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27 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Cory Bliss, who ran Pat Roberts' 2014 campaign, quoted here: “If you want to spend all your time going on Fox and be[ing] an asshole, there’s never been a better time to serve.“
Bliss continues: “But if you want to spend all your time being thoughtful and getting shit done, there’s never been a worse time to serve.”
Both Blunt and Moran, who are generally known for being thoughtful and getting stuff done but are also up in 2022, voted to table Trump's impeachment today. kansascity.com/news/politics-…
.@nationaljournal identifies Bliss as a longtime Portman adviser. But Kansans will remember him as the guy who national Republicans brought in when Roberts was struggling in 2014. He was a BU grad and Philadelphia Eagles fan who was more fiery than me. kansas.com/news/politics-…
Before that vote, I had actually just written a story looking at how Blunt and Moran still hoped to get things done in the 50-50 Senate... Maybe it aged poorly quickly, but I still think it captures the tension @HotlineJosh is getting at in his piece. kansascity.com/news/politics-…

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26 Jan
Hawley in April of 2017: I am working very hard at the job people elected me to do. It is far too early to be thinking about any future election with so much pressing work to do.” He formed an exploratory cmte in August of 2017 and announced in October stltoday.com/news/local/gov…
In other words, maybe a story about a politician saying they're not running for X position doesn't warrant siren symbols when it's almost four years out. All due respect to the good people at @businessinsider. Some of us have just been thru a round of this before.
And I wrote some of those will he/won't he stories in 2017. I often reflect on how I should have been more skeptical of the reluctant politician storyline kansascity.com/news/politics-…
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26 Jan
I mentioned on here the other week that before the Capitol riot I was working on a story about what the loss of chairmanships would mean for KC. This is that story. First spoke to @RoyBlunt and @JerryMoran's staffs about it that morning. kansascity.com/news/politics-…
That morning feels like a different universe. Story was conceived after the GA runoff results, but the Capitol attack has given new emphasis on the importance of cross-aisle cooperation.
With that in mind, here's a @RoyBlunt story that didn't make into this story. But which I find pretty interesting. Blunt was one of the people pushing for Congress to resume voting that night after the riot.
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26 Jan
ICYMI former Sen. John Danforth, who mentored Hawley, continues his media penance tour where he voices regret for his role in clearing Hawley's path to the Senate msnbc.com/the-last-word/…
Danforth has previously spoken about this to @tonymess stltoday.com/news/local/col… And me kansascity.com/news/politics-…
The cracks in this relationship had started to show in late 2018 when Hawley was touring the state with Trump. Danforth, who was a Trump critics, at the time chalked it up to political expediency on Hawley's part and still maintained that Hawley would be an excellent senator.
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12 Jan
Hey @MattLaslo, looks Hawley found someone whose questions he was willing to take this week.
.@HawleyMO's team has repeatedly ignored requests for comment since Wednesday as his political mentor and donors disavow him and his colleagues call for his resignation. But he's happy to go on Tucker.
Tucker's analysis that publishers rather than lawmakers are the guardians of the First Amendment also may set some First Amendment lawyers' heads to spin. Publishers are protected by the First Amendment. It doesn't require them to publish a senator's words.
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12 Jan
My one reflection on the Bill Belichick news: The man who beat him in Super Bowl LII lost his job today.
Not excusing the Eagles' post-Super Bowl decline, but I'm one of a handful of Eagles fans who is thankful enough for 2017/2018 that I still like Doug as a dude.
The fact that I spent a couple years living on the West Coast and then the Midwest probably softened me a bit compared to most Philadelphians.
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.@GovParsonMO (R) was asked about the widespread calls for one of the state's two senators to resign. He changed the subject back to his inauguration: “This is a special day for me and for my family. It’s a special day for our state" kansascity.com/news/politics-… #moleg
This is a day after "Resign Hawley" was written in the street in St. Louis.
This is giving me flashbacks to when Brownback’s staff told me I ruined his second Inauguration Day in 2015 by asking about the federal probe of his lieutenant governor (never resulted in charges). @APjdhanna ruined Kansas Day a few days later by doing the same thing.
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