Carper and Coons both voted to confirm Trump’s money launderer
Your representatives in the US Senate just blithly voted to confirm Wilbur Ross as secretary of commerce despite the fact that Ross appears to have recently been involved with laundering hundreds of millions of Putin’s money through a Cyprus bank that caters to wealthy Russians. Ross and his Cypriot bank is also connected to a $100 million cash payment to Trump for a distressed Florida estate the Republican President purchased at auction for $40 million two years ago.
That wealthy Russians use Trump to launder money is one thing. Cheaters are going to cheat. But that Carper and Coons care so little about their “advise and consent” role in the Senate is truly disgusting. 
I would call Coons and Carper spineless, but that would be offensive to all invertebrates.
Until they get a primary they will never change, to vote no would have changed nothing but it was still too much to ask.
For the most part, they vote like Republicans
Coons and Carper LOVE being in the minority. They can vote against Republican measures, secure in the knowledge that it will pass despite their vote. Those are free votes for them, tallied up as “voting with Democrats” but still not vexing their corporate sponsors.
Being in the majority party makes Carper very uncomfortable, as we saw from his behavior in committee when Democrats last held both houses. Coons has never been in the majority but I expect the same from him.
Now the test will be, as the Repub legislative agenda rolls along, will Coons and Carper join filibusters? Or will they cravenly allow the votes and then vote against the Repub bills?
There is not a lot of mystery around that question. They will cravenly allow the votes and then vote against the Repub bills. It is the perfect having cake and eating it scenario.
Has anyone seen the TV commercials from the drug industry fat cats thanking Tom Carper for protecting us from foreign imported drugs which are not safe? That was for his vote against importing drugs to save consumers money…Unreal.
Did you see Rachel Maddows show last night? She tied together the history of the Russian mob oligarchs and Trumpolini. Wilbur Ross now the Commerce Secretary is another Russian go between. Is the entire Trump camp now in Russian hands?
I saw it, and then looked up Carper and Coons’ votes. The Trump WH is completely compromised by the Russians. With votes like this one, I have to wonder if Coons and Carper are also somehow on Putin’s payroll?
Assuming that neither Senator Carper nor Senator Coons is politically stupid — and you don’t win Senate elections by being politically stupid — and both of them knowing that Mr Ross would be confirmed by a large margin (the final vote was 72-27), why would either of them have voted for confirmation if Mr Ross really is as bad, or even as close to as bad, as you have said? After all, as both Puck and Jason said, this was a free vote for not just them, but every Democrat, the ability to vote against confirmation, secure in the knowledge that he’d be confirmed anyway.
Perhaps Messrs Carper and Coons simply believed that Mr Ross was a good nominee, and that voting for confirmation wouldn’t hurt them with the majority of Delaware primary voters. If that’s the case, it would seem that the two senators do not believe that ‘progressives’ constitute a majority among Delaware Democrats.
No drumpf nominee is a good nominee. All are vetted and signed-off by Bannon.
Perhaps they don’t want to be seen as “against everything,” even though that’s pretty much how the Republicans in both Senate and House acted for most of the previous eight years.
I see no value in this tactic, but I’m pretty sure it enters their thinking.