You're welcome on he confirmation hearing posts. It's just a case of "Surely the next one can't be so ba--Holy Crap, they did what?!?" Elaine Chao was a pleasant surprise for turning out to be only a normal-level Evil Republican.

And I like the idea of a puppy gif day -- but there'll be cat gifs too, right? ;-) (One of my favorite bits of the election was Hillary's remark that sometimes even she needed to go look at cat gifs.)