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    1. Josh Kraushaar‏Verified account @HotlineJosh 3 Oct 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank @PatrickRuffini

      So that means Republicans could lose the ability to block a progressive agenda, no small cost.

      15 replies 1 retweet 30 likes
    2. Megan McArdle‏Verified account @asymmetricinfo 3 Oct 2020
      Replying to @HotlineJosh @baseballcrank @PatrickRuffini

      Also, raises the specter that the court gets packed and you enjoy your new justice for, like three weeks before she's joined by four new very young and impeccably left-wing colleagues.

      32 replies 3 retweets 51 likes
    3. Brian Rosenwald‏ @brianros1 3 Oct 2020
      Replying to @asymmetricinfo @HotlineJosh and

      Fwiw, this assumes that Democrats get a large enough majority to end the filibuster. That’s probably not 51-52 senators. And even if they do, I think Court packing wouldn’t come until after a bad SCOTUS decision, presumably in June.

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    4. Megan McArdle‏Verified account @asymmetricinfo 3 Oct 2020
      Replying to @brianros1 @HotlineJosh and

      I dunno ... suspect this is going to radicalize Dems the way Kavanaugh radicalized GOP.

      3 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    5. Brian Rosenwald‏ @brianros1 3 Oct 2020
      Replying to @asymmetricinfo @HotlineJosh and

      Don’t get me wrong, I’m someone who opposed Court packing until the GOP pulled this ACB stuff. So it’s definitely possible. But still hard for me to envision getting all of their moderates, especially given that a majority will involve new moderates + Sinema + Manchin.

      4 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
    6. Josh Kraushaar‏Verified account @HotlineJosh 3 Oct 2020
      Replying to @brianros1 @asymmetricinfo and

      Yeah, I agree w Brian. It’s all power politics. Huge difference between 50 and 53 Senate seats. Why the supposed “marginal costs” aren’t so marginal...

      4 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    7. Megan McArdle‏Verified account @asymmetricinfo 3 Oct 2020
      Replying to @HotlineJosh @brianros1 and

      I thought they couldn't pass Obamacare when it was clearly electoral suicide ...

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    8. Brian Rosenwald‏ @brianros1 3 Oct 2020
      Replying to @asymmetricinfo @HotlineJosh and

      Slightly different situation. They had 60 then. They got 50. Last time they went nuclear, they lost what 2-3 Democrats? I’m not saying the vast majority won’t vote for it. But to get the entire caucus to vote for it, is a big ask.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    9. Megan McArdle‏Verified account @asymmetricinfo 3 Oct 2020
      Replying to @brianros1 @HotlineJosh and

      Like I say, maybe I'm wrong--I just feel like maybe if moderates don't care about court packing that much, and your base really, really does, you can get there.

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    10. Megan McArdle‏Verified account @asymmetricinfo 3 Oct 2020
      Replying to @asymmetricinfo @brianros1 and

      And 2010 cured me of saying that Democrats wouldn't do something merely because it was obviously going to cost them their majority.

      2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 3 Oct 2020
      Replying to @asymmetricinfo @brianros1 and

      The reason the Democrats were fools to pass Obamacare in 2010 is that they could have kept at healthcare much more incrementally with a lot less political blowback. Whereas nothing in SCOTUS is incremental. It's taken 47 years to get to this point. It could take another 47.

      12:27 PM - 3 Oct 2020
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        2. Brian Rosenwald‏ @brianros1 3 Oct 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank @