democrat. we used to live in a world where we had strong parties. we had tammany hall and they picked the candidates. now we have a lot of partisanship but very weak parties. at the end of the day, the quality of the candidate matters. in this particular case, the candidate disqualified himself. okay. the reality now is that the democrats hold 49 seats in the senate. the republicans have 51. so mo, mitch mcconnell and the republican senate leader, he said that he will not be seating jones until the tax bill is passed. that should happen till around christmas. they ll rush this bill through. that in itself is not a good look, but it will probably pass. but what about 2018 and the agenda? they couldn t get anything done with 52 senators. i m guessing it s going to be hard we are 35er with 51. it will be very difficult for