Emerging leader Sen. Chris Van Hollen says he is refusing to fund the government next month until the war is defunded.

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    6 hours ago

    The best part about being one of his constituents is I never need to write him a letter urging him to vote the way I want him to, he just does it.

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      I guess the dynamic is similar for Schumer’s constituents, but because he’ll never vote the way they want.

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    Holy crap America … you need an ancient wizard to tell you to get rid of the dinosaur in your midst?

    I love Bernie Saunders and I think he’s great … but you really need to get some younger people into positions of power to get you through the next few decades or you’ll be thrown under the bus of more progressive countries around the world or else you’ll just fall under a total facist state because your elderly leadership was easily coerced.

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      I think Sander’s knows he’s too old for leadership at this point. The man he is proposing for Majority Leader is 67, which is still old, but only a little bit above the average for the Senate, and quite a few years younger than the 85-y-o Sanders.