Nearly two years ago, John Brennan faced a confirmation hearing in the friendly, Democrat-controlled Senate, but not one entirely ready to rubber-stamp his nomination to become CIA Director after David Petraeus' abrupt departure. The Senate Intelligence Committee pressed Brennan for his views on Bush-era enhanced interrogation techniques during his tenure as deputy CIA Director, to which he had previously given mild support. Brennan dutifully retreated from his previous position, claiming that a read of the panel's draft report had given him pause. "I don't know what the truth is," Brennan told the panel and said that he now questioned his previous briefings on the matter.
That should have given Brennan a wide opening to embrace the report from the panel's Democratic majority yesterday. Instead, Brennan reversed himself — again — and defended his agency, insisting that the information gathered from EITs stopped terrorist attacks and saved lives:
Now that he leads the CIA, Brennan has returned to his original conclusion: the truth is on his agency's side. In a statement responding to the public release of the report's official summary Tuesday, Brennan defended his agency — and the fruits of severe interrogation practices.
Enhanced interrogation techniques "did produce intelligence that helped thwart attack plans, capture terrorists, and save lives," Brennan said, citing an unreleased internal CIA review.
"The intelligence gained from the program," he added, "was critical to our understanding of al Qaeda and continues to inform our counterterrorism efforts to this day."That steps on the message that Democrats wanted to send yesterday — that the Bush era had nothing to do with them, and that any intelligence wins on Barack Obama's watch were his alone. That's the entire point of this exercise, after all. Dianne Feinstein and her panel pushed the report out before the Republican majority that voters just elected could stop them from releasing their cherry-picked conclusions.
That's not just my opinion on the matter. It's also the opinion of Bob Kerrey, former Democratic Senator from Nebraska, a one-time presidential contender, and most importantly a member of the Senate Intelligence panel during the years in question. Kerrey took to the pages of USA Today to scold his former colleagues for their partisan and political attack on the CIA...Also read:
.@DarrellIssa to Gruber "Are you stupid?"
— Kelly O'Donnell (@KellyO) December 9, 2014
.@DarrellIssa to Gruber: "Are you stupid?" lol
— Kathleen McKinley (@KatMcKinley) December 9, 2014
Issa to Gruber: “Are you stupid?”
Gruber: “I… don’t think so.”
That is in the record forever now.
— Zach Hanover (@zhanover) December 9, 2014
Pretty much. RT“@bennyjohnson: Issa vs. Gruber pic.twitter.com/UhjSgnGoBx”
— Skip LaCombe (@skiplacombe) December 9, 2014
Of course they all knew Obamacare was a tax, they just had to lie about that for it to pass. Does any reasonable person deny that?
— Kathleen McKinley (@KatMcKinley) December 9, 2014
VIDEO: Jonathan Gruber: “Yes,” #ObamaCare Contains Tax Hikes http://t.co/dbiORxZ7LB
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 9, 2014
Thank god we are learning that some guy named Ari Goldman has low cholesterol.
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) December 9, 2014
Ari Goldman telling his life and health history. Because democrats take this all very seriously. #Gruber
— sarah (@mamaswati) December 9, 2014
Mother fudge biscuits. Obamacare millenial stooge Ari Goldman just testified about the "unexpected thrill of enrolling" in ACA. #pajamaboy2
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) December 9, 2014
"Random guy" testifying at the Gruber hearing looks familiar... pic.twitter.com/uSeNktunaP
— Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) December 9, 2014
RT @RNCResearch: VIDEO: Jonathan Gruber Repeatedly Refuses To Disclose How Much He Earned From #ObamaCare http://t.co/gxzCLkrihR
— Eye on Politics (@EyeOnPolitics) December 9, 2014
Dem Rep. Maloney says that passing Obamacare was an extremely open and transparent process. hahahaha!
