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11 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
[screams into the abyss]
Sinema concluded her remarks by "urging other senators to contact her if they wanted to discuss the issue further.” And I would love to be a fly on the wall for one of those meetings. Or maybe present at one of those meetings. I could make charts.
"Manchin and Sinema need to let legislation live or die by the majority's will. If they truly want bipartisanship to have its day again, they need to be unafraid to let bills come to final votes, even if they find themselves voting with the minority.”

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Sinema is afraid to be the deciding vote on issues. She’s afraid of losing the cover that the filibuster gives her to skip out taking those votes. And she’s afraid of the Democratic platform.

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Hayes Brown Profile picture
10 Jan
It. Has. Not. Been. Tradition. The. Whole. Time. You. Dink.
The filibuster is a mistake of the rewritten rules, which deleted the rule for “previous question,” a loophole exploited by the Southern slaveholding class and later the Dixiecrats. That is the history of the filibuster.
The idea that the Senate rules were built around — where the esteemed gentlemen of the Senate will just cordially decide to have a majority vote once debate is naturally exhausted — is not anywhere close to reality
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10 Jan
You know how you can register to vote at the DMV? Mitch McConnell fought against that bill in 1992, calling it a “solution in search of a problem.”

He’s saying the exact same thing now about Dem bills making it easier to vote

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From 1992, again on the National Voter Registration Act: "Republicans, who twice in the last year used the threat of a filibuster to block the measure from coming to the floor, say the bill will encourage vote fraud.”

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McConnell DID say a lot of good things about the Voting Rights Act — before the Supreme Court gutted it. This was him in 2004, arguing for making DOJ preclearance permanent instead of needing reauthorization

msnbc.com/opinion/mitch-… Screenshot: "Republican Sens. Bill Frist of Tennessee,
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29 Sep 21
SCREAM.

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TO REPEAT MYSELF: “We should understand this effort as plastering the veneer of technocracy onto her already shallow version of moderation, where aesthetics are more important than policy.”

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When I wrote this I considered the potential that it’d turn out Sinema has PLENTY of specifics and policy ideas! Or that she’d use the technocracy as a cover for caving to leadership’s plans! But no. She still has no idea what she actually wants except “big number get smaller"
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28 Sep 21
New from me: I wrote on the most benignly weird thing that we’ve learned about the Trump era to date — WH staff using the works of Andrew Lloyd Webber to calm down the former president’s rages — and why it makes perfect sense

msnbc.com/opinion/trump-…
Come for the AMAZING art from @chelseastahl, stay for my extremely on-brand discussion of the Trump-ALW overlap

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"Everything is overwrought” in a Webber hit. "If there isn’t a parade of dancing cats following the loosest plot heretofore discovered by man, there’s an entire chandelier crashing on stage, and a legion of exhausted first sopranos strewn in his wake.”

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14 Sep 21
New from me: Kyrsten Sinema, we learned in an Axios article, has a secret weapon in her fight to winnow down Democrats' $3.5 spending plan — spreadsheets

…As you might guess, I was not impressed.

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If you read the article, you wouldn’t get many more details than that.

Sinema doesn’t want Democrats spending too much.

She has spreadsheets tracking that spending.

That’s it.

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So why does this article exist? Simple — to give Sinema the veneer of technocratic competency.

She has SPREADSHEETS. She is collecting DATA.

Which obscures something missing from the article: There’s no discussion of WHAT that data represents.

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3 Sep 21
New from me: one thing that ties together the Republican agenda lately is the sheer creativity on display as rules, laws, and norms are bent, twisted, and invented out of whole cloth in the pursuit of power

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The conservative wing of SCOTUS’s use of the shadow docket? Novel.

The Texas GOP writing a law that makes nobody and everybody responsible for enforcing it? Groundbreaking.

Trumpists taking over precinct officer roles for elections? Visionary.

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Meanwhile, Democrats are, well, conservative in how they think about The Rules. And it’s forcing them to fight with one hand tied behind their backs in the face of an onslaught of inventive chaos from the GOP.

msnbc.com/opinion/texas-… What we’re seeing from Democrats is not only a lack of ima
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