He's a shameful man, period. It just makes me scratch my head about Oklahoma voters.

They like this shit? They approve of this shit? Seriously? I guess they must like nut-cakes because they have another one still in there - james inhofe, who has got to be the biggest idiot ever to strut across the Senate floor on science and the environment and the world of FACTS versus climate change denial. And I think he's about to take over the Science and Public Works Committee chairmanship again. Barbara Boxer is the outgoing chair. She took it over from inhofe a few years back. They couldn't pick a worse chairman for that committee than james fucking inhofe.

WHO THE HELL VOTES FOR THESE IDIOT JERKS???? AND FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE, WHY????????

YES. We need to keep talking about torture. We need to keep this story alive.

The nation's about to hit the collective snooze button for the Christmas/New Year's holiday. Programming on the airwaves will be dissolving into "Jingle Bells" and "The Little Drummer Boy." It's up to US to keep this on the front burner. And then we need to be a big fat thorn in the side of the CON majority in the Senate.

I think you're NOT wrong. He swaggered around everywhere boasting about being a

"back bench bomb thrower." He specialized in saying the most insulting, most outrageous, most over-the-top things possible. I remember during the whole Susan Smith mess (she's the one who drove her two little boys into a lake, still strapped in their little baby seats, and drowned them because she was hot for this single guy who didn't like kids. And she mewled and whined about how some black guy carjacked her with them in it. She eventually confessed - and became the most hated woman in America for quite awhile). He turned around and said - this is what you get when you vote for Democrats.

Which is why I LOVE turning the tables and pointing out - "that's what you get when you vote republi-CON." BACK ATCHA, newty, you MISERABLE DETESTABLE FUCKING SCHMUCK!!!!

Welcome to DU, benz380!

Glad you're here. Hair-raising story, isn't it? Road rage. It can kill. It already has.

Everybody be safe out there!!! We need you to stick around - and keep voting!!!!

I think that's a pretty accurate assessment.

You make a good point, Jackpine. I think you nailed it. Things are getting weirder and angrier by the day. I don't know where or when or how it will end, but I doubt it'll be pretty.

BTW.....

I also called Brad Sherman's office - elsewhere here in SoCal. Not my Congressman but close enough. And I said "SHAME on him!" to the staffer who answered. She didn't much care for it since my zip code told her he wasn't my representative.

NEVERTHELESS, I insisted. For the following VERY legitimate reasons (and you can, too!):

Because I don't live too far from there.

Because I have loads of friends who DO live in his district - and I am not reluctant to make sure they know what he did and how he voted.

Because I am a campaign contributor, and even while he doesn't technically represent me, he was awfully glad to get my money and use it for his reelection campaign. So I damn well have every right to assert what I want from him. Unless, of course, he's willing to refund my donation (which you know he isn't). *

Because we're both Democrats and DAMMIT we need to stick together and stand firm on what Democrats are supposed to believe in and stand for!

* DO NOT HESITATE to use this one! REGARDLESS where you are versus where they are. IF YOU CONTRIBUTED TO THEIR CAMPAIGNS, you have EVERY RIGHT to weigh in and tell them what YOU want. If you donated to the DCCC or (for a Senator), the DSCC, via the Dems themselves or the DNC in general or ActBlue or one of those - YOU HAVE EVERY RIGHT to do this and make these demands.

I used this in a call to Heidi Heitkamp once. I'm from California. She's from North Dakota. On the surface, no, I'm not a constituent and I don't live in North Dakota, nor do I know anybody who does. Certainly nobody in my extended family, to whom I can refer, does either. HOWEVER, I contributed to her first campaign for the Senate - which she won. Her campaign took my donation. Didn't refund it. Didn't give it back or decline to accept it because I wasn't a North Dakotan. NO WAY! So frankly, as long as she's happy to take MY money for her campaign, and MY money helped her win this job she now has, I figure she damn well better listen to me. And I said so! This was after Sandy Hook, when she went on "Good Morning America" and said absolutely nothing will be done to curb access to assault weapons. ENRAGED me! And I told her staffer that when I called in.

DO NOT EVER EVER EVER HESITATE to use this when you call in, no matter who-the-hell it is, or where they call home. IF YOU CONTRIBUTED, IN ANY WAY, to their political campaigns, then you have EVERY DAMN RIGHT to weigh in and force your opinion on them. They gladly took your money. They were delighted and oh-so-grateful for that donation of yours. Therefore their ass is now YOURS, too. I don't care if you're living in Antarctica and they're in Alaska. If you sent in a donation to their campaigns, you OWN their ass. You bought and paid for it. And you have EVERY RIGHT to tell them what to do. You are their employer and underwriter. They HAVE to listen to you because they just might not be in that position if it weren't for you and that donation you sent in to help them awhile back. They OWE you now.

Even better if you have a relative living in their district or state. Relative, best friend, former roommate, ex, whatever. I'd pull whatever string(s) I had in a case like this. Whenever either of my kids were out traveling, and I had reason to call some rep, I made sure to call wherever my kids were. Because that ALSO entitles me to a stake in what that rep is up to. I remember when some insolent staffer for Susan Collins demanded of me "and WHAT does this have to do with the State of Maine?" Answer: "Well, (FUCKER), my nephew and his kids live in the State of Maine and I visit them every so often and spend money there and support the local economy, and we're close, so I am AT ALL TIMES concerned, and PERSONALLY so, with what goes on in the State of Maine - that directly affects them AND me!!! (You little shit-faced PUNK!)"
(Note - the above words in parentheses were not spoken aloud by me in that case. But they're exactly what I was thinking!)

HAH! Wasserman-Schultz. Why am I not surprised.

Hey thanks DEBBIE. Thanks for even more NOTHING, as if your dereliction of duty didn't already cost us plenty aside from this particular vote. SHITTY DNC chair. Absolutely SHITTY job she did. We ate it in not one but TWO midterm elections on her watch. And now this, too.

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Don't know. But bush/cheney is the first "presidential" team not to enjoy lifetime protection

from the Secret Service. That privilege terminated at the end of Bill Clinton's term. That particular pissant GOP-driven Congress moved to end it. I think they were just so mad that they couldn't get rid of Bill Clinton even by trying to impeach-and-remove him that they did this out of spite. But then - beauty of all beauties - it wound up not applying to him. Bill Clinton is the last former President to enjoy lifetime Secret Service protection.

I found that exquisitely fitting! Just understanding what I do about the CONS, I'd bet they did this trying to smack him around just once more, simply out of spite. And they failed. Yeah, they got it through alright. But the first time it took effect, it wound up happening to one of THEIRS. Sometimes justice is where you find it.

Well, nobody surveyed me.