Senate Democrats to use the same procedural mechanisms Republicans use to pass bad and unpopular legislation to pass popular and urgently needed legislation lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/02/party-…
Correct, and correct
Senate Dems seem to be taking the claims of Senate Republicans who rushed a party-line vote to put a life-tenured justice on the Supreme Court while RBG's body was still warm about the need to bipartisan collaboration with precisely the level of contempt they merit
Meanwhile, I would like to nominate the Daily Beast for a Pulitzer for putting this apparent monument to bad faith behind a paywall, presumably in a Superfund site
Republicans, 2017-2020: "We have 50 votes, suck it libs!"
Republicans, January 3 2021-present: "if we must pass legislation, it should be a bipartisan compromise titled heavily in favor of the minority party."
Politico Playbook: "this seems honorable and principled, to me"
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To state the obvious, the REAL question is how serious the REPUBLICANS are about bipartisanship, and the answer made clear by this feeble counteroffer is "not remotely"
Democrats: win, offer package of policies with broad bipartisan popular support
Republicans: lose, offer 30 cents on the dollar, limiting or stripping out many popular provisions
Beltway media: why don't Democrats believe in compromise?
This combination of incredulity and contempt for the idea that the preferences of mere *voters* could be a meaningful consideration is pretty much the definitive manifestation of Beltway Pundit Brain lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/02/beltwa…
A team that is already a stars-and-scrubs roster trading 2 first rounders for an aging QB who is a probably modest upgrade if healthy, but probably won't be healthy. Even my inherent Seahawks fan pessimism can't make this seem rational for the Rams
The Goff contract was a classic dumb Ryan Howard premature extension at top-of-the-market prices extension, and I can understand why they were anxious to dump it, but this just compounds the problem
The extraordinary amount of cap and draft capital the Rams have pissed away to end up with a decent, injured 33-year-old QB is an object lesson in the dangers of One Indispensable QB logic
It is obvious why running the 2009 relief playbook again is attractive to marginal Republican senators. It is equally obvious why Democrats must reject this out of hand. Fulfilling promises is more important than "bipartisanship."
The ideas in the American rescue plan have broad, bipartisan popularity; that Republican legislators won't vote for them is not the Democrats' problem
"the quarterback hasn't spoken to new Texans general manager Nick Caserio or executive Jack Easterby" LOL espn.com/nfl/story/_/id…
Easterby going from Belichick's chaplain/cribbage partner to head of football ops in Houston, and surviving despite massive incompetence including alienating a HoF-caliber QB, is a truly great tale of This Meritocracy of Ours si.com/nfl/2021/01/16…
The extent to which coverage of the 2016 election was shaped by powerful editors and reporters somewhere on the misogynist-to-outright-sexual-predator continuum is a problem that has not gotten nearly enough attention, for reasons that are self-evident lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/01/someti…
While her account of working for James Bennet is devastating, we shouldn't overlook the shade Barnett throws at Jeffrey Goldberg jenzerb.medium.com/i-left-my-care…
Bennet's last 17 issues of the Atlantic featured more cover stories written by white guys who (like Bennet) went to Yale in the 80s (4) than women (3) thecut.com/2019/06/jeffre…
And of course it was Greenwald who first amplified the "offending" tweet, because be can't fathom anyone having a sense of relief about the candidate he preferred being defeated
It wasn't even a pro-Biden tweet, it was a pro-peaceful transition of power tweet! How can you possibly cave to this bad faith bullshit