Al Franken the Maverick and Other Election Season Funnies

"I will vote no for certain things, even if 85 senators vote for it. ... I guess, maybe I'm just, I don't know, a maverick," Franken said, 

• John McCain; "I'm Not President Bush". Odd, but McCain voted with Bush 95 percent of the time. (Mitchell Bard- Huffington Post).
  
• We seem not to mind socialist for the rich -- or for Congress. (Erica Jong)
  
• Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., ranks no. 19 of the 100 United States senators in terms of personal wealth, according to a new analysis of personal-finance disclosure reports by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.The Center estimated McConnell's 2007 net worth at about $7.8 million. Much of McConnell's fortune comes from his marriage to Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, who has spent time in the worlds of banking and corporate boards, and whose father is a wealthy shipping magnate in New York. He still attacks Bruce Lundsford as a fat cat. At least Bruce did some honest work to get his money. 
• This is the first race since Watergate that the Republicans have been so desperate that they've had to use plumbers... (Charlie Cray- Huffington Post)