dinos messing up the game plans!

No way we can convince 20 Republicans to do the right thing. If this saves two vulnerable Senate seats, it's galling, but I can live with it.

vote his conscience.

I keep think back to Senator mcCaskel and how she voted no on kavenaugh but then got voted out and now they have a repug whose 30 years old and will be in the senate forever. What did that get us? A good democratic senator lost her seat. We got nothing for her vote.

I am glad we see her all the time on msnbc though.

Source--http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/melinda-henneberger/article2017402 u64.html
The article speaks to her failure to work with, respect and reach for AfAm support, the base of the Dem party.

More at article

Sen Jones has a moral core, and in his career acted with that core in evidence, he also knows he became a YS Senator because of Black Womens' get out the vote efforts
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/13/doug-jones-alabama-roy-moore-african-american-voters


snip--"Doug Jones’s shock victory in Alabama relied heavily on a key component of the Democratic coalition: African American voters.

Black voters have long been the linchpin of the Democratic base. But African American turnout has sagged recently in non-presidential elections. Jones was able to reverse that trend on Tuesday. In a state where African Americans make up 26% of the population, they made up 29% of the electorate, according to exit polls, and backed Jones by a margin of 96% to 4%.


Snip--{DNC Vice Chair}"Blake also saw broader ramifications from the increase in turnout and the DNC’s efforts organizing on the ground. “You had black turnout essentially reach and exceed where it was in 2008,” he noted. “It shows that we can and will win everywhere.” He also noted that increase in turnout was achieved despite Alabama’s restrictive voting laws."

Snip--" The result was that turnout surged in predominantly African American counties in the black belt and in urban areas with large African American populations. In Greene County, Alabama, which is 80% percent black, turnout reached 78% of 2016 levels. In contrast, in white rural areas, turnout was just over half of that reached in 2016, when Hillary Clinton lost the state in a landslide. In other counties, Jones received more votes than Clinton did in 2016, including in Moore’s home county of Etowah."

More at article


Sen Jones is no fool, he knows who brought him to the Senate

since I started in 2004. It's more in vogue at some times, now with higher frequency of usage and now with lower frequency, but it's around.

n/t

Jones is not going to get any Republicans to vote for him if he votes no, they will all be out in force voting against him this year.

Manchin on the other hand routinely gets lots of Republicans to vote for him. He's in a tight spot on this one.

It’s really difficult to decide whether or not you, as a United States Senator, should stand up for your country?

evidence is presented if we do the same.

Jones' comment makes sense to me: "House Democrats have made a 'compelling case' but added that he wants to listen to the defense being mounted by Trump's legal team."

not