— Carolina Girl (@carolinagirl63) December 9, 2014
Rep. Maloney wants to remind everyone passage of #ACA was totally transparent. OMG! Is she serious?! #Gruber
— Devan Crean (@DevanCrean) December 9, 2014
Maloney wants to remind everyone that passing Obamacare was an extremely open and transparent process behind closed doors
— Theresa Maurer (@TheresaMaurer2) December 9, 2014
Maloney: "ACA process was open and extraordinarily transparent." #tcot
A den of thieves and liars.
— J. `Rights` Winger (@justice2just) December 9, 2014
Gruber sounds like he might cry.
— sarah (@mamaswati) December 9, 2014
RepGowdy to #Gruber - Seems like you thought you were pithy and funny until the videos surfaced.
— Shannon Bream (@ShannonBream) December 9, 2014
RepGowdy to #Gruber - Are you apologizing b/c you said it - or b/c you meant it?
— Shannon Bream (@ShannonBream) December 9, 2014
RepGowdy to #Gruber - Can you see why some think your apology is disingenuous?
— Shannon Bream (@ShannonBream) December 9, 2014
GOWDY: verb, to put the insufferable in their place with reason, facts, and well-timed jabs. "He sure got gowdied in that meeting today."
— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) December 9, 2014
Loved how Trey Gowdy kept making Gruber confess that he's an insufferable douchebag
— Matt Vespa (@mVespa1) December 9, 2014
pic.twitter.com/PtV3dNPD7P
— Ɍɇx ɨn Ɇffɇȼŧ (@RexHarrisonsHat) December 9, 2014
HEY REPUBLICANS: Why don't you have a witness on this panel to explain how their life was RUINED by Obamacare? COME ON!
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) December 9, 2014
Hey Republicans, here are all the people you could have asked to testify today @mycancellation ---> http://t.co/KUNvBlRfFc
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) December 9, 2014
Cynthia Lummis asking the CBO questions I want to hear answered.
— Matt Welch (@MattWelch) December 9, 2014
Lummis grilling Gruber on "how did you guys get the CBO to think this wasn't a tax even when you knew it might be looked at by the SCOTUS"?
— VK (@vickikellar) December 9, 2014
"Everything that has led up to your testimony today, is inconsistent with your testimony today." Rep. Lummis.
A-freaking-men. #Gruber
— Jackie Wellfonder (@Wellfonder) December 9, 2014
Rep. Lummis explaining how Obamacare's failures led to her husband not being tested for heart disease (he died of a heart attack).
— Lyndsey Fifield (@lyndseyfifield) December 9, 2014
Lummis's husband declined tests based on being told that he was not covered under #Obamacare.
— American Thinker (@AmericanThinker) December 9, 2014
Rep Lummis (R-WY) finishes her stmt on Obamacare and what she says are its consequences with this: https://t.co/5ytM4zxlZH
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorpNBC) December 9, 2014
They thought they were ready for anything. They made just one mistake. They didn't plan for @kerpen.
— jimgeraghty (@jimgeraghty) December 9, 2014
First guy to come shake Gruber's hand post-hearing? None other than the intrepid @kerpen. #cspan3
— Mattie Duppler (@MDuppler) December 9, 2014
Right after hearing I shook Gruber's hand, looked him in the eye, and said:
"Thank you for helping us destroy the shitty law you passed."
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) December 9, 2014
@kerpen are you serious?
— AmyB (@RubyRedVette) December 9, 2014
@RubyRedVette Dead serious.
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) December 9, 2014
@kerpen: Well played sir. pic.twitter.com/bhShRzwyEq
— Marshall Locke (@MarshallLocke) December 9, 2014
@kerpen You are my new favorite!!
— BiasedGirl (@BiasedGirl) December 9, 2014
I ❤️ @kerpen
— Sarah Stevenson (@sarahrstevenson) December 9, 2014
@kerpen Like a boss.
