re: #243 ckkatz

I think that you are bringing up the big question here:

What is her goal?

Because her current behavior does not look sustainable beyond her current term.

I am assuming, of course, that she is smart enough and disciplined enough to have a goal.

Beyond angering everybody. Because, she has definitively and successfully achieved that already.

Given that there might be information not available to the public which would make her behavior make sense. However, it seems from my point of view that there are two options:
1) She has deluded herself into thinking her current behavior will not be a detriment to being reelected - assuming she runs for another term.
2) Her goal was to convert a single 6-year term as a US Senator into a future cushy job plus probably banking away a decent sum of cash by the time her term is complete. (I don’t know what the current rules are for unspent campaign funds are, but I presume there is still something in place allowing them to cash them out to their own benefit still since if I recall correctly that could be done in the past.)*

* - Probably with some stipulations, but I always thought it was sort of shady that they could eventually take that money. If not, then presumably it can be donated to other campaigns and thus be used as a way to purchase some influence of something in the future.