Senate Dems throw their base a bone (doesn’t matter how useless it is) before they return as the minority party.

Via The Hill:

Gun control and public health groups were quick to cheer the Senate’s decision Monday to confirm Dr. Vivek Murthy as the next surgeon general.

Murthy, a Harvard and Yale-educated physician, was narrowly confirmed by the Senate after more than a year of delays over his stance on gun control.

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence released a statement minutes after the vote calling Murthy’s appointment a “huge victory” for gun control supporters.

“Now we have a Surgeon General who recognizes that gun violence is a serious public health issue that America urgently needs to address,” the organization’s president Dan Gross wrote.

“This victory represents a major triumph over the corporate gun lobby ‘lap dogs’ in the Senate who fought to defeat Dr. Murthy’s confirmation on behalf of their billion-dollar benefactors,” he said.