate to a halt, to a pathological President attacking the media as ‘enemies of the people.’”