Christ - just noticed my punctuation and homonym errors and I’m past the point of editability. Kinjaaaaaa!!!!!

I don’t disagree with your opinion of her usual triangulation, but I don’t think it would be an issue in this case. The best way to get Obama’s nominee approved now, is to make the GOP terrified of the alternative.

For me, the fact that he explicitly states he will support Obama’s pick is what gives me that impression. With the GOP already talking up the possibility of lame duck approval, it seems to me Bernie is very aware of the politics of the moment. No one believes he would pick a centrist himself, given the option, it’d…

Are you kidding? Hillary should say the same thing - it basically further holds the GOP’s feet to the fire by taking away the chance for them to approve Garland in a lame duck session if they don’t like who won the presidential election.

Yeah. I feared as much.

So, if the hearings are tradition rather than a requirement, and the GOP is eschewing tradition by refusing to hold hearings... can’t we just skip the hearings and go directly to the cloture vote?

How can you summarize Bubba Ho-Tep and leave out the part about JFK having been dyed black?

And, really, national security? I mean “security” is such a nebulous abstract thing. It means different things to different people. Doesn’t really seem like something we should be spending money on.

It does. And I explicitly stated down-thread that the disparity in staffers is problematic. My only point was that this data seems to reflect that, at least, he’s likely providing equal pay for equal work. Otherwise the salary numbers would be unlikely to slightly favor women given that the top ten salaries exclude…

In agreement with you on that. But the fact that none of the ten highest paid jobs are women and the average still comes out to favor women, suggests that the pay is likely to be equitable once you get into side-by-side positions.

Look at the numbers again. While Sanders can certainly be taken to task for the top ten staffers excluding women, your equal pay criticism doesn’t make sense given that women are, on average, paid more by his campaign than men are.

I know you’re trying to make a point about the top ten staff positions (which is completely fair), but did you miss the part where the pay disparity actually favors women among those working for his campaign?

Meh. I don’t want it that badly.

I don’t think people get upset when she’s sarcastic. The shade she was throwing in that Benghazi hearing was her most authentic moment in ages. The sincerity often feels coached (whether it is or it isn’t), I’m just suggesting that Devil-May-Care Hillary would actually be her best bet in not just being true to…

Of course not. Elizabeth Warren is cool, too.

Sarcastic Hillary is her best public persona, but she deploys it so frickin’ rarely. People can relate to sarcasm, Hils, you don’t have to strive to make connections or say “basta,” just whip out some side-eye like you did at the Benghazi hearings.

Those adjectives go really well together.

Seriously. Not only was Cheney not ticketed, but he wasn’t even interviewed until the following day so he’d have time to sober up.

Face licking doesn’t seem Kirk Cameron’s style, so I’m going to guess the washed up actor was that conservative Baldwin.

You don’t need a documentary for that, you just have to go to a courthouse.