I’m baffled by this decision. Why do they think it’s helpful to pick at this fresh wound? Franken has already agreed to resign and has timed his resignation to coincide with the recess. Minnesota’s Governor has nominated a replacement, Tina Smith, and has at the same time caused a panic among Minnesota Republicans who…

One of Trump’s previous nominees actually did that, so now they have to ask that question explicitly.

His reasons for folding are typically mealy mouthed.

I agree. There are only a couple of senators who hypothetically might have stood up and all of them folded a long time ago. Jeff Flake and Susan Collins were snowed by worthless promises by Mitch McConnell to consider other legislation to help repair ACA and DACA (promises that were made only by McConnell and NOT by…

Corker is if anything even more disappointing since he didn’t even get a token concession in exchange for his vote. If you read his statement on Twitter, it boils down to, “Even though I said I would never vote for a tax bill that increased the deficit, it turns out that I don’t mean that any more.” His reasons are…

McConnell will likely refuse to seat Jones until January. I don’t think they are going to give up on the tax bill and they will hold onto Big Luther for the entirety of this year.

I was half expecting YOU to be pumaloaf or whatever her name is. Thanks for the tip.

What the fuck is going on in this place?

Ethicon more like UNethicon amirite ladies

State legislative seats are crucial. If you want to stop gerrymandering, that’s where you need that start (state legislatures draw election districts).

I’m not sure the Dems really have a candidate like Moore (insanely popular in a single state or district but widely despised almost everywhere else).

You don’t know where the stereotype came from? Given how old it is, doesn’t it make more sense to think that it’s based on size and muscle mass rather than genetics (the latter of which no one would have ever been able to observe for most of human history)?

I wonder how many rehearsals they had to do before they were sure this wouldn’t end in horror.

If you’re a career DOJ Attorney, you must wake up every morning unclear whether the rest of your day will be spent hastily retrofit legal justifications for policies that were formed and published by a man sitting on a toilet at 5:30 am that same morning. Which would be hard enough by itself, except whatever legal…

Yeah it kind of bothers me the way people who have had personal problems are being lumped in with abusers or harassers.

Wait, 3%? That’s a lot higher than I expected it to be.

I agree. The initial story that he “discussed surrogacy in the office” was so bland that it couldn’t be the whole story.

Luckily, nothing else is going on in Jared’s life right now so he can give his full concentration to the thorny crisis in the Middle East.

Isn’t Avatar getting four sequels for some reason?

GRASSLEY: “Come on.”