Someone else who won't get email responses from Klobuchar's office

[dflprincess]

This was in a commentary in Sunday's Strib written by Bonnie Blodgett. It's a perfect description of our senior senator


http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentaries/210647401.html

...The conventional wisdom has it that our political discourse is robust. Too robust. Just watch Sunday-morning TV. But we conflate intensity of debate with decibel level. As a result it’s become a winning strategy not only to turn down the volume but to turn off the discussion as well.

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar is exceptionally adept at this. She has made her distaste for confrontation a campaign theme that she hopes will take her all the way to the White House. Better to “get things done,” as she puts it, than to engage in partisan bickering.

Translation: Better to attach your name to a no-brainer bill protecting military women from rape than to lead on an extremely divisive topic like the Keystone pipeline or farm subsidies....

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Saw that! Definitely a perfect description of our conflict-averse senator.

[BainsBane]

2. rape in the military is hardly a no-brainer

or a minor issue.

[a kennedy]

3. Ever see our Senior Senator in action on the floor of the Senate??

She's like a social butterfly, always with a group and the center of attention. It's kinda funny really, then there's Al.....mostly by himself. It's rare to see him talking to any other Senators, and t's not that I watch C-SPIN on a regular basis only when important votes are being voted on, but I do enough watching to notice my two Senators in action.

[dflprincess]

4. I noticed that once and it made me think of

Scarlett O'Hara at the barbecue early in "Gone With the Wind".

Then I realized her buddy Lindsay Graham has probably been giving her southern belle lessons. Hopefully she won't take to having the vapors as often as Lindsay.

[question everything]

5. And they love her on some shows

like Chris Matthews. Oh, you are so nice. Don't remember who else (I don't watch many of those). They like their non-confrontational style, the Minnesota-nice, the bland Midwestern..