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Since McConnell’s pet candidate lost the GOP primary to Rand Paul in 2010, Mitch has rigidly adhered to what the base wants at every turn. There’s no genius to his strategy - he’s just covering his own ass. It’s completely predictable and happens without fail.
This is just the latest example of McConnell caving. Assuming Trump threatened to veto the spending bill, McConnell had a choice: override Trump’s veto and protect the prerogatives of the Senate, or cave and support a national emergency he knows is not real. He caved.
McConnell's decision to block Garland only looks brilliant in retrospect. The day Scalia died, there was a GOP presidential debate in the evening where Cruz was expected to call on McConnell to block any Obama SCOTUS nominee. McConnell rushed out a statement to get ahead of Cruz.
McConnell had just seen Boehner get bounced by the Tea Party. He never expected Trump to win, as he's said. He blocked Garland to protect his own ass & won the biggest jackpot in political history. It wasn't genius- it was just rigid obedience to the base. thehill.com/homenews/admin…
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If you read @GlennKesslerWP as a columnist with a point of view, he's a very consistent and thoughtful advocate for late-nineties/early-aughts centrism. It's the Post's decision to drape him in the mantle of unbiased holder of truths that's the problem.
And before we do "guhhh the left hates facts too," what the Harris piece demonstrates is that it's not the fact-checking part that's objectionable - it's the thick layer of editorializing that's applied over the facts. That's what turns the pieces into columns, not "fact-checks."
Further to this point. @GlennKesslerWP isn't a "fact-checker," he's a columnist with a point of view.
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Not watching SOTU and it’s great. Can’t remember a SOTU mattering as little as this one.
They’re pagan lights, people. Calm down. We’re allowed to still have them up. And yes, I slipped on my Birks for the stroll over to the co-op.
Literally walked these birks over to the co-op and back and apparently he’s still talking. Gonna put away these bulk grains and check back in after.
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Boo fucking hoo
Guys: they *always* find something. Ffs they rallied behind a made-up process foul to ignore the fact that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted Ford. We can’t live in fear of the counterargument they’ll make, because they’ll always find some bullshit and make reporters believe they care.
They invented the fucking “Biden rule” to block Garland & reporters bought that. They pretended they cared about amendments and open process & reporters bought that. They pretended that Obama not golfing with them was why they wouldn’t work with him & reporters bought that.
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