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    1. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie Apr 18

      b-boy bouiebaisse Retweeted Ezra Klein

      loudly and obnoxiously taking credit for everything was a legitimately smart thing for trump to do and is not all that different from an earlier era where pols plastered their names on everything funded in their districtshttps://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/1516096527604727808 …

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      Ezra KleinVerified account @ezraklein
      There's a lot in here, but I found this story, from @povertyscholar, particularly depressing. Democratic accountability is so difficult in an information environment this poor, and when Congress legislates in ways almost designed to confuse. pic.twitter.com/RFGju2lN2X
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    2. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie Apr 18

      or for that matter, the "built by the WPA under President Roosevelt" placards that you can still find in nearly every town in America

      15 replies 38 retweets 764 likes
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    3. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie Apr 18

      in fairness, i think there is something else happening here besides poor political instincts. congress is largely incapable of legislating in any form other than big omnibus bills, which can't help but obscure the provisions within them

      8 replies 50 retweets 673 likes
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    4. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie Apr 18

      not too long ago there was a piece praising congress' ability to pass small scale things on a bipartisan basis in relative secrecy, but that's obviously not very helpful for establishing who did what for voters.

      2 replies 22 retweets 325 likes
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    5. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie Apr 18

      and the legislative filibuster, of course, means there's almost no point in trying to assemble bipartisan coalitions for discrete pieces of ambitious legislation. like, i think romney's child tax credit could pass with 52 or 53 votes. but there just aren't 60 to end debate.

      3 replies 37 retweets 426 likes
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    6. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie Apr 18

      this little thread is a reminding me that at some point i need to write my "machine politics are good, actually" column

      13 replies 11 retweets 388 likes
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Apr 18
      Replying to @jbouie

      I pursued that line of argument here. I was hoping Irish Joe had some of the old Tammany Hall spirit in him. No such luck.https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-obama-tammany-jobs/ …

      12:05 PM - 18 Apr 2022
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        2. Dag‏ @3fecta Apr 18
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jbouie

          Everything with Robert Byrd's name on it would be scratched out with Manchin's replacing it if Biden had that spirit.

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        3. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie Apr 18
          Replying to @3fecta @HeerJeet

          i think the issue is that Manchin doesn't seem to have that spirit either. he has no sense of what you could call "public graft"

          2 replies 0 retweets 36 likes
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