say no

Murray adds that he didn’t know how to say “no” in a healthy way and that he was burning the candle at both ends.

These so-called moderates might say nasty stuff about Gaetz off the record, or criticize his character, but how many of them are actually saying: “Donald Trump doesn’t get a blank check in the Senate, and we will exercise our duty to say no when we need to”? None of them have come out and declared: “We will say no.”

Senate and its members’ willingness to capitulate to you and your agenda, you might do what the president-elect just did: nominate a slew of underqualified and unsavory characters to lead the nation’s most important institutions, all at once, and dare the upper chamber’s majority to say “no.”

Having an attorney general with so much potentially compromising dirt on him could be an asset, it being hard to say “no” to someone would could arguably ruin you.

If Senate Republicans can’t say no to Gaetz, the Department of Justice as we know it will be gone, quite possibly forever.