— Joshua Mercer (@joshuamercer) December 9, 2014
.@kerpen <----- would like to buy this man a drink
— G Carpet Pernman (@GCarpetPernman) December 9, 2014
Chuck Norris wears a Phil @Kerpen t-shirt.
— Donny Ferguson (@DonnyFerguson) December 9, 2014
Stupid is as stupid does "@WayneDupreeShow: #Gruber pic.twitter.com/bhe7YTQ7tp"
— kerry (@Kerryepp) December 9, 2014
No mention of Obama's #bedmakers & #fruitpickers comment on @msnbc twitter. Weird. @edshow @hardball @TheLastWord @maddow @allinwithchris
— Jonathan (@JR_Delage) November 21, 2014
At least Obama refrained from referencing "Speedy Gonzalez" #FruitPickers
— BiasedGirl (@BiasedGirl) November 21, 2014
Someone ask Hillary if she agrees that the #Dreamers are #FruitPickers...Please.
— BiasedGirl (@BiasedGirl) November 21, 2014
Hey @NCLR This is what Barack Obama thinks of you #FruitPickers
https://t.co/AJVAFGelRN
— S.M (@redsteeze) November 21, 2014
Expressions of concern about POTUS action from Dems @SenDonnelly @clairecmc @Sen_JoeManchin and Indie @SenAngusKing
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 21, 2014
.@SenAngusKing raises constitutional concerns about Obama executive action. Will more follow?http://t.co/YcTORW0UWo
— Fred Bauer (@fredbauerblog) November 20, 2014
@SenDonnelly is 1st Sen dem I've seen come out against POTUS action. "President shouldn’t make such significant policy changes on his own.”
— Nancy Cordes (@nancycordes) November 20, 2014
Read my statement on President Obama’s decision to issue executive actions on immigration reform: http://t.co/ZLJFs08Idt
— Senator Joe Manchin (@Sen_JoeManchin) November 20, 2014
Jay Carney: Yes, Obama Is 'Literally' Doing What He Previously Called Unconstitutional http://t.co/FZZZlQUb5v
— The Weekly Standard (@weeklystandard) November 21, 2014
Freed from his need to lie professionally, Jay Carney concedes that Obama has done a 180. http://t.co/yuo0oRqjME
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 21, 2014
Fact-checks on Obama speech come from AP, WaPo … and Jay Carney? - Hot Air http://t.co/ci7NoqJeGS
— Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) November 21, 2014
@weeklystandard Carney has lied so much that there is no amount of truth that will set him free. His words hold no merit.
— Trish (@mommode2) November 21, 2014
I'll be interviewing Pres. Obama for @ThisWeekABC and asking abt immigration, foreign policy + Ferguson. What other Qs would YOU ask?
— GeorgeStephanopoulos (@GStephanopoulos) November 21, 2014
Obama's only interview after immigration action w/ @GStephanopoulos - airs Sun on @ThisWeekABC http://t.co/uWhYF2bVuj
— Rick Klein (@rickklein) November 21, 2014
Now we know why ABC didn’t cover #Gruber. https://t.co/BLmhxGkG5h @rickklein
— RB (@RBPundit) November 21, 2014
@RBPundit when he found out he got the interview, I wonder if George cried with joy like he did when Obama was elected.
— SquarestDownOurWay (@MStevensG8r) November 21, 2014
John Gruber and CMS Adminstrator Tavenner called by @GOPoversight to Testify about #Obamacare Deceptions --> http://t.co/tmaxceEr7j
— Darrell Issa (@DarrellIssa) November 21, 2014
Obama admin admits inflating #Obamacare Numbers by 400K after @GOPoversight discovered the deception.
— Darrell Issa (@DarrellIssa) November 21, 2014
From the outset, #Obamacare has been the poster child for this Administration’s broken transparency promises.
