Who are the ten worst Senators in America?

[MurrayBannerman]

Barbara Boxer
Harry Reid
Dianne Feinstein
Ted Cruz
Cory Booker
Jim Inhofe
Jay Rockefeller
Bob Menendez
Chuck Schumer
Lamar Alexander

[Maxwell]

Diane Feinstine
Richard Blumenthal
Harry Reid
Amy Klobuchar
Jim Inhofe
John McCain
Lindsey Graham
Bob Menendez
Chuck Schumer
Mark Pryor

Dishonorable mentions: Mitch McConnell, Ted Cruz, Bob Casey Jr, Jay Rockefeller, and Mary Landrieu

[Person Man]

I know you're a libertarian and he's a socon, but why Bob Casey?  I think he's pretty reasonable.

[Maxwell]

I know you're a libertarian and he's a socon, but why Bob Casey?  I think he's pretty reasonable.

Pro-spying, Pro-Life, Pretty much votes party line on economics. What's to like about him?

[ElectionsGuy]

Feinstein
Graham
McCain
McConnell
Reid
Schumer
Menendez
Rubio
Boxer
Alexander

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Harkin is decent, but I believe he had some fruitloops beliefs on alternative healthcare.

Anyway off the top of my head:

Craziest Newcomer: Joni Ernst

Lifetime Underachivement Award: Thad Cochran (with the loss of Akaka last year)

Most Likely to start WWIII : John McCain

Corrupt Party Apparatchik: Bob Menendez (for that weird scandal that didn't make sense, but still was all kinds of odd)

The Joe E. Lieberman Prize for Media Whorism: Cory Booker (oh so many candidates)

The Ben Nelson Society of Ineffectual Moderate Heroism: Mark Warner (and for that matter, most politicians named "Mark")

Worst State Couple: Ted Cruz/John Cornyn

Worst Male Senator: Ted Cruz

Worst Female Senator: Dianne Feinstein

Wlll (not) be missed: Saxby Chambiss

[SWE]

In no particular order:

James Inhofe
Jeff Sessions
Ted Cruz
Susan Collins
Mitch McConnell
David Vitter
Marco Rubio
Tom Coburn
Lindsey Graham
John Cornyn

[Person Man]

01. Edwardo Rafael Cruz (R-Texas). Way too ideological, self-interested, and massively uninterested in anything but political and ideological advancement. There is also the fact he led the GOP into a government shutdown and is grandstanding to gain votes from the Right in the primary, instead of cooperating with Mitch McConnell.

02. Pat Roberts (R-Kansas). The man is out to lunch, out to dinner, and out to everything else. He barely survived re-election, despite no achievements in his legislative career and barely residing in Kansas.

03. Harry Mason Reid (D-Nevada). Has definitely poisoned the well as Majority Leader and led to the death of the filibuster, as well as turned the Senate into a smaller version of the House. I'm glad he's gone as Majority Leader.

04. Charles Schumer (D-New York). Basically a showboat senator who isn't interested in representing New York as much as he's interested in moving up the ladder in the Democratic Party and being in front of a camera at all times. I don't think Charles Schumer knows what the average New Yorker cares about and hasn't since his election in 1998.


05. James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma). Being a climate denialist is a bad thing for the GOP and the country at large. For him to take over the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works is probably one of my two sole disappointments at a new GOP majority. Inhofe simply isn't the right man to helm that Committee. It's my regret McConnell didn't step in to override the seniority system and get Inhofe out.

06. Dianne Feinstein (D-California). I don't know what it is about that woman, but she just irritates me. She has this naked self-interest and desire to preserve her career at all costs, even though she has a guaranteed safe seat in California. Also, I admit to being a civil libertarian, so her behavior, in general, irritates me. Not that Senator Burr will be any better in charge of the Intelligence Committee.

No other senator really stands out as irritating or incompetent to me. The showboats, the over 80 year crowd, and those there who are literally collecting a paycheck without doing a thing are probably the others, but that's probably 30 senators, or 40 senators.

Very well reasoned for all of these. It seems like a bunch of senior level people who aren't who they are for being good looking (They're dicks) and safe seat folks who are maybe half a step above mid century machine mayors who are incompetent and immoral and only have their jobs because they are a product of a broken electorate riddled with uneducated voters who keep showing up for them because of the "lavish gifts" (in the case of Republicans, targeted tax breaks, regulatory variances and religious patronage and in the case of Democrats, more concrete benefits and for all, mountains of pork)   bestowed upon them.

[Mister Mets]

Based on my fairly limited understanding.

In no particular order, excluding newcomers and the 12 departures...
Harry Reid
Barbara Boxer
Ted Cruz
Bob Menendez
Claire McCaskill
David Vitter
Richard Blumenthal
Chuck Schumer
Debbie Stabenow
Barbara Mikulski

[MATTROSE94]

1. Ted Cruz
2. Mike Lee
3. Jeff Sessions
4. Jim Inhofe
5. Tim Scott
6. Harry Reid
7. Dianne Feinstein
8. Roy Blunt
9. Barbara Boxer
10. Bob Menendez

Dishonorable mentions: Joni Ernst, Mark Pryor and Saxby Chambliss.

[TDAS04]

Ted Cruz
James Inhofe
David Vitter
Jerry Moran
Mark Pryor
Lindsay Graham
Jeff Sessions
Pat Roberts
Tom Coburn
Saxby Chambliss

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

As always, excluding anyone who was just defeated:

Jim Inhofe
Mike Lee
Ted Cruz
Harry Reid
Mitch McConnell
Barbara Boxer
Chuck Schumer
Pat Roberts
Chris Murphy
Elizabeth Warren