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14 Apr, 8 tweets, 3 min read

https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1382355459772928009

meanwhile West Virginia has an estimated $265 million gap in capital expenditures for schools infrastructurereportcard.org/state-item/wes…

https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1382355459772928009

also home health care is one of the fastest growing industries in the state herald-dispatch.com/news/home-heal…

anyway i want republicans to continue opposing this infrastructure package with stuff like “Biden wants to spend hundreds of billions on your elderly parents” and “Biden wants to spend tens of billions on rehabbing your neighborhood schools”

https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1382357703146811392

also the basic problem “why won’t Biden compromise?!?” republicans have is that no one believes they could deliver enough of their colleagues to break a filibuster, so why waste time for a radically smaller package of narrow policies

https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1382357703146811392

https://twitter.com/brothertona/status/1382372732483084290

i have been thinking about Manchin and how part of my frustration is that he is not nearly venal enough on behalf of his state. but then i remember that the last senator to openly do this kind of thing, Ben Nelson, got utterly stomped for it.

https://twitter.com/brothertona/status/1382372732483084290

for those of you who don’t remember the “cornhusker kickback” apnews.com/article/e0da55…

of course, this was silly at the time and even sillier now. buying off a critical vote with pork is just politics, and we would be in better shape if more members thought in terms of “what can i get for the people of my state/district in exchange for my vote”

better believe that if i were in congress and ended up being the pivotal vote for something, i would use that leverage to get a fancy new library or recreational center or some shit.

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https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1382470893180452864

crank, my sincere advice is you should lay out the thrust of your argument within your 1st 200 words & that throat-clearing for the length of a column before getting to your point — which even then is unclear — is a recipe for being misunderstood as often as you seem to be.

https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1382470893180452864

if an accurate reading of your lede depends on connecting the clause “for the purpose of” to a sentence roughly 500 words down the page, then there is a structural problem in the writing

https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1382472852759265282

If I were your editor Crank, I would have suggested you write something like: “Democrats believe the Georgia law is a gambit to help the GOP win elections by undermining fair elections, but it is their coordination of an unaccountable corporate response that is anti-democratic.”

https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1382472852759265282

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14 Apr

https://twitter.com/magi_jay/status/1382431644569702403

what’s fun about “the 3/5ths compromise was actually antislavery” is that it is an easy way to see if the person actually knows anything about the founding period

https://twitter.com/magi_jay/status/1382431644569702403

i actually wrote a little about three-fifths clause last year. the short story is that the pro-slavery/anti-slavery debate ignores the context of the convention nytimes.com/2020/08/07/opi…

the argument over whether the three-fifths compromise was antislavery misses the extent to which enslaved people were going to be “represented” one way or the other and the debate over the extent of that representation wasn’t really about the morality of slavery.

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