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Ira Goldman 🦆🦆🦆 Profile picture
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Jun 2 • 4 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Majority Leader Howard Baker (R-TN) and Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC) have a moment on the Senate floor.

Can you tell what was happening?

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Here's a hint: This is the very next line in the Record... Image
Another hint: After that line, these are the next two lines in the Record... Image
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Ira Goldman 🦆🦆🦆 Profile picture
Jun 2
In the end, Biden was absolutely going to have to give McCarthy some things… in return for other things. Turns out, one of those things he gave McCarthy was just showing up to negotiate. And based on the overall deal, Biden got something in return. Yes, for just showing up.

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"Extortion" is the coin of the realm in Congress-Exec Branch . Were the stakes here unusually large? Yes. Were the threats from House Repubs nuts? Yes. But such "extortion" is not going away, and to think Biden could have made it go away is, in its own way, also nuts.

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Artist's rendering of debt-limit gun to Biden's head.
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Jun 2
.@ringwiss About senators who want a bill to go directly to the Calendar (vs being referred to a cmte):

Why, after asking for first reading, do they immediately ask for second reading & then object to their request, vs just waiting for the next day? The answer may be here… Image
Some notes:
Based on my "sense" of these things, and from reading the Byrd-assisted cleanup of that Baker & Helms clown show, and from reading chunks of this from 1957, I think the immediate request for second reading + objection may be defensive.
THESIS: If Sen1 on Day 1 asks for first reading, planning to just wait for the next day to ask for second reading & then object to that so it would go to the Calendar, that *might* leave an opening for Sen2 on Day 1 to ask for second reading & referral to a cmte. 🤔
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May 31
B/c this is about how Ron DeSantis defines himself as governor & now as a candidate for president, and b/c for him this is a boilerplate line, it's > noteworthy he didn't say "I will be able to… leave woke _policies_ on the dustbin of history," but rather "woke _ideology_".

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A candidate running for president on a promise to end an "ideology" is running in the wrong country. And by phrasing it as he does, DeSantis reinforces what we've already come to see about his vision of gov't – setting not just policies, but also how everyone should think.

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"Go to the place where you belong from now on, the dustbin of history!'' – Leon Trotsky

''The march of freedom and democracy… will leave Marxist Leninism on the ash heap of history." – Ronald Reagan

And somehow DeSantis chose Trotsky's "dustbin" over Reagan's "ash heap".

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May 31
15+ minutes into this 15-minute vote on the debt-limit rule and look at how many members haven't yet voted...

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26+ minutes in... Where's the cavalry? ImageImage
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May 17
Some takes re expelling George Santos.
1) Yes, he should be expelled.
2) The vote should come _after_ the House receives a report from the Ethics Cmte; iow, not as an insta-vote on a question of privilege.
3) Even with bribery cases, the House has waited for a cmte report…

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4) FUN FACT: Apart from whether he should be expelled (again, he should), the timing of Santos' departure is (potentially) a BFD to both Republicans and Democrats – specifically b/c of (A) the impending vote(s) on a debt limit deal, and (B) math...

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IOW, Dems don't just want to expel Santos; they'd like to expel him NOW vs 2+ weeks from now.

If Dems could do it NOW, that would make it harder for McCarthy to pass a debt-limit deal w/ Repub votes only… and if he needed Dem votes to pass it, he'd have to make it less RW.

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May 9
If that's how Crow feels, he better get into court quick seeking to stop Treasury from providing Wyden his tax returns, b/c unlike when Manchin was there, Treasury can provide returns in response to a request under 26 USC 6103 w/o prior notice to the targeted taxpayer – ie, Crow. Image
While it's not uncommon for me to disagree with Sen @RonWyden on issues, I consider him one of the Senate's best tacticians, and so in light of the reply from Harlan Crow's lawyer, I'd guess his @SenateFinance staff now (if not already 2 weeks ago) has a 6103 request in process. ImageImageImageImage
Drat! I knew I'd do that some day. Apologies to Senator Manchin. I meant when Steve *Mnuchin* was there at Treasury.

h/t @Michaelander45
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