I’m assuming that he is just goddamn tired. I never even realized how much work must go into prepping for these hearings and all the other stuff they have to do besides? Anyway, I’m just going to go with he’s tired.

They’ll push online schools, like MI Virtual Academy. MVA is happy to take your voucher! And the DeVos family is also happy to take your tax money, since they own 80% of MVA.

My dad worked on a committee with DeVos and called her a ‘nightmare’ and ‘impossible to work with.’

In spite of her terrible husband, Chao has been a cabinet member before so she has some qualifications. DeVos is a stupid bitch who shouldn’t be allowed to run a PTA meeting.

The reason why I am particularly concerned about DeVos is that keeping people uninformed and uneducated is how the Republicans get and hold onto power. We saw it in this election: people who aren’t capable of telling fake news from real, people who don’t realize that the ACA and Obamacare are the same thing, etc. By…

And why is Booker a quisling, precisely? Oh, right, he did not sign that bullshit ‘symbolic’ prescription law? Right. I am sure the residents of NJ, for which he has done the very best, will totally primary him.

I expected one of Trump’s nominees would go down. Whoever performed the worst was going to be the unlucky one trotted out as ‘evidence’ that the Rs didn’t just rubber stamp Trump’s utterly absurd and unqualified picks.

I get that the Republican senators need to toe the party line and kiss the redneck’s asses and all that, but how in the fuck could any of them justify voting for this trainwreck? Nobody with a shred of professional integrity could see her as qualified. Of course, I guess I just answered my own question.

I know that Burr from North Carolina was saying that he was on the fence and was asking for his constituents opinions. Maybe we’ll get lucky considering the state just elected a democrat governor?

On the subject of education, did anybody else know that Sean Spicer’s mom is a faculty lead in the East Asian studies department at Brown? Do her students learn alternative facts? Maybe it wasn’t really napalm used in Vietnam?

I wonder if she was purposely chosen as a sacrificial lamb.

All his other picks have various levels of fuckerry to them. She actually kills two birds with one stone: 1) Trump nominates her just to cover his ass because she was such a YUGE donor to the party ($200M+.) And 2) she sucked so bad at her hearing and…

My opinion of Republicans would go up 5 points if they did what is right, just this once.

We Mainers are battering the doors of faux-moderate Republican Susan Collins, who has vanished from her constituency (hasn’t held a town hall in years) and her phone is now not taking any more messages. She’s got a cruel tendency to fuck Dems over by pretending to be neutral then caving to her party, but she’s as good…

Well, thank your preferred deity for that. Now let’s hope they hold the line AND identify a couple of Republicans with some sense and some backbone.

It’s equally important to call and voice support for your representatives. I called my Democratic senator’s office to thank him after he announced he would not be voting for Betsy DeVos. He’s up for reelection in 2018, and I fear he’ll give in to the GOP far too much in order to save his seat.

Hello! As a former Hill person, two things:

You’re gonna have to beat me to it, I’m stealing this and I’m already in Scotland.

Apparently my plan is going through the stones in Scotland, ending up in 18th century and meeting someone named Jamie.

Take a deep breath and remember:

I never thought my former life as a high school English teacher would prepare me for the revolution.