Who are your two senators in the U.S. Senate and are you proud of them or ashamed?

[EEO]

I have Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, and they are pretty awesome. How about yours?

[Mass]

1. Warren and Markey

Pretty awesome too

[marym625]

3. lucky you

[Agschmid]

52. Same.

Pretty happy...

[marym625]

2. Senator Dick Durbin - Proud

Senator Mark Kirk - not so much. However, I will say as far as Republicans go, he's not the worst

[3catwoman3]

83. Fellow Illinois resident here.

Mark Kirk occasionally does the right thing, but I never know when that will be.

[marym625]

86. Yes, very unpredictable

But I would rather that than a predictable Republican.



How did the MMR immunizations go? Did more prior naysayers come in and have their children vaccinated?

[3catwoman3]

87. There have been a few more, as well...

...as a number of families opting to get an MMR before 12 months, knowing that 2 will still be needed at the usual intervals.

I live in the far northwest burbs of Chicago. How about you?

[marym625]

88. That's great to know!

Thank you.

Northside. Just a little north of Wrigleyville.

There's a few of us around. When it warms up, we should do a DU get together!

[3catwoman3]

89. I could be on board...

...for an IRL.

[marym625]

90. Cool

But I am useless in the winter. When it warms up!

[guillaumeb]

4. Can I trade you a Mark Kirk for Sheldon Whitehouse?

His verbal takedown of James Inhofe should be on every news channel. Really no contest though.

Kirk is a phony who tries to come across as more moderate than he is, but underneath his tailored shoes are Joni Ernst style breadbags.

Richard Durbin has lost some of his fire over the years but still a good Senator.

[EEO]

6. That's a negative on that trade.

[NPolitics1979]

19. You are likely to get Ladda Tammy D. as your new Senator next year and

Mark Kirk will become a lobbyist.

[guillaumeb]

22. you could be correct on Kirk

2016 should have a better turnout given the Presidential election. I know very little about Ms. Duckworth's positions. I could also see Lisa Madigan running. She has name recognition, is popular and might provide a challenge to other potential candidates. Might be the real reason she did not take on Quinn.

[NPolitics1979]

67. If Madigan wanted to be US Señator- she could have ran in 2010.

She would have defeated Giannoulias and Hoffman in the Democratic primary and would have defeated Kirk in the November General Election.
Kirk could end up Fitzgerald.
Regarding 2016. What if Kwame Raoul gets the Democratic nomination.

[Cooley Hurd]

5. Shumer and Gillibrand...

I like them both, especially Sen Gillibrand!

[madamesilverspurs]

7. I only have one senator,

Michael Bennet.

The other seat is now occupied by oil whore Cory Gardner. Last November, Colorado lost a senator (Mark Udall), the Koch's gained one.

[NPolitics1979]

17. Will CO elect a Democratic US Señator that is in the mold of

Boxer instead of Feinstein. Bennet's ideology and voting record is like Feinstein's.

[Agnosticsherbet]

8. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein

I like them both, though I think Boxer is a shade the better Senator.

[upaloopa]

14. And soon I hope we have Senator Harris

We need to work for Kamala Harris to replace Boxer I think.

[Agnosticsherbet]

15. She would make a great Senator, and I support her for that job.

[KamaAina]

34. More like 50 shades

[Agnosticsherbet]

48. My eyes are old and don't see as well as they once did. Boxer is definitly better.

[oldlib2]

36. Mine too

Both are outstanding.

[kimbutgar]

62. Boxer is a fighter, Feinstein is a corporate Dem who knows her way around Washington to get

Her legislation passed.

I look forward to Senator Harris

But I still can't believe the war criminal Condie Rice has a chance.

[TexasProgresive]

9. Why are you making me do this

Carnival Cruz and John Cornhole. No I am not proud- you gotta ask?
And then there's my slimy rep, Flores.

[guillaumeb]

11. my sincere condolences

Look on the bright side. Al least you do not have 3 Senators. Senator Louie Gohmert anyone?

[TexasProgresive]

16. Ah it just keeps on

Screwy Louie and Blake Farenthold.

[EEO]

12. My condolences.

[awoke_in_2003]

46. Same here...

with Burgess as my rep. Vomit inducing.

[CanonRay]

10. Wyden and Merkley!

So happy!

[Gothmog]

13. Ashamed

Carnivale Cruz and Cornyn

[LakeVermilion]

18. Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken

Proud, because they both get it. Franken is more liberal, but Klobuchar supports the middle class.

