My Senator, Senator Menendez, is a coward.
There, I've said it.
I know this because I have worked in Congress. When a "spokesman" tells those inquiring about his leaked anonymous hold - via Email no less - that
"It is our office's policy not to speculate or comment on anonymous holds or rumors of anonymous holds, across the board."
You know that the spokesman is operating with the imprimatur of the Boss.
Harvard physicist John Holdren - an expert on Climate Change who has proposed bold solutions in re-starting a green economy - is exactly what this country desperately needs - with not a day to spare. But Senator Menendez is taking the coward's path to stop the vote - just so Menendez can push an unrelated issue that he should be talking about separately - moreover, it is a hold that he will not even admit to doing.
Coward.
Senator Menendez deserves to be inundated with calls not merely for his unprincipled willingness to hold up votes on an important Climate Change expert - while New Jersey chokes - but also because, in the casee of the most open and receptive President in U.S. History to requests for time to discuss issues - Menendez, a powerhouse in the Senate - does not have the cojones to make his case public.
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