Getting re-elected should not be their primary consideration. They are there first and foremost to represent their constituents, who are demanding that they resist what we see as an illegitimate president, and the most corrupt and unqualified group of nominees in modern history.

Yeah, I believe you’re correct.

No, but every day the Trump administration isn’t up and running as fully functional brings us one day closer to November, 2018.

I meant the lesson that not taking a stand can be a liability later. A lot of voters took issue with Clinton’s vote on the Iraq war. Similarly, if Gillebrand has aspirations to seek the candidacy, voting to confirm Trump’s nominations is something that could come back to haunt her, I think she is reading the mood of…

It doesn’t include today’s votes.

I don’t actually mind if our government grinds to a halt right now, it will limit or at least delay the damage a Trump administration can do.

Yep. They’ve been hearing loudly from their Democratic constituents on this as well. Here were protesters in R.I. demanding that Sheldon Whitehouse explain his vote on Pompeo:

Democrats need to understand that there is no good will to be gained from Republicans by trying to appear reasonable, hopefully this has made that crystal clear to them moving forward. Props to Kirsten Gillibrand, it appears she learned the correct lesson from the Iraq War authorization vote.

Yeah, I think we can defend the Michigan border, at least north of I-94, but I’m a bit worried about Illinois stuck out there on a peninsula, and my sister lives in Peoria. We might have to do hostage exchanges, like we’ll give you Champaign-Urbana, in exchange for relocating the conservative Christian holdouts in…

Fuck it. Time to implement Jesusland and break away from the Republic.

Don King, next press secretary

That’s true, but DeVos was a truly inspired choice of a “fuck you” to teachers, parents, and anyone that cares about public education.

Why did you make me Google his political affiliation? Cruel. 

The way I look at it, she’s awful AND she has a veneer of credibility since she’s worked on education issues for decades, even if her goal was to destroy public education. They could possibly find someone equally evil, but most likely it would be someone as tangentially-related to education as Ben Carson is to housing…

I seriously doubt even Trump and his minions could find someone who would be worse for education than Betsy DeVos

The “support for Castro” thing was brought up during the Univision debate. The interview is available, people can listen to it themselves. Here’s why I don’t buy this argument: Donald Trump was hit with a barrage of scandal, everything David Brock could hit him with - almost all of them serious scandals that involved…

Kurt Eichenwald is a lying sack of shit. Do you honestly believe the Republicans had anything that David fucking Brock missed? There was no secret unreleased video, and all the other stuff was brought up during the primary,

My grandmother started becoming obsessive about these kinds of Fox News sensationalistic headlines when she first started showing signs of dementia. I don’t think it’s a sign of healthy, normal brain function.

The C02 we exhale comes from the air. We are not creating C02 that wasn’t already in the atmosphere when we breathe.

Do you know what an exit poll is?