want to do is a lot of stuff that will hurt themselves and their party's policy priorities and help the republicans get what they want without a sweat. today white house chief of staff dennis mcdonough went to capitol hill and told senate democrats that for this last lame duck session while democrats are still in control of the senate, what they should focus on is things that the senate can do alone, and things that the senate can do with a majority vote while democrats still hold that majority. he said specifically they should focus on nominations, on getting the president's nominees confirmed. >> we talked about nominations generally and we really want to get, obviously, get some progress and get our people into the slots because we have a lot of important work to do. >> there's one thing that senate democrats definitely can do right now alone with this last bit of power that they've got before the republicans take control of the senate. they can confirm president obama's pending...