Al Franken: “the two bills here in the Senate present very serious threats to our privacy and civil liberties.”

We have to pass this bill and you can carve out and say for, you know, elections, this is our democracy.

It is, I still believe it will happen. Because it kind of has to, and I wish they would get on with it.

I think what McConnell was worried about is that this is a game of chicken and McConnell blinked because Democrats could have just changed the rules.

You`re right, we started getting these tea party types, including Rand, and it was -- it was very upsetting, of course. Now, they did very quickly shift to opposing the Affordable Care Act and, of course, when they finally saw what the…