Of those eight seats, only two are up in 2026, and those two Senators (Durbin, Shaheen) are not running for reelection. The others aren't up until 2028 or 2030. That's how they do these things. No one up in 2026 would have voted for it.

I'm on Tim Kaine's mailing list.

Since last November, his entire office/campaign has been heavy on optics throughout the state, all with a heavy lean towards business as usual. Only recently (late October) did he write about "challenging trump's reckless tariff policies", which was little more than a statement of fact than any actual coherent plan to solve anything. Most shockingly, this communique had ZERO mention about DOGE, and the thousands out of work right now in his state, let alone the government shutdown and the hungry poor people out there right now. Or any of the other politically relevant horrors we have going right now. It was easily one of the best written, carefully crafted, barely educational, worthless, tone-deaf, rage-inducing pieces of literature to hit my inbox, and includes a bottomless cornucopia of spam mail.

There's an old saying in politics: "never waste a good crisis." Well, this is a big one, and opportunities to be a hero with accolades and job security for life can be had at minimal effort. I can only conclude that the man's brain is located somewhere in the vicinity of his spine, both of which went missing back in 2024.

While I'm no longer a Virginian, I emplore those of you who are to vote this trash out.

Dick Durbin is the minority whip. There is no chance that the whip votes against the wishes of the senate minority leader. Despite Schumer's no vote, he supported the capitulation.

I'm so happy to have moved to PA and will eventually get to vote against this pos.

He's no better than a republican, so I'll feel no guilt voting 3rd party if his ass isn't primaried out

In all fairness, you know they had the full support of the Democratic Party.