Kirsten Gillibrand appreciation thread

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186. At this moment, Gillibrand is probably pretty popular on

Free Republic, having played such a key role in removing one of the most high profile opponents to the Trump agenda. Free Republic has to be happy that no complicated Russian trolling or expensive opposition campaign was necessary to get rid of Franken. The Democratic Senate leadership was perfectly willing to do the removal themselves.

BTW, I also get that extended intraparty venting isn't going to win future elections. However - we are barely 48 hours after a duly elected Democratic senator was encouraged to leave his office on flimsy charges in the midst of a full blown crisis of the Republic. If Schumer, Sanders, Brown, Heitkamp, Baldwin, et al., didn't expect blowback from their base, that's a whole new level of tone deaf political leadership.

I am going to stay politically active as a Dem because it's the only viable opposition party. And I hope others will do the same. But this episode has given me a new level of disappointment with a party I've supported for a long long time. And this is a common sentiment among a lot of the people that the party will count on come election day.

So it goes.