As I leave the Senate, I have to admit that it feels like we are losing the war for truth, he said

[Ghost Owl]

19. There are plenty of strong liberal voices out there

and they can't do a damn thing but talk nice, because they don't actually have power. They speak eloquently and truthfully and cuttingly, and not a damn thing changes. It's poetry shouted into the dark.

Now one strong liberal voice who actually had power, who made a difference, no longer has it. That's not a positive. We lost.

If we lost for a good reason, that he really was a predator, that would be one thing. It would hurt but it would be acceptable, it would doing what was right. But we don't know if that's why we lost, because nobody bothered to look into it. Dems read some disturbing stories in the paper, and instead of investigating them, they just assumed that Jezebel and Politico have the best vetting standards in the world, and shot their foot off for optics. Because they thought "Hey,what can we lose? Minnesota has a Dem governor, so we won't have to actually pay a price, and this jumped-up comedian with aims above his station will be put back in his place as a commentator and nothing more."

Don't kid yourself into thinking Dems did this JUST because it was the right thing to do. They didn't. They did it because they thought it would make them look good and they wouldn't have to actually pay a price for it. That's not the moral high ground. Yeah, they're better than the Republicans, but that's not hard to do these days. Restrain yourself from punching sick children and you're automatically better than most Republicans in Congress.