COONS: So top causes (of Senate polarization). We don’t live together. So we travel back and forth to our home states every week. For Delaware, I’ve traveled back and forth to my home state almost every day, so I’m an exception.
But for most of the Senate, listening to Joe Biden, my predecessor, and asking him how he and John McCain, for example, built a working friendship over decades, everyone would come in on Monday and stay until Friday, and often move their families here and often live here for long periods of time.
Senators need to live, love and pray together so Democrats can learn how to compromise better. Coons is very committed to this idea. Get a load of this…
…And when I got back, I made a point of going up to several, relatively, new senators who I overlap with on a committee, an area of interest, an area of background, but where we don’t really know each other that well.
And I said, bluntly, I want to come get to know you. I want to come to your state. I want to come to your home. I welcome you to mine. I’d like to go to worship together. I’d like to give a speech together. I’d like to find a way to legislate together. Because if there aren’t people I can work with, there is really no point in my being here, first.
They need to eat their Republican Sandwiches and pray together. That’s the ticket!
That was from September 2018. Coons’ heroic GOP ass-kissing campaign has yet to bear any fruit.