— Darrell Issa (@DarrellIssa) November 21, 2014
Americans were told that if they liked their plans and doctors, they could keep them. #Obamacare
— Darrell Issa (@DarrellIssa) November 21, 2014
We were told the individual mandate wasn’t a tax. None of these were true. #Obamacare
— Darrell Issa (@DarrellIssa) November 21, 2014
Jonathan Gruber, one of #Obamacare’s chief architects, publicly lauded the ‘lack of transparency’ that was necessary to pass the law.
— Darrell Issa (@DarrellIssa) November 21, 2014
Gruber even credited ‘the stupidity of the American voter’ for allowing the Obama Admin to mislead the public.
— Darrell Issa (@DarrellIssa) November 21, 2014
The American people deserve honesty, transparency and respect from those who forced the federal government into their healthcare. #Obamacare
— Darrell Issa (@DarrellIssa) November 21, 2014
Read the full @GOPoversight statement about Gruber and Tavenner being called to testify on #Obamacare here -> http://t.co/tmaxceEr7j
— Darrell Issa (@DarrellIssa) November 21, 2014
HOUSE FILES CHALLENGE OVER THE CHANGES TO THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT http://t.co/PRbPyOkD13
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) November 21, 2014
It seems Turley and Pelosi don’t get along. Turley: "Speaker Nancy Pelosi has continued her search for book sales…” http://t.co/AOZbT6PHfF
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) November 21, 2014
In statement on GOP ligitation, Pelosi swipes Jonathan Turley as “a TV lawyer” working on a “meritless lawsuit.”
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) November 21, 2014
@sahilkapur At least she knows who Turley is; she had no idea who Gruber was last week.
— Pradheep Shanker MD (@Neoavatara) November 21, 2014
What do people think reporters' jobs are??
— Ben Smith (@BuzzFeedBen) November 21, 2014
@BuzzFeedBen 1) Making important friends. 2) Eating free food.
— Miriam Elder (@MiriamElder) November 21, 2014
@MiriamElder @BuzzFeedBen 3) Drinking?
— Liliana Segura (@LilianaSegura) November 21, 2014
@redsteeze @BuzzFeedBen making sure a person who makes a bad joke feels the full wrath of the internet and gets fired?
— Inevitable Trade (@TStivali) November 21, 2014
I used to think it was to inform the public, not push an agenda. RT @BuzzFeedBen What do people think reporters' jobs are??
— RB (@RBPundit) November 21, 2014
Oh really? Top Obama Adviser on Economy: ‘People Don’t Feel As Good About it as They Should’ http://t.co/TGRSXRq3fT pic.twitter.com/T5TWKrFNRr
— Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) November 21, 2014
.@NoahCRothman More jobs are created when people feel better about things.. Also unicorns.
— S.M (@redsteeze) November 21, 2014
The economy is great.. It's how you feel that's the problem.
— S.M (@redsteeze) November 21, 2014
Turn that economic frown upside down - @pfeiffer44
— S.M (@redsteeze) November 21, 2014
@FreeBeacon Obviously it's a messaging issue because Americans are too stupid to understand how good the economy really is #Grubering
— John Teller (@judicialabuse) November 21, 2014
@NoahCRothman @FreeBeacon Elitism at its best
— James Hewitt (@JamesoHewitt) November 21, 2014
Is everyone sitting down? I don’t want to shock you, but someone is moving from the White House to MSNBC. http://t.co/Xi4YoM2Xr4
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) November 21, 2014
FUCK YOU! NO! THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE! @JohnEkdahl
— iLoveScienceSexually (@AceofSpadesHQ) November 21, 2014
@AceofSpadesHQ It’s crazy. I’ve been curled up for a little while in disbelief.
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) November 21, 2014
30,000 missing Lois Lerner emails have been recovered, 5 months after they were deemed lost forever http://t.co/XrxtE0krNM
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) November 21, 2014
@JohnEkdahl @VodkaPundit @dcexaminer Amazing it happened after the bloodbath at the midterms and increasing likelihood of a GOP WH in 2016.
— Trev (@CP4070) November 21, 2014
Hillary Clinton now on immigration order: "This is about people's lives, people, I would venture to guess, who served us tonight."
— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) November 22, 2014
Oh Hillary. Oh honey no. This is the most cringetastic HRC quote in some time https://t.co/tmm5LuONoE via @aseitzwald ht @JimmyPrinceton
— mcbc (@mcbc) November 22, 2014
@aseitzwald Wonder how this would be reported if a conservative made the same comment? Spoiler Alert: The tone would be a wee bit different
— Andy Waldron (@AndyWIII) November 22, 2014
@aseitzwald @Alicia_Smith19 she definitely got a white man's burden attitude going on there. Ugh. I am embarrassed for her.
— Lilycat (@Catroversy) November 22, 2014
@aseitzwald Did she throw a "you people" in there for good measure?
— Phelony Jones (@phelony_jones) November 22, 2014
Never change, @HillaryClinton. Never change.
— jon gabriel (@exjon) November 22, 2014
@aseitzwald Interesting in that Hillary probably thought she was showing 'awareness.' She was equally tone-deaf in 1992-2000.
— James Stanhope (@ManchurianDevil) November 22, 2014
Palestinians in Gaza celebrate terror attack at Jerusalem synagogue http://t.co/6Wn3mFDNel
— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) November 18, 2014
Look, they're throwing a party. http://t.co/MvgrKe2YBl pic.twitter.com/JoaAjGi4oj
— Jimmy (@JimmyPrinceton) November 18, 2014
Heartbreaking images coming out of the #Jerusalem synagogue massacre. pic.twitter.com/sCWH7E9azc
— Peter Lerner (@LTCPeterLerner) November 18, 2014
Some parts of being President are really difficult. Condemning a massacre without drawing a moral equivalency shouldn't be one of them.
— L (@OrwellForks) November 18, 2014
3 Americans were slaughtered today, but we must remember that the real victims are the people openly celebrating their deaths right now.
— AG (@AG_Conservative) November 18, 2014
Interesting framing. RT @Heminator: Heckuva morning for CNN. pic.twitter.com/aJqYGo1OhH
— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) November 18, 2014
Chait 11/13: Gruber was "author of Obamacare." https://t.co/pUIyw4WB4x Chait today: Gruber played "no direct role in writing the law."
— John McCormack (@McCormackJohn) November 18, 2014
I wonder if Christopher eats meat? Wears a leather belt? Shoes? Car seats? Donates money to wildlife management? Hmm. pic.twitter.com/krHWcaCa1i
— Eva Shockey (@EvaShockey) November 18, 2014
"All appetite at 1 end, no sense of responsibility at the other." MT @MotherJones Science: your baby is a socialist http://t.co/zI8oG4RVf4
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) November 18, 2014
On the Senate floor, Mary Landrieu backs a balanced budget amendment, free automatic weapons, intravenous beer drips, and IRS abolition.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 18, 2014
“Frankly,” Landrieu says, “I’m not even convinced the president was born in America—or that he’s a Christian. Let’s abolish Obamacare.”
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 18, 2014
“Tonight,” Landrieu says proudly, “I intend to slap each one of my Democratic colleagues with a gold-plated copy of the U.S. Constitution.”
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 18, 2014
Unprecedented. Senator Landrieu is actually flying around the Senate chamber with a jetpack, spraying DDT at a terrified Chuck Schumer.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 18, 2014
Landrieu is now firing guns in the air as Ted Cruz throws spoonfuls of jambalaya into her open mouth. “Ain’t nutin like ‘Merica,” she cries.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 18, 2014
It's dead, Jim.
— David Freddoso (@freddoso) November 18, 2014
Appears Mary Landrieu has lost her Keystone vote. CSPAN now showing video of Democratic Senators feasting on Landrieu's entrails.
— Popehat (@Popehat) November 18, 2014
Party of No!