[femmocrat]

20. Bob Casey and Pat Toomey.

Toomey is an empty suit. Casey is a conserve-dem, but I think he is a conscientious senator. He's frequently on the local news regarding some issue or other. Toomey is the invisible man and we need to defeat him in 2016.

[LynneSin]

41. I don't think Casey is that conservative outside his stance on choice

Casey has always been strong when it comes to issues regarding Education and Labor - very pro-union. He worked hard with the healthcare reform and always a supporter of working class families. I know people see his stance on Abortions and slap the 'conservative' label on him but at least with Casey's abortion stance - he actually cares about the fetus once it is born. I would actually say Casey is one of the few people out there I would actually call pro-life.

I know there will be people who for whatever reason are against abortion but if they can fight to make things better for working class families, the 99%, I might give someone a pass on that issue. And a few times Casey has said there are enough laws out there regulating Abortion.

[femmocrat]

43. Thanks for the clarifications.

He is mostly a solid progressive. He is pro-life and pro-second amendment though. I respect that his stance on abortion is due to his religious beliefs. He has been excellent on health care and public education.

Here is a comprehensive summary of his positions: http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Bob_Casey.htm

[Corey_Baker08]

21. Democrat Sherrod Brown & Republican Rob Portman Of Ohio!

Senator Brown is an excellent public servant who has served Ohio & The Democratic Party as a model as to what A Democrat & A Senator is supposed to do & be!

I have no doubt that Senator Brown has a very bright future ahead of him & I wouldn't be surprised if he is tapped to be the Democratic Nominee for Vice-President in 2016!

I am not a fan of Rob Portman, however I admire his courage for standing with his son when he announced publicly that he is a proud gay American & Senator Portman said his view on homosexuality & same sex marriage has evolved.

However I am so excited about For Democratic Governor Ted Strickland challenging him & I am optimistic that Ohio will have 2 Democratic Senators representing us in Washington...

[justhanginon]

23. Sens. Durbin and Kirk. I pretty much like Sen. Durbin as

when I write letters to his office I usually get back a pretty decent response that speaks to the issues I might raise. That is appreciated. Sen. Kirk I do not care for, I think he is just another right winger but clothed in somewhat semi moderate rhetoric which belies his voting record.

[Blue_In_AK]

24. Lisa Murkowski and Ohio Dan Sullivan

I can't stand either one of them. Lisa is a two-faced word I can't say here, and Ohio Dan is a Koch-sucker.

[bravenak]

51. I hate them both.

[sinkingfeeling]

25. Boozman and the wonderful, gifted, rising-GOP-star, Cotton. Ashamed.

[DonViejo]

26. Don't blame me...

I'm from Massachusetts!

Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Ed Markey. Very proud of both.

[EEO]

27. Excellent pair.

That Martha Coakley is a joke, though.

[DonViejo]

28. And she's not in office, is she?...

MA voters liked her as AG and were happy with her remaining there.

[EEO]

29. That's why she is a joke. Losing to a Republican in Massachusetts. Twice.

Once for Teddy's seat and then for the governor's race. Hopefully she got the message this time.

[Agschmid]

53. We tend to elect Republican governors...

I'm not sure I blame her specifically.

[shopgirl]

58. Coakley is not a great campaigner ...

I have a good friend who is close to Martha Coakley and even she had to admit that Martha is not great on the campaign trail. I think she was a good public servant and would have made a fine governor, but she just has never connected with voters. Sometimes charisma is overrated ...

[EEO]

64. And the senate seat?

[Agschmid]

65. Fluke.

[EEO]

68. Right...

So neither was her fault...

[Agschmid]

69. Oh sorry it's totally 100% her fault.

I forgot we like to place blame around here... And never take ownership for ourselves.

[EEO]

72. Right, because there is no middle ground between that and you being an apologist....

[Agschmid]

73. I walked the middle ground in my original post...

You must have missed it.

[truebluegreen]

30. Michael Bennet D-Wall St. and Cory Gardner R-Crazytown

bleah

[hack89]

31. I have the same as you and I agree that they are awesome. nt

[Laf.La.Dem.]

32. Vitter and Cassidy

No words -

[KamaAina]

33. Boxer: proud Feinstein: ashamed

The wrong one is retiring.

[CTyankee]

35. Chris Murphy and Dick Blumenthal. I love them both!

I worked on Dick's campaign as a volunteer. His wife, Cyndi, was a volunteer fundraiser of mine when I was the major gifts officer of Planned Parenthood of CT. They are both strongly pro-choice. (Cyndi's father interestingly owns or did own then, the Empire State Building...)

