Pres. Trump never served in elected office until 2017. His interactions with Congress have so far included signing ceremonies, a gift of Starbursts, and leaders who remain wary of angering him or his core voters and therefore praise him, at least publicly.
Today, that changes.
— Robert Costa (@costareports) January 3, 2019
Me: New Congress should certainly investigate and run oversight, but should not preempt the Mueller case or SDNY investigation and must focus on highlighting a positive, bold, progressive vision for America.
Also Me: https://t.co/NZOwbgvhYv
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) January 4, 2019
… all my troubles seemed so far away. pic.twitter.com/wSmtFqOhdT
— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 4, 2019
Elsewhere, in a happier timeline:
To the women sworn in to Congress today, the most in our history: Congratulations. Knock it out of the park. pic.twitter.com/Kj7uyKFxEg
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) January 3, 2019
In her 2008 Primary concession speech, Hillary Clinton said that there was a success even in her losing:
It would now be unremarkable for a woman to seek the presidency, to win primaries, to be the nominee.
It would be unremarkable for women to seek even the highest office.
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— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) January 4, 2019
In celebrating them, it’s worth remembering:
Remarkable successes are helped to become possible by the people who made it unremarkable to even try.
While it is a legacy some will deny, woven into the fabric of today’s many Firsts are threads first sewn by Hillary Clinton.
5/5
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) January 4, 2019
Damn straight pic.twitter.com/d5tVo7ZX9q
— laura olin (@lauraolin) January 4, 2019
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sukabi
Gotta be petty. it makes me ?????? to see gowdy leaving like a broken clown.
OzarkHillbilly
Your morning Blech:
There is simply a moral rot at the heart of the GOP.
GregB
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
But she’s always a woman to me.
low-tech cyclist
The Congress of the United States looks a lot more like America this morning than it did yesterday morning.
Long overdue, but it’s happening.
OzarkHillbilly
Backlash Blech:
MagdaInBlack
@OzarkHillbilly:
That video was delightful.
These are people who are born yelling at clouds and worry their whole lives that someone somewhere is having a good time.
Or as I call them” carpetpissers.”
OzarkHillbilly
@MagdaInBlack: Having fun??? How undignified!!!
MagdaInBlack
@OzarkHillbilly:
…..could lead to…*gasp*… Dancing! …..?
Mary G
@MagdaInBlack: I just don’t understand why some people cling so tightly to hate. I left one of the mocking comments on that tweet and the ratio was astounding, something like 3,000 to 132 at the time. Even the Russian bots couldn’t bring themselves to like it.
ETA: Hoarse is absolutely right that today wouldn’t have happened if Hillary had won. It took that enormous insult to rouse the rage that made so many people determined to avenge her or die trying.
OzarkHillbilly
@MagdaInBlack: And Laughter!!!
MagdaInBlack
@Mary G:
Resentment and anger are powerful drugs. I imagine it has to do with highly magnified personal insecurity.
I look to our present occupant of the oval office as a prime example.
It must be a sad thing to go thru life never seeing the magic.
satby
@Mary G: That entire Hoarse Whisperer thread brought me to tears this morning.
In a more sane, less racist and misogynist country we could have had both Clinton as President and a better, more diverse Congress.
JPL
@OzarkHillbilly: The Washington Post also had an article about her dance routine. Personally, I was a little green with envy.
Butch
Good lord – plaid, and Gowdy looks like he slept in them. Don’t give up your day job for fashion consulting, dude.
Karen S.
Gowdy’s unrecognizable, to me at least, in that sad trombone photo of him. What a wreck.
germy
@Karen S.: The only person he trusts is his barber.
JR
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m guessing that “AnonymousQ” has upwards of 100 bumper stickers on his kidnappervan.
schrodingers_cat
What is a Hindu Vera? The book I see there is the Geeta, which is a part of the Mahabharata. There are 4 vedas and they are much older than the Geeta.
Geeta = comes from geet which means song in Sanskrit. It is a long poem about the advice Krishna gives Arjun at the beginning of the battle of Kurukshetra, where he faces his cousins, friends, relatives and teachers whom he reveres.
schrodingers_cat
And Vedas predate the Geeta by hundreds of years. They are not the same thing.
Steeplejack
@Anne Laurie:
I don’t see a food joke anywhere, so it should be “just deserts” in the title. From the same root word as deserve.
Grumble, grumble.