Menendez is comically corrupt even by American standards and the party could have ditched him years agohttps://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1450510670181634061 …
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what happened was Menendez took $600,000 in bribes to help a crooked doctor defraud Medicare. he almost got convicted too, which the Supreme Court has made near impossiblehttps://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16/politics/bob-menendez-trial/index.html …
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as somebody was saying the real barrier to "popularism" here is the corrupt and/or stupid Dem establishment. Schumer personally recruited Sinema (then the most conservative Dem in the House). the whole party circled the wagons around Menendez
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Replying to @ryanlcooper
It is truly amazing how much time we've wasted talking about David Shor when this -- *THIS* -- is the much bigger political problem.
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This story also matters because it indicates that the McCain framing might be all wrong. Maybe Sinema isn't trying to be a maverick so much as she's learning lessons from right-wing Democrat obstructionists.
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that's exactly right. I've been uncomfortable with the rhetoric that pathologizes Sinema since she's merely the latest (albeit very colorful) iteration of a familiar type.
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