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http://theweek.com/articles/741994/al-franken-isnt-sorryNo one who listened carefully to Franken's remarks this morning could walk away from them with any notion of why he is bothering to resign. He stood there in his purple tie grinning smugly, explaining, as if to a sensitive child, why he had done nothing wrong. Without referring to any specific incident of sexual misconduct or even mentioning the names of any of his accusers, he calmly insinuated that all of the eight women who "have come forward to talk about how they felt my actions had affected them" are liars or victims of confusion.
He is "shocked," he said, by their stories. He is even — the poor man — "upset." But he is also "respectful," so respectful indeed that he worries that he might have given "the false impression that I was admitting to having done things I haven't done." What a pity. Franken should rest easy. I for one was not under any such impression. His conviction that he is wholly innocent of any crime or misconduct is perhaps the only aspect of this affair about which I am utterly certain.
Franken regrets nothing except the fact that he can no longer be an "effective" politician. He can, he tells us, hardly bring himself to "walk away from this job with so much work left done." His decision to abandon his political career was motivated not by personal guilt but out of selfless concern that a thorough investigation by a Senate ethics panel would exhaust his ability to fulfill his obligations towards the people of his home state. "Minnesotans," he said, "deserve a senator who can focus with all her energy on addressing the challenges they face every day."