I think that at the end, it was the drip, drip, drip

[question everything]

that we are all too familiar with the DNC and Hillary's email during the two weeks before the elections.

The Republicans were probably behind it, but the fact was that every day, or every other day, another women came with claims against Franken. Even the anonymous ones, they were mentioned.

And Franken was forced to at least acknowledge them. And we don't know how many were in the pipeline, false or not.

And at the end, even if he stayed and waited for the Ethics committee, this would have reduced his effectiveness. We, of course, and many on DU would continue to love and trust him, but he would be damaged. This is the way politics works.

I feel strange to rely on a WSJ editorial against Roy Moore, but what it said that was this was not a court of law where one is innocent until proven guilty, where we need proof. This is politics and the image is important. (OK, the WSJ wanted to defeat Moore because it meant defeating Bannon..)

This is when we have to return to Jimmy Carter who said: "there are many things in life that are not fair" . Not fair, indeed.