Chris is our junior senator and he is terrific, too. Great speaker and very personable guy...

[karynnj]

37. Bernie Sanders and Pat Leahy

So glad to not have to say Menendez!

[Mike Nelson]

38. Boxer- Feinstein, and they're...

...much better than Wilson-Lundgren!

[sakabatou]

95. Yep

[LynneSin]

39. Chris Coons and Tom Carper - both Democrats in Delaware.

I adore Chris Coons. One of the best guys in the senate and so glad he is representing us although it's by pure luck we even got him as senator. He was the only one willing to run against long-time US Represenative Mike Castle, the very popular republican representative here Delaware (one of the few likable republicans) and whom everyone assumed would easily win the senate seat. This was for the open seat left behind when Biden became VP. Of course as you know back in 2010 Castle got upset in the primaries by Christine 'I am not a Witch' O'Donnell. That's what happens with closed primaries - open primaries the independants would have showed up and saved Castle. Coon easily won that election and re-election in 2014.

Carper is a bit more moderate for my taste and seems to be unbeatable in the primaries. But I think he is retiring soon so hopefully we can get another guy like Chris Coons in that second seat and perhaps one day Beau Biden (although Beau says he wants to be Governor).

[NPolitics1979]

42. If Carper were to retire in 2018, could he be replaced by

Jack Markell or John Carney.
If Carper were to retire in 2024- he could be replaced by Beau Biden- who will finish two terms as Governor.

[Iggo]

40. Boxer and Feinstein.

...and it depends on what day it is.

[mcar]

44. Bill Nelson and Rubio

Nelson is ok. Rubio

[NPolitics1979]

45. States with proud US Senator,and ashamed US Senators.

Proud
CA
CT
DE
HI
ME
MD
MA
MI
MN
NJ
NM
NY
OR
RI
VT
VA
WA
Ashamed
AL
AK
AZ
AR
GA
ID
IA
KS
KY
LA
MS
NE
NC
OK
SC
SD
TN
TX
UT
WY
Split
CO
FL
IL
IN
MO
MT
NV
NH
ND
OH
PA
WV
WI

[Rosa Luxemburg]

47. Very proud!

[oldandhappy]

49. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein

Proud and grateful. Very proud and grateful.

[Wounded Bear]

50. Murray and Cantwell...mostly proud...

Nobody's perfect, but they mostly do me proud.

[peacebird]

54. warner and kaine. Warner is a HUGE embarressment, an R in all but official affiliation. Kaine is a

mixed bag. Mostly ok, but sometimes a real loser.

[Half-Century Man]

55. Baldwin and johnson

Ms Tammy, she's good people.
lil' ronny, probably has some human DNA.

[shopgirl]

56. Warren and Markey

What's not to love?

[Bluzmann57]

57. I don't like either of the Senators from my state

Grassley and looney tunes Ernst. Yuck.

[3catwoman3]

84. I am not from Iowa...

...but I was deeply saddened when Senator Harkin announced his retirement.

Ernst is nucking futs.

[chillfactor]

59. Tom Udall and Martin Hienrich...

both awesome...both Democrats from New Mexico...

[Warpy]

107. It's not often that New Mexicans can be proud of anything

except the scenery and the cuisine.

Today we can be proud of Udall and Heinrich, especially if we were sensible enough to help to vote them into office.

[chillfactor]

110. Amen!

and I voted for both of them!

[Drunken Irishman]

60. Mike Lee and Orrin Hatch.

Guess how I feel about 'em.

[LynnTTT]

61. Lucky me;Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott

[northoftheborder]

63. Crazy Cruz and Annoying Cornyn

Ashamed is too tame a word. One is an zealot and the other a hypocritical conservative.

[Thinkingabout]

94. I was waiting for some else to jump out on these, terrible and Culbertson isnt a good one either.

[LiberalElite]

66. Whitehouse is awesome to the enth degree!

Mine are Gillibrand and Schumer. Meh.

[blue neen]

70. Casey and Toomey.

Proud of Senator Bob Casey. Toomey? Well, 2016 can't come soon enough so we can vote this Club for Growth hack out of office. He does nothing for PA. Absolutely nothing.

[Paladin]

71. Cornyn and Cruz.

I'm a lifelong Texas Democrat. How the fuck do you think I feel about those two morons?

