While this list may change, it is probably important that we start keeping track of this stuff ourselves.
While this list may change, it is probably important that we start keeping track of this stuff ourselves. Aside from "alternative facts", 2018 elections can make a difference in Congress and people have short memories. Yes, there are unfortunately some districts where it will probably mean more to them that their Rep or Sen supported Bannon Trump, however tepidly, and gerrymandering is a tough wall everywhere. Nevertheless, if we are going to have to pick and choose which Republicans we go after, this is important stuff to keep in mind.
It is probably also worth looking at which of those up in 2018 are Dems stuck in states that went for Trump and that sort of info.
http://www.vox.com/2017/1/29/14427466/republican-congress-silent-trump-refugee
http://www.vox.com/2017/1/29/14427466/republican-congress-silent-trump-refugee
It is probably also worth looking at which of those up in 2018 are Dems stuck in states that went for Trump and that sort of info.
http://www.vox.com/2017/1/29/14427466/republican-congress-silent-trump-refugee
http://www.vox.com/2017/1/29/14427466/republican-congress-silent-trump-refugee
The 2018 Senate Dems are very important to keep.
ReplyDeleteOh we definitely don't want to lose seats. That should be the minimum bar, though. I am not hopeful at this time about the Democratic Party, though.
ReplyDeleteYou can move Corker over.
ReplyDeleteIt's not as strong as I would like, but from the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, it ain't nothin'.
It's pretty weak. He just wants them fixed and reinstated.
ReplyDeleteIt is.
ReplyDeleteBut-- and I regret having to sit on my lazy ass and work on this paper this weekend-- I think the combination of total malicious incompetence, foreign (and allied) condemnation, and vocal (nearing full-throated) protests for the second weekend in a row might be having some effect.
I don't want to be perceived as patting any of them on the head and saying, Oh good for you, and giving them a pass. On the other hand, even in private I don't want to get myself in the habit of punching someone after they make a move in the right direction.
Even a move as minuscule as Trump's own hands.
You are not wrong.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I wish I were.
ReplyDeleteBecause I want to punch someone.
This is getting closer to the ballpark:
ReplyDeleteOur government has a responsibility to defend our borders, but we must do so in a way that makes us safer and upholds all that is decent and exceptional about our nation.
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And we should not turn our backs on those refugees who have been shown through extensive vetting to pose no demonstrable threat to our nation, and who have suffered unspeakable horrors, most of them women and children.
http://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=587F2A2D-8A47-48F7-9045-CF30F0A77889
Predictably, of course, Trump attacked them by name.
Well, Trump likes winners, not POWs.
ReplyDelete#nowordsintonguesofelvesentsormen