"Angry" Al Franken showed up at yet another Senate closed door meeting.  The latest target of Angry Al's ire?  Obama advisor David Axelrod.  Politico has the story....

Sen. Al Franken ripped into White House senior adviser David Axelrod 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 wasn’t the only angry Democrat in the room.

Al may have not been the only angry Demcorat in the room, but he is the one that staffers and participants are talking about and with good reason.  Angry Al has already garnered a reputation within Senate halls.

Franken — a comedian turned liberal talk show host — vowed to keep a relatively low profile when he arrived in the Senate over the summer after a protracted legal battle with former GOP Sen. Norm Coleman. But he has developed a reputation among his colleagues as one of the more aggressive personalities on the Hill.

Last November, after Tennessee Republican Sens. Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander authored an op-ed in a local paper defending their opposition to a Franken amendment, Franken confronted both men on the floor — and grew particularly irritated with Corker.

He lashed out at Corker and a staff member in a follow-up meeting about the matter, several people said. Franken also clashed with South Dakota Sen. John Thune, No. 4 in GOP leadership, last month in a scathing speech during the health care debate, and staffers have reported other run-ins.

Whodathunk it?  Angry Al getting clashes with fellow members of the "worlds greatest deliberative body"?  I'm shocked to hear it!  The only thing more shocking to me is the fact that President Obama (in the words of his own party) done enough to chart a course to get the bill passed.

Democratic senators are frustrated that the White House hasn’t done more to win over the public on health care reform and other aspects of its ambitious agenda — and angry that, in the wake of Scott Brown’s win in the Massachusetts Senate race, the White House hasn’t done more to chart a course for getting a health care bill to the president’s desk.

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.

Gee guys - when you picked a guy to lead your party who has a history of voting "present" on the tough issues, did you honestly think that he would suddenly take a strong stand on this (or any issue)?  Honestly?????

Then again, did Minnesota expect different from someone who has been known for getting into physical alterations with people who dare to espouse an opinion that does not agree with Angry Al's?  Way to go guys!