and that statement is based off us holding a 53-47 majority, probably even 54-46.
I have posted extensively with links and lists on all this. feel free to check them out.
here is one
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100214264999#post15
It is insanity, IMHO. I tried my best to get rid of Feinstein (and not just for this) but Kevin de León (whom I voted for in the jungle CA primary and then in the general) lost despite me working my social set HARD (obviously I am but one person, so taken in the totality of things, I have fuckall for power, and it takes tens of thousand, hundreds of thousands of 'Celerities' to make an impact in CA state-wide elections)
We have far too many bi-partisanship-loving moderates and centrists to effectively combat an completely radicalised Rethug congressional group. A pack of rattlesnakes (the Rehugs now) will bite yer arse even it you talk nice to them. People who champion continued attempts at comity and working with 'moderate Rethugs' are leading us down the path to ruination from multiple perspectives. Rethugs now want total power, and want us (literally) dead or enslaved in a christofascist Gilead of their choosing. There is no compromising with them (although when it comes to expansion of the MIC and a continued patting on the back of systemic banking control, I am sure bi-partisanship will magically appear 
) It will also magically appear, I fear, to scupper the public option (forget about M4A ever passing for decades, if ever) Also, if our party is driven even further to the right (chasing the mythical moderate Rethugs, etc) we are going to bleed out HARD on our left flank. I can hear the new mantra from that centre.right friendly crowd now: It will be some variant of 'We can never ever have a Trump again, and if we do not accept and attract the centre right, we will have another Trump and will have less power, as it is a centre-right nation now if we do not make ourselves centre-right friendly'.
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