Share this page!

Karen Tumulty Profile picture
Twitter logo
Feb 19 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Dr. Strangelove just started on @tcm. You’re welcome.
“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here. This is the War Room.”
“Our source was The New York Times.”
“I do not avoid them, Mandrake. But I do deny them my essence.”

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Karen Tumulty

Karen Tumulty Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @ktumulty

Karen Tumulty Profile picture
Jan 7, 2021
Belated New Year's resolution for 2021: If any cable network puts her under contract as a political commentator after her disgraceful performance in a job where taxpayers pay her salary, I resolve to never watch it again.
I've written before about why the briefing is important: washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-ask…
"The daily briefing, whatever its flaws, provided a ritualized means of holding power accountable."
Read 6 tweets
Karen Tumulty Profile picture
Jan 6, 2021
Please indulge (or ignore) a thread: I first got to DC as a Capitol Hill reporter for the LA Times back in the 1980s, before a bomb went off near the Senate Chamber. I fell in love with the Capitol. Back then, no one even needed to wear credentials around their necks ...
Tourists would wander the place pretty much with no restrictions. My single favorite spot is the anteroom of what is now @senatemajldr office, which is the only place in DC that has been part of all 3 branches of govt at one point ...
It was where the Supreme Court once used to change into their robes and (am I right here?) the VP's office. The fireplace is where the British are said to have set Thomas Jefferson's personal library on fire to burn down the Capitol in 1814...
Read 7 tweets
Karen Tumulty Profile picture
Sep 6, 2020
What is alleged here -- "straw" donations -- is not a minor violation. Many people have faced prison for this. Get ready for a thread. washingtonpost.com/investigations…
nytimes.com/2014/04/18/nyr…
washingtonpost.com/archive/politi…
Read 8 tweets
Karen Tumulty Profile picture
Jun 1, 2020
LBJ on the riots of 68: “What did you expect? I don’t know why we’re surprised. When you put your foot on a man’s neck and hold him down for 300 years, and then you let him up, what’s he going to do? He’s going to knock your block off.”
More LBJ after the assassination of MLK: “If I were a kid in Harlem, I know what I’d be thinking right now: I’d be thinking that the whites have declared open season on my people, and they’re going to pick us off one by one unless I get a gun and pick them off first.”
And: “We need something positive to carry to the people. Otherwise we’ll be caught with nothing. And the people just won’t behave in a vacuum.”
Read 4 tweets
Karen Tumulty Profile picture
Dec 17, 2019
Trying to remember: When was the last time that anything the House Rules Committee did merited any coverage at all, much less the live broadcast of one of its markups on all three cable news networks?
The word "powerful" is always attached to the Rules Committee. It does indeed have a lot of power, but it does not exercise it independently. Not since the 1970s has it operated as anything other than a tool of the Speaker. Here's how it evolved: republicans-rules.house.gov/history-rules-…
During the civil rights movement, the Rules Committee was an independent power base, from which southern chairmen kept anti-discrimination bottled up in the 1950s and early 1960s: archives.gov/exhibits/treas…
Read 7 tweets
Karen Tumulty Profile picture
Sep 24, 2019
Another moderate Democratic House freshman just came out for impeachment: Rep Lizzie Fletcher of Texas.
Here's her statement:
Key sentence (as @LisaDNews notes) leaves some wiggle room: "The House of Representatives should act swiftly to investigate and should be prepared to use the remedy exclusively in its power: impeachment.”
Read 4 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Like this author's thread?

Get emails when @ktumulty has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @ktumulty!

Read all threads by @ktumulty

:(