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24 Sep, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Excellent assessment of the intellectual emptiness of today's centrism as embodied by Manchin, Sinema, @JoshGottheimer etc.

Previous centrists advocated policies they thought would fend off the left and right both. Today's centrist advocate nothing. nytimes.com/2021/09/22/opi…
That's why neither Sinema nor Manchin will tell you what they want in this reconciliation bill. Because they have no idea. They want nothing, but don't know how to say that. So they say nothing and "raise concerns."
Today's centrists are actually just conservative guardians of the status quo, which differs from the previous generation of centrists during the New Deal.
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19 Sep
Credit to the NYT for prominently noting that Joe Manchin makes half a million a year in income from the coal industry
And credit to @DRBoguslaw for injecting that fact into the media bloodstream with this investigation of his background theintercept.com/2021/09/03/joe…
Would have been appropriate of the Times to credit the previous reporting, but then they wouldn’t be the New York Times if they did. At least this is progress.
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13 Sep
Something extremely important went down at the House Education and Labor Committee on Friday, when a group of progressives teamed up with centrists in vulnerable districts to threaten to take down their portion of the reconciliation bill. Here's what happened /1
The bill included means-tested subsidies for child care that could be claimed only by people making up to 150% of the median area income. Typical Dem crap. Progressives, as they do, argued it should be universal. But this time they had two things they didn't have before.
First, they had big numbers, and were willing to vote as a bloc. But second, frontline Democrats on the committee *also* wanted the program to be universal. They collectively lobbied Pelosi and Chair Bobby Scott, and threatened to take it down without it.
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20 Aug
You’re seeing vocal support for Biden’s decision to withdraw from @IlhanMN and @RepBarbaraLee but the rest of House Democrats, Squad included, have not really been loudly out there, even as the public is rallying behind Biden’s decision
Calling to end a war is easy. Ask Trump.

Actually ending one in the face of massive elite hostility is hard.
Absolute cowardice from Trump. Don't be like Trump. New statement from this guy: Image
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19 Aug
How solid are the 8 Dems lined up with @JoshGottheimer in his face off with Pelosi? Let's look at @Carolyn4GA7 -- Carolyn Bourdeaux -- one of his signatories.

Her top legislative priority, and the key to her re-election, is Raphael Warnock's Medicaid expansion measure /1
The bill will send millions to Georgia and other states who refused the Medicaid expansion, and Bourdeaux is a lead sponsor: georgiarecorder.com/2021/07/21/bou…
She also recently said this:
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3 Aug
Later the guy turned his camera on me and asked why I sheepdog people into the Democratic Party or some such
The problem with building your entire persona/brand/politics around the idea that nothing good can ever happen is that if something decent happens, u feel compelled to diminish it. And soon u actively try to stop good things from happening just to prove your own cynicism correct
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18 Jul
As the socialist mayor of Burlington he talked Vermont’s lefty third party world into participating in the 1988 Democratic primary caucuses in order to elect Jesse Jackson. Jackson won VT and nearly won the nomination. Pragmatism is nothing new for Bernie.
All you have to do is log onto twitter to find out how much hell somebody on the left takes for suggesting working within the two party system.
They call it “sheepdogging” on here.
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