Al Franken tells Lieberman to clam up. The method? Simply capping talk time. Something like a pay as you go cell phone plan…and unfortunately Franken wasn’t accepting payments in “boring everyone’s ass off”. Oh the health care debate…

This guy (Irish MP Paul Gogarty) takes a completely different tack: that of declaring his intent to use unparliamentary language and letting loose on this old dude. Unfortunately, beginning a legislative tirade with a disclaimer is kind of like declaring that you are about to fart: The warning may be well intentioned but it doesn’t do much to mitigate the stench that follows: