Senators should stop using them as a human shield and have public town halls where they are accessible to their voters

These dummies are gonna be caught so flat footed when a new generation of politicians run against these embarrassing failures. It explains why the Dem establishment has badly misread Mamdani’s appeal to a broad base of voters.

One of the “concessions” that swung Kaine was that govt workers would get back pay for shutdown time aka something already required by law.

That’s goes for government salaries in general too. I worked at a consulting firm where my boss was contracted to be the CFO of a water utility because they struggled to hire at the posted salary. The city paid way more (including my firm’s profit margin) than if they just bumped up the pay band.

His stated electoral strategy is essentially “let’s throw spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks”

Oh no, please don’t go around telling everyone that the Dems are now led by an wildly popular and enormously talented young politician. That would just be horrible for the Dem party brand…