You’re kidding right? You think a speech changes McConnell’s mind?
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Replying to @TVietor08 @JesseCharlesLee
idk but it’s a first step toward having a real fight about it, alerting the public to the stakes, creating pressure on Grassley to break w McConnell, and prompting reporters to keep asking every candidate across the nation what ought to be done.
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Anyway I don’t mean to have a flame war with you all. I thought this was generally what the record showed, e.g. on the Russia response https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/comey-book-claims-president-trump-sought-loyalty-mafia/story?id=54420635 …pic.twitter.com/DTLuXwsGkm
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Replying to @nycsouthpaw @JesseCharlesLee
I am very open to the idea that Russia pushback could’ve been done differently. But Mitch fucked him on Garland.
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Replying to @TVietor08 @JesseCharlesLee
No doubt. In retrospect, don’t you wish Obama fucked back?
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I just asked this EXACT question of
@danpfeiffer at City Arts & Lectures & got the same answer (although TBF Pfeiffer wasn’t in the WH then). But there must have something more that could’ve been done to raise pressure on McConnell.1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes -
Replying to @wendythurm @nycsouthpaw and
We had extremely intense pressure on Rs that were actually up, which was only way to pressure McConnell. But ironically/ disgustingly, it was just too far away from the election, and they knew it. They also hedged that if Trump collapsed, SCOTUS might save base turnout. Leverage?
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Replying to @JesseCharlesLee @nycsouthpaw and
I wasn’t there. You were. But to an astute political observer & activist, I saw no pushback. None.
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Replying to @wendythurm @nycsouthpaw and
Just don’t know how to argue with that. Literally countless speeches, interviews, local pitches, local interviews, Garland meetings w/ Sens, leaks of refusals to meet, no-fingerprints stories, political pitches, validator opeds, TV TPs, social media. That’s just the public stuff.
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Replying to @JesseCharlesLee
And it didn’t penetrate to progressive political circles where I am in California. I’m a former lawyer. I vote based on SCOTUS nominees but I didn’t hear anyone around me talking about it.
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FWIW, even while in the process of moving between continents, and then in the SF tech bubble, I heard a fair bit of grumbling about it. Mixed with feelings of helplessness.
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