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) November 18, 2014
Democrats just set fire to Mary Landrieu's last hope. It's as if they have no loyalty after she let them buy her off on the Obamacare vote.
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) November 18, 2014
Keystone will be up for another vote early in the new Congress. Too bad @MaryLandrieu won't be there to approve. #ElectionsHaveConsequences
— Monica Crowley (@MonicaCrowley) November 18, 2014
Dems are in organizational free fall. NEVER should've taken vote. Why go through the pain & draw so much attention to issue while losing?
— Dana Perino (@DanaPerino) November 18, 2014
Voting down #KeystoneXL was @SenatorReid's kick out the door to @SenLandrieu and final middle finger to the midterm voters.
— jon gabriel (@exjon) November 18, 2014
"Yes. I can send you my resume." pic.twitter.com/PfYMb78L94
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) November 18, 2014
Landrieu's updating her LinkedIn profile. MT @politico: Senate rejects #KXL bill pic.twitter.com/Scu0HlSHmT
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) November 18, 2014
NEWSFLASH: Mary Landrieu's proctologist "rattled" by what her fellow Democrats did to her. #caring #Gruber
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) November 19, 2014
In a well-reasoned piece in Bloomberg, Dave Weigel suggests that Democrats have put themselves in a tough position with their initial, panicked response to the discovery of the first six plus videos featuring MIT professor Jonathan Gruber making impolitic but honest statements about the Affordable Care Act and the intelligence of the American voter.
"I don't know who he is," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi unconvincingly replied when asked about the prolific health care policy wonk.
"The fact that an adviser who was never on our staff expressed an opinion that I completely disagree with in terms of the voters is not a reflection on the actual process that was run," Barack Obama later insisted.
"It's sad to me that good political journalists are spending so much time on these irrelevant comments by this guy Gruber," Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) fired off in a tweet nearly as dismissive and condescending as the Gruber's original comments.
The more honest Democrats with ties to the White House know they're caught in a trap, and struggling will only make the snare grow tighter.
With that grim reality in mind, Barack Obama's "Car Czar," Steve Rattner, appeared on MSNBC on Tuesday where he did the White House no favors amid their increasingly flailing effort to create some artificial distance between the administration and the policy analyst to whom they are so inexorably tied.
"I think if you go back to The Washington Post or The New York Times, or anything from that period, you will find Jonathan Gruber's name all over it," Rattner said.
The Weekly Standard's John McCormack apparently took Rattner's advice. When New York Magazine columnist Jonathan Chait conceded that "Gruber designed Obamacare conceptually" but that "he played no direct role in writing the law," McCormack noted that the Times reported quite the opposite.
"After Mr. Gruber helped the administration put together the basic principles of the proposal, the White House lent him to Capitol Hill to help Congressional staff members draft the specifics of the legislation," New York Times reporter Catherine Rampell wrote in 2012...Also read:
@dangainor RT @TheINDYpundit: Gary Varvel won the day today! Congressional DEMOCRATS were the stupid voters! #Gruber pic.twitter.com/rIyxZ8dk1D
— Kenneth Lang (@kennethlang) November 16, 2014
Jonathan Gruber's version of the Obamacare website. @instapundit http://t.co/UcYCHgKNLB @JenniferKernsDC pic.twitter.com/cughxywdjq
— varvel (@varvel) November 17, 2014
And the hammer comes down: "I have stolen ideas from" Jon Gruber. - Obama https://t.co/y3iIcdAbMh
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) November 17, 2014
For being so *brilliant* Obama seems to have real trouble understanding how the Interwebz work. That & recording devices.
