Trying to adapt. Also Washington Post deputy editorial page editor and columnist.
Feb 19, 2022 • 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.”
Jan 7, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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.
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 ...
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.”
Dec 17, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
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-…
Sep 24, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Another moderate Democratic House freshman just came out for impeachment: Rep Lizzie Fletcher of Texas.
Here's her statement:
