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Steven Dennis

@StevenTDennis

28 Jun

How Congressional negotiations sometimes work

January-April: Proposals

May-July: Hostage-taking

August: Recess

September-November: More hostages, CRs

Early December: Hostages released in massive year-end budget deal just in time for Christmas recess

Also May-November: Complaints about all of the hostage-taking from whomever wants the hostage released.

Last year, the biggest hostage was COVID relief. For much of the year, McConnell held it hostage to his demand for a legal liability waiver Dems oppose; Dems held hostage over that and desire for a bigger package.

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Steven Dennis

@StevenTDennis

27 Jun

Found: Affordable housing.

5BRs, 2BAs, 2.5K square feet, pool, Kentucky

$139.9K
zillow.com/homedetails/20…

Very cute 3BR, 3BA, 2,300 sf house with attractive floors. $175K?

New York
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Estimated monthly payment <$600. A real house. Pennsylvania. zillow.com/homedetails/20…

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Steven Dennis

@StevenTDennis

26 Jun

“Castrate, kill, remove voting rights,” the soon-to-be Georgia sheriff's deputy wrote in a text found by the FBI. “The only problem is you can’t expect to get them all that way.”

Very disturbing report from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
ajc.com/news/castrate-…

"I’m going to charge them with whatever felonies I can to take away their ability to vote," read one text. One text described beating up a Black person as "stress relief." (!)

The deputy and ex-Marine was found with an arsenal of weapons, pled guilty to a weapons charge and will be sentenced in August, AJC reports.

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Steven Dennis

@StevenTDennis

26 Jun

First up on #FridayNightZillow:

8BRs, 7BAs, 12K square feet mansion, Minneapolis, $995K. It has a catch... zillow.com/homedetails/19…

Large Kentucky estate on 16 acres. $1.15M #FridayNightZillow zillow.com/homedetails/12…?

Quirky Victorian mansion with some unfortunate wallpapering decisions: 8BRs, 9BAs, 11K square feet for just $785K? zillow.com/homedetails/70…

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Steven Dennis

@StevenTDennis

25 Jun

You'd have to be deaf not to have known Democrats were going to seek a reconciliation package too.

I've been speaking to Republican and Democratic senators on this very point. Rs oppose the reconciliation package, but they weren't pretending it doesn't exist. It was part of the deal from the first Biden-Capito & Co meeting that Ds/Biden would pursue a follow-on package.

Central tension here is Rs want to kill and/or shrink the reconciliation package, & Ds/WH have been trying to make it essential. The new part was Biden explicitly saying no signing this package w/o reconciliation too. But a little redundant after Pelosi said she'd hold the bill.

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