So basically the bullies won.

[cilla4progress]

Anyone read Politico reporter Mark Albert's tweets this morning about what is motivating even retiring Congresspersons?

Fear. Fear of being bullied at home. Oh, and of course, problems with earning potential after their term/s.

Maybe someone has a link.

[elleng]

1. yes

[Efilroft Sul]

2. They're rich enough to move away, perhaps to the upscale neighborhoods of Moscow for example.

[abqtommy]

3. Yeah, the bullies/reTHUGS won this one but WE won the one before this, the one where WE

did impeach the Mango Mussolini. (We can do that again, too, ad infinitum.) In each case we all used the same tactics... Let's get ready for round 3!

[Bayard]

4. Yeah

I learned this the hard way spending several years in a lawsuit in the Fresno court system--the people who scream the loudest and lie like crazy always win.

Feeling pretty jaded this evening.

[Hortensis]

5. So basically We Knew It November 6, 2016.

We've forced them to show what they've become to the nation, and that's a victory. Trump's a dangerous metastasis, not the cancer. Oh, true, some might mistakenly imagine Trump's the cancer and congressional Republicans are the metastasis, but it's a real advance over most people imagining all would be mostly fine again after Trump's gone.

The battle continues.