Bickering increases as frustration boils over in Senate

Now its Al Franken’s turn to tear into the Obama White House team.

Sen. Al Franken (upper photo) ripped into White House senior adviser David Axelrod (lower photo) this week during a tense, closed-door session 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 [Franken] 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.

“People were hot,” another Democrat senator said.

Democrats in the senate are frustrated that the administration hasn’t done more to win over the public on ObamaCare and other items on Obama’s ambitious agenda.

Most senate Democrats have every reason to be frustrated. Without the dysfunctional leadership of the White House staff and the Democrat leadership in the house and senate there could have been a healthcare bill on Obama’s desk long ago.

Now, after Scott Brown’s win in the Massachusetts Senate race, the frustration of Democrat senators is boiling over.

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