NEW in Transition Playbook w/ @theodoricmeyer

Where’s Greg? (Schultz)
Biden’s first campaign manager is not join the admin now
He was angling for political director before it meant reporting to Jen O’Malley Dillon, who replaced him during the campaign.
politico.com/newsletters/tr…
Schultz has become a surprisingly divisive figure w/ some feeling he was made to be a scapegoat even though the theory of the case to win the primary proved correct

Others say they won in spite of Greg and the strategy came from many sr. Ppl.
Here’s one: “he couldn’t execute”
MORE
Personnel scooplet: @robsfriedlander
is the new associate director for communications in the White House’s Office of Management and Budget.

Gina Raimondo’s financial disclosure form is boring.

The left-wing praises Biden’s ethics plan (seriously)
And perhaps my favorite oppo book ever courtesy of @theodoricmeyer
Biden’s pick for CFPB @hitchop was one of the first Facebook users.
He used the “poke” button. A lot.
And he likes to dodge reporters.

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22 Jan
NEW: My deep dive into the 36-year McConnell-Biden relationship

How Biden's deal w/ McConnell on "fiscal cliff" made Reid so mad he demanded Obama bench Biden next time

a fresh look at the Bork hearings

Obama + aides skepticism that Joe can make it work
politico.com/news/magazine/…
typo fixed
Some bits:
Sen. COONS, a moderate Biden ally, says it would be "reductionist" to assume Biden won't get rid of the filibuster of his history/love of the Senate.

“We are in a dire crisis and he ISN'T going to sit by for four years and see his entire agenda stymied”
1 thing McConnell & Obama aides agree on: it wasn't that Obama didn't schmooze enuf w/ McConnell
Don "Stew" Stewart, McConnell's frm deputy Cos:
“It’s not personality, it’s policy. None of the beers or whiskey or anything matters. If your policy stinks, it’s not going anywhere”
Read 7 tweets
20 Jan
NEWS in Transition Playbook w/ @theodoricmeyer

Sen. Chris Coons on Biden 2024: “He is planning to run again."

More: "He knows that we are at the middle of an absolute turning point, a pivot point in American history. And he's up for the challenge.”

politico.com/newsletters/tr…
Oppo Book: What did @RonaldKlain's wife say about Kevin Spacey playing him in the HBO movie about the 2000 Florida recount?

"He may be better-looking than you and more glamorous — but you have a full head of hair, and he doesn’t!”

FYI: Klain continues to have excellent hair
Trivia: which President said this in their 2nd inaugural address?
“During this course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare."

politico.com/newsletters/tr…
Read 4 tweets
20 Jan
NEWS in TP w/ @theodoricmeyer

How Biden ruined our cabinet predictions

sr. transition aides are staying on up to 60 days more including @AndrewBatesNC who is expected to go to WH after

& the Biden cabinet pick who used to host a weekly erotica reading
politico.com/newsletters/tr…
Scoop: a list of the transition aides staying on for cabinet picks, etc. b/c of delays in confirmations

The virtual inauguration is also making it harder for Biden to reward his big inaugural donors. One event for major donors? a “preferred viewing” Zoom w/ Bradley Whitford.
and DNI nominee Avril Haines is the one who used to host erotica nights at a local bookstore she co-founded in Baltimore. Here's a write up from the Sun in 1995 w/ Haines reading lines from "The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty” (our summary below)

baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-19…
Read 4 tweets
9 Jan
NEW in Transition Playbook was @theodoricmeyer

Impeachment threatens the derail Biden transition, confirmation, early legislation.

A Senate trial (which prob won’t start til Jan. 20) will likely stall confirmations etc. for weeks, per rule experts.

politico.com/newsletters/tr…
you can change the rules on impeachment trials w/ a majority but
Unc’s Michael Gerhardt says: “If it got streamlined further I think some people would begin to question whether it’s a credible trial, and some of those people might be in the U.S. Senate”
the main purpose of continuing the impeachment process after Trump leaves office would be to disqualify him from running for president in 2024 or any federal office in the future.

That requires a separate vote by the Senate BUT only after a conviction with two-thirds majority.
Read 7 tweets
8 Jan
Here's the video of the Capitol police shooting Ashli Babbitt as she and others attempted to break into the Speaker's Lobby (a warning about viewing this)

the clip is from this much longer YouTube account of the entire mob, riot of the Capitol.
Bedlam after the shooting.
"She's dead. She's dead. I saw the light go off in her eyes."
This is when the rioters pushed through more police inside the Capitol chanting "Stop the steal"
someone said: "let's be peaceful" and you can hear someone say "fuck that shit."
Read 4 tweets

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