Barbara Boxer: “I think by nominating you, President-elect Obama has sent a message that world peace and stability trumps politics and…”

Good on Gavin Newsom for being the bigger person to show up and say, Mr. President, I'm glad you're here.

It's up to his colleagues to determine if they want such a coward, such a liar, to be their leader, and or maybe even speaker.

This is a sad moment, we always had two parties, one was to the right of center, one was to the left of center, and we never had a party, so extreme and so willing to become the party of grievance and anger and division.

We Democrats, we do have a very good and diverse coalition. It truly is diverse, everywhere you look at it. But in terms of leadership in Congress, it is true, they’re getting older.