The ‘Angry Al’ side of Sen. Franken surfaced during President Obama’s visit with Senate Democrats:

Five sources who were in the room tell POLITICO that Franken criticized Axelrod for the administration’s failure to provide clarity or direction on health care and the other big bills it wants Congress to enact.

The sources said Franken was the most outspoken senator in the meeting, which followed President Barack Obama’s question-and-answer session with Senate Democrats at the Newseum on Wednesday. But they also said the Minnesotan wasn’t the only angry Democrat in the room. “There was a lot of frustration in there,” said a Democratic senator who declined to be identified.

Everyone knows that health care is dead this session. Still, Sen. Franken won’t let it go:

In his public session with the senators Wednesday, Obama urged them to “finish the job” on health care but did not lay out a path for doing so. That uncertainty appeared to trigger Franken’s anger, and the sources in the room said he laid out his concerns much more directly than any senator did in the earlier public session.

Sen. Franken’s temper is well-documented. Still, let’s not dismiss Sen. Franken’s less-than-stellar senatorial temperament and forget about President Obama’s less-than-stellar leadership abilities. Simply put, Democrats like Sen. Franken and President Obama are ideologues. They aren’t leaders.

That’s why the American people are rejecting their policies. I’ve often said that ideologues “never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.” Politicians like Sen. Franken, Speaker Pelosi and President Obama frequently overreach, thinking that their mandate reaches all the way to their special interest’s wish list items.

Health care failed because (a) the American people vehemently opposed it and (b) Scott Brown’s victory scared the daylights out of Democrats facing re-election in 2010 and 2012. It’s nothing more complicated than that.

Sen. Franken isn’t the only disillusioned far left lefty that’s upset with President Obama. Dissatisfaction isn’t difficult to find in the D-Kos diaries and other far left haunts.

That’s what happens when you send a toy messiah to do a man’s job. Put differently, smooth words might win elections but you can’t govern without gravitas.

Technorati: Al Franken, Angry Al, Temper, Health Care, President Obama, David Axelrod, Speaker Pelosi, Overreach, Mandate, Democrats, Scott Brown, TEA Parties, Republicans, Election 2010

Cross-posted at California Conservative