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27 Jul, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Cheney just echoed Schiff, “we must issue and enforce subpoenas promptly.” Suggests a process more like the impeachment inquiry than the rest of ‘19/20 oversight. And Schiff implied criminal contempt, with DOJ engaged, will be the will be the tool they use to enforce subpoenas.
This is good news, also just the standard the committee *should* be held to.
For all the “gift to Kevin McCarthy” reporters out there: don’t you think it’s interesting that Liz Cheney accused her own party of engaging in a coverup from the dais today? I thought coverups made for juicy stories and were bad news for the perpetrators?
Segment focuses on whether Trump will try to block voluntary testimony of former DOJ officials in court, but if the committee is aggressive with subpoenas and contempt citations and DOJ or (knock on wood) Congress works aggressively to enforce them, don’t see how it’ll matter.
Interesting reading on the legal question, but as a practical matter, seems like it’ll come down to whether the officials decide to testify (as they did over Trump objections in impeachment 1.0) perhaps with the threat of sanctions hanging over them. lawfareblog.com/can-former-pre…

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23 Jul
Democrats accept moderation as key to political success —> Demonstrating moderation is hard, but “bipartisanship” is empirical —> Dems equate moderation with bipartisanship —> Six months lost, hundreds of billions conceded, democracy protection crowded out mailchi.mp/crooked.com/bi…
In the Senate, Republicans delayed, reneged, and ultimately filibustered debate on their own deal; and the upshot for Dems is no guarantee that GOP votes will materialize, and a new GOP threat to withhold all support on the debt limit. crooked.us19.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=88…
House Dems conceded to a toothless bipartisan 1/6 commission, Republicans reneged, Dems created a 1/6 committee, appointed Cheney to it, but when Pelosi drew the line at pro-insurrection members, the media verdict was: both sides to blame! Six months of investigative time lost.
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17 Jul
People still underrate the “undermine Biden” intent here, but perhaps it will become clear if/when the same figures who said COVID was no big deal (but also a devious Chinese plot) last year start deriding ‘Biden’s failed Covid response’ or whatever.
And we’re live!
After all these years there’s still a tic in liberal punditry to be seen ascribing this kind of antisocial behavior to something other than malice, when it’s obviously just rolling coal applied to everything. Affective high-mindedness at the expense of clear thinking.
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16 Jul
Democrats seemingly *have* learned lessons from the past. But they aren’t applying those lessons consistently. And over the next few weeks, their willingness or unwillingness to apply them will shape the country for years and years to come. mailchi.mp/crooked.com/bi…
Their approach to Biden’s economic agenda feels eerily reminiscent of the ACA process in 2009, but there are important differences which make it seem likely the story will end on a happier note. crooked.us19.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=88… Image
Their approach to democracy reform is more wanting, but the challenges are different, and a ton of the flack they take stems from treating them as basically the same. I’m not optimistic, but I see a method here. ImageImage
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30 Jun
I’m gonna delete this thread because Alex deleted the underlying tweet. But there are two issues here.
One, which the White House is pushing back on very hard, that it agreed to scrap the Jobs Plan measures that aren’t included in the bipartisan deal. (That never made sense.)

Two, that it won’t try to recover the spending *topline* it has conceded in negotiations.
Based on what Manchin has said in recent days, that seems very likely true. And it’s a TON of spending to concede. But if it’s not actually a handshake deal with the GOP negotiators, then it’s a story about internal Dem politics, not about GOP demands per se.
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29 Jun
Not to pick on this one piece, but it’s a good example of how Republican bad faith has become the background assumption in so much journalism, rather than a set of behaviors that can and should be questioned. Image
Forgot the link: politico.com/news/2021/06/2…
Like, Republicans could simply not try to do a coverup for partisan gain!
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24 Jun
This seems correct, RE the critical race theory propaganda blitz, and should be a reminder that the whole thing is a concoction of the right, built by nutpicking and dissembling about random incidents that have no attachment to national partisan politics.
The asymmetry in how the parties prosecute culture wars reminds me of how this crazy story from almost three years ago just kinda went poof. politico.com/story/2019/08/…
The elite right had taken to blending "Nietzschean philosophy with critiques of contemporary Western society, denigrating homosexuality, Judiasm, Islam, feminism," fixating on "population genetics," and an "affinity for Slavic and northern European cultures." I.e. Nazism.
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