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[Fine Ham Abounds]

There's no way greater constituent action is a bad thing. Somehow the engagement taking place now has to continue for the next 2 years through the midterms. This administration promises to be bad enough to possibly make that happen.

 

[ebullientprism]

You are AT LEAST as qualified as her to be the Secretary.

LMAO.

 

[HawksWinStanley]

Calls are working. A nominee having to squeak by on the Vice President's tiebreaker vote is *humiliating* and historically unprecedented.

They just brought on somebody who has no business being there. The fact they were able to pull something like this off at all is a massive victory in and of itself in their eyes. All it does is tell them they can literally get away with just about anything.

 

[faisal233]

It won't because Democrats don't vote in midterms, and conservative voters have routinely and historically shown that the Republican party can shit on them, destroy the economy and their local community and the voters will still fall in line and vote for Republican nominees.

Alt-Fact: The 2006 midterms never happened.

 

[VendettaRed07]

How about all of the people who have already given up with the "democrats don't vote in midterms so everything is already lost" actually go out and do what they can to make sure they do. Or is that just to much to ask.

 

[Man Called Aerodynamics]

All it does is tell them they can literally get away with just about anything.

a) Republicans get their nominee confirmed. Dems don't bother fighting it because they ultimately don't have the votes to stop her anyway.

b) Republicans get their nominee confirmed. Senators face unprecedented deluge of angry constituents. The nominee's reputation is publicly dragged through the mud. Two R senators forced to break with their party. Left-leaning people all over the country learned their representatives' phone numbers and have gotten into the habit of calling every day. D senators are united and pledge to keep fighting Trump's appointees because their constituents demand it.

Sure, they get DeVos either way, but which do you think the GOP would have preferred?

Why should we make this easier for them just because?

 

[Tranqueris]

Yep it's time wrap the phone calls up guys, let's put a complete stop to any and all efforts.

2 weeks later..

"Why aren't Senate Democrats standing up to Trump?!" Why are House Republicans repealing Obamacare and replacing it with a paper that says 'don't be poor' instead?!"

"If only there was something we could do!"

If DeVos gets confirmed regardless, then this type of public engagement would have been for nothing.

DeVos's garbage PR smile should be a daily reminder that voting for senators matters. If people had voted for only one more Democratic senator we wouldn't be in this mess.

 

[sangreal]

a) Republicans get their nominee confirmed. Dems don't bother fighting it because they ultimately don't have the votes to stop her anyway.

b) Republicans get their nominee confirmed. Senators face unprecedented deluge of angry constituents. The nominee's reputation is publicly dragged through the mud. Two R senators forced to break with their party. Left-leaning people all over the country learned their representatives' phone numbers and have gotten into the habit of calling every day. D senators are united and pledge to keep fighting Trump's appointees because their constituents demand it.

Sure, they get DeVos either way, but which do you think the GOP would have preferred?

Why should we make this easier for them just because?

amen

 

[Debirudog]

if only Kander won...