Seriously. I can’t believe Stassa is this naive. This isn’t about bipartisanship. What the Democrats are doing right now isn’t pandering to Republicans, it’s dividing to conquer. They’re saying “hey, non-batshit crazy, moderate Republicans, come work with us instead of President Cheeto, the fundamentalist Christians…

Driving the god damn wedge is what got us, as a nation, into this mess in the first place. Where I disagree with you is the theory that wanting to work with the Republicans somehow absolves them of being shitty. It doesn’t and we will remember. In the meantime, shit needs to get done and continued polarization…

They should have refused to court moderate Republicans so that the Republicans could pass their terrible healthcare bill and we could smugly gloat about how bad what they’re doing is for the country while knowing it’s not our fault.

Thank you. The “Democrat Purity Test” is doing literally nothing to help our current situation and will only hurt us in 2018.

I’m super happy McCain voted as he did but would like to point that when it comes to mavericking, Lisa Murkowski wins hands down. She was primaried in the 2010 Senate elections in Alaska and won as a write-in. She’s so good at her at her job and so damn likeable that more than 100,000 people took the time to attempt…

She’s an actual party outsider... Republicants care more about her “betraying” The Party than admitting they’ve heretofore been tacitly supporting something this fucked up. Coercion is their usual game, so we do need to rely on backbones.

Murkowski gets an extra gold star because she won by running outside the Trump dominated Republican party (via write-ins) in ruby red Alaska. So she’s got the extra anti- Trump/McConnell juice of “I owe you nothing”

I believe he did say no loudly (not to stan for McCain but to give credit where credit’s due)

True because Murkowski is a fucking bad ass who won’t take things sitting down.

But wait wait wait wait, it DID backfire! Zinke threatened Alaska without remembering that Murkowski controls the DeptInterior’s purse strings.

Killer update on Murkowski being threatened by Zinke, though: he forgot she was his boss, didn’t think things through, and she’s now blocking his appointment hearings and appropriations. Oopsie! Checkmate.

I have an insane amount of respect for Murkowski in this as other colleagues (Heller) folded with barely a fraction of the bullying she got from Trump. She got the personal Twitter call out and her whole state is getting punished. (In a normal world that would backfire but in this one?) And she also got a lot of sweet…

The Mooch is the guy we all hated in college but hung around with anyway because he had the best cocaine.

What’s the big fucking deal cocksuckers?

With the Mooch ping-ponging off of every wall in DC like a crazy man, I am surprised that this guy hasn’t been brought in yet. There is time...... He would fit right in.

“Anthony Scaramucci, a finance bro who is now, for no apparent reason, paid to represent the White House and president of the United States of America, used the word “cock” exactly three times—and “fuck” a total of six times—in a rather incredible rant to The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza on Wednesday night.”

I concur. I’m friends with a lot of nurses and texting them in the middle of the afternoon is the equivalent of texting someone with a 9-5 job at 3 am (due to their work shifts). And yet the person with the 9-to-5 job will get all twisted when the nurse texts back after his/her workday (at, say, 11 pm).

Pence can try, but Senate Republicans won’t play ball. They fear a universe where that turns sour against them in the next 2-4 years.

Ditto. I’d like to think I’m pretty easygoing, but I’d roll my eyes so hard if someone made this request of me. Just set up Do Not Disturb, girl!

Yeah people who want to set up business hours for social interaction need to join the 21st century. JUST PUT YOUR PHONE ON SILENT JESUS CHRIST.