[First Speaker]

74. Dick Blumenthal and Chris Murphy...and I love them...

...especially Dick Blumenthal. A really good guy, very nice on the few occasions I've met him. I wish he'd run for Prez...

[treestar]

75. Coons and Carper

Both OK. Coons is really pretty good. He even conference calls constituents.

[SamKnause]

76. Rob Portman; thumbs down

Sherrod Brown; thumbs up

[stage left]

77. Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott.

Proud or ashamed? What do you think? I didn't vote for them so that makes me feel a little better.

[Lil Missy]

78. Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley BLEH!!

[gwheezie]

79. Kaine and Warner

I like kaine better for his climate change initiative in va and his insistence congress needs to vote before going to war.
Warner is too conservative however I've gotten replies to several emails I sent him about mental health and using jails to house the mentally ill.
I'm glad we replaced Webb with kaine.

[leftofcool]

80. I'm from Kentucky, what do you think?

[jwirr]

81. Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar. Love Al. Amy is pretty good.

[Persondem]

82. Burr and Tillis

The only good thing about having them in D.C. is that they are farther from NC and so can do less direct harm to us. Scary though that Tillis may try to do to the country what he did in NC. Burr is kind of a do nothing frat boy who votes the wrong way.

[lutefisk]

85. Ron Johnson- I apologize

Tammy Baldwin- You're welcome

[DFW]

91. I prefer not to think about it

I'm from Texas.

Like my old friend Stan says, "'nuff said!"

[Hekate]

92. Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein, both outstanding Dems, each in her own way

They know how to get the job done.

[AverageJoe90]

93. Cornyn and Cruz, and ashamed of both of these douchebags. nt

[Still In Wisconsin]

96. Tammy Baldwin and Ron "Senator Dumbass" Johnson

Tammy is awesome.

[Ex Lurker]

97. Vitter and Cassidy. Need I say more

Vitter is running for governor now, and will be a big improvement over Jindal if he wins, and he probably will. Which doesn't say anything good about Vitter, it just shows what a disaster Jindal has been.

[Marrah_G]

98. Same and I agree they are pretty awesome

[bigwillq]

99. Blumenthal and Murphy.

Not proud or ashamed. Can't really say I am proud of any politician. They do a fairly decent job, so I approve of their performance to this point.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

100. Dan Coats (R) & Joe Donnelly (D)

I detest Coats, a formerly retired retread who was brought back to life as a ringer in 2010. I tolerate Donnelly, who is a Bayh-like Blue Dog Dem (which is pretty much the only type that can get elected here in Indiana and, frankly, he got a bit lucky when Richard Mourdock took down Richard Lugar and then killed his campaign with stupid rape remarks). Indiana politics have sucked for awhile now. They've held the governor ship for a decade now and the Dems have been driven to extinction in the legislature and the one major statewide office we won in 2012, the State Superintendent office, has been effectively neutered by Pence and the Republican-dominated legislature. I live in Indy, which is a fairly progressive bastion of light in an otherwise rural and rich Republican-controlled state.

[7wo7rees]

101. Cornyn and Cruz. Horrified beyond embarrassed! n/t

Mom

[cilla4progress]

102. Awesome question, and I have

an awesome answer:

PATTY MURRAY and MARIA CANTWELL!!!!!!!!!!!

[handmade34]

103. Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy

[elleng]

103. Mikulski and Cardin.

Pleased with them, and sorry to be losing Mikulski. Hoping to elect another good liberal.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

105. Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar.

I love Franken. Klobuchar, though a Democrat, is kind of meh; she introduces feel-good legislation and generally avoids controversy.

[malokvale77]

106. For crying out loud...

See if you care to wake up in the morning knowing you have John Cornyn and Ted Cruz representing you.

How fucking awesome is that?

[old guy]

108. Johnson and Baldwin

Johnson is a repub, nuff said. Baldwin attended the speech today, very disappointed. Will call her tomorrow and express my disgust.

[Still Sensible]

109. Inhofe and Lankford.... yikes

There are no words!

[missingfink]

111. Going back in time......

At one time, Missouri had for its two Senators Tom Eagleton (D) and John Danforth (R). These two were replaced by (R's) John Ashcroft and Kit Bond. Talk about going from the penthouse to the basement in a hurry......

[BainsBane]

112. Franken and Klobuchar

They're okay.

[sportsterchic]

113. Wicked Proud

MA
Warren
Markey

[Manifestor_of_Light]

114. They don't represent me.

Not even close.
Carnival Cruz and Cornyn.


GAKKK!!!