#Gruber
— BiasedGirl (@BiasedGirl) November 17, 2014
Stupid Americans! @kerpen: Obamacare at new record low in Gallup: 37-56.
http://t.co/kdqrBMBJbH pic.twitter.com/nJIuTVQ2KM
— Gary Weckselblatt (@gweckselblatt) November 17, 2014
THAT DARN CONSERVATIVE MEDIA! @bwaxman @gweckselblatt
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) November 17, 2014
@kerpen @gweckselblatt Corporate media is more conservative than the right would like to admit
— Ben Waxman (@bwaxman) November 17, 2014
.@bwaxman Pls explain how that applies to NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NYT, AP. We'll wait. @kerpen @gweckselblatt
— Clay Johanson (@clayjohanson) November 17, 2014
What color is the sky in your world? @bwaxman @kerpen @gweckselblatt
— Andrews Dad (@Andrew_Dad) November 17, 2014
@MoonbatCatnip @redsteeze @ezraklein @HawkinsUSA @cybr_gk I failed geography but I used Google maps to find a Thai place once #VoxQuals
— The Chris Coon (@Coondawg68) November 17, 2014
@MoonbatCatnip @redsteeze @ezraklein @HawkinsUSA @cybr_gk I have translated the collective works of @mattyglesias using only emoji #VoxQuals
— The Chris Coon (@Coondawg68) November 17, 2014
How tone-deaf can you be. MT "@frankthorpNBC: Pelosi on Duckworth not being able to vote by proxy: "I don't know why all this fuss was made"
— Patrick Kennedy (@PLKDC) November 17, 2014
8 months pregnant. RT @seanagnew: "War on a female, double amputee, combat vet" RT @me: Time for Pelosi to retire. https://t.co/6RMBX1V1rp
— Jimmy (@JimmyPrinceton) November 17, 2014
.@frankthorpNBC Duckworth left pieces of herself on the battlefield for this nation. Pelosi's a boil on democracy's butt.
— Meanwich 30 (@Chris_Clukey) November 17, 2014
@rebeccagberg @kerpen: It's about time. Funny when Dems lose suddenly they're asking for bipartisanship.
— arlene billson (@juneslili) November 18, 2014
Tweets you'll never see when a Democrat wins... the grapes, they are sour.
https://t.co/A1tVOQBiME
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) November 18, 2014
Begich concedes #AKSEN. And with that, a state w/ fewer people than Columbus, Fort Worth and Charlotte finds out who its 2nd US senator is.
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) November 18, 2014
@AlecMacGillis It's funny when progs cry.
— John Rivers (@JohnRiversToo) November 18, 2014
@AlecMacGillis Are there other parts of the Constitution that you find disagreeable?
— Tony Schroeder (@schroedertony) November 18, 2014
.@AlecMacGillis obviously not a problem when Rhode Island sends two Democrats to Washington each year. Or Delaware. Or Vermont.
— Patrick Hedger (@BeyondTheHedge) November 18, 2014
Democrats like the Constitution when their guy wins. When they lose, not so much: https://t.co/bD19VUBMD0
— The Mad Hessian (@TheMadHessian) November 18, 2014
Yo, @AlecMacGillis. https://t.co/MSZIbULYiV pic.twitter.com/agVwdvEuzL
— RB (@RBPundit) November 18, 2014
@AlecMacGillis Apply "Liberally" pic.twitter.com/ShypcKNdGI
— Natasha Fatale (@N_Fatale) November 18, 2014
@AlecMacGillis I have good news and bad news. Good news: there is a cure for butthurt. Bad news: its not covered by Obamacare.
— Mallamutt (@Mallamutt) November 18, 2014
Good Dog---> RT @chrislhayes Tonight's show opens with a monologue about the continued efforts to destroy the ACA and how odious they are.
— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) November 18, 2014
@derekahunter @chrislhayes Relax Derek. Its not like anyone is watching.
— rickbestany (@rickbestany) November 18, 2014
@donnabrazile the fact that @WendyDavisTexas' entire campaign was about aborting babies in the most #prolife states in the US didn't help.
— Chris Doyle (@ChrisDoyle1962) November 18, 2014
@politico lost it? They never had it...
— Mr E™ (@stockdemons) November 18, 2014
