Also, votes are a time when one can exercise leverage. Letters? They come after someone has kissed most leverage away.
And then said, But I'll vote for you even though you are pro-torture. Ergo, he is ON THE RECORD supporting a torturer.
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Look, I get you believe in magic fairy advise and consent votes, where someone can disavow principle. That's not democracy.
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we will have to disagree. If pompeo answers his questions more quickly because of courtesy, it's better than nothing (protest)
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A vote is not "protest." It is what Warner is constitutionally called on to do, but which he abdicated.
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Constitutionaly, the Senate consented. I don't demand my Senator cast a feel good vote if it can help his relationship w/cia
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He's supposed to be oversight, not dating the agency. You don't exercise oversight by handing away all your leverage
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how would a no vote have given leverage? Thats the mechanism I don't understand
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Yes, I see that.
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c'mon, no need for snark. Same side here. Hypothetical Leverage is gone after vote...How do we know it wasn't used?
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Look, I'm actually writing stuff. There is 1) constitutional duty Warner shirked 2) no obvious payback 3) tactics.
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