he has never accomplished anything. and he seems to take sort of a perverse pleasure in using these opportunities to twist the knife on democrats. this seems to be why he exist in the senate. i was there when he blocked cassandra. she was a friend of mine. it was deeply heartbreaking then. he clearly has not learned anything. he clearly regrets nothing about that episode. but this seems to be what gets him up in the morning and gives him purpose in his service in the united states senate. and i think that s deeply sad. so, the other big news is that there is some deal that i can even make sense of. they are going to raise the debt ceiling with a onetime vote to evade the filibuster so that the vote for the one that would raise the debt ceiling without the filibuster doesn t count. as a bill to raise the debt ceiling, it s procedural nonsense. but it s the way the senate functions. and a lot of people said elizabeth warren said that if you can make this is election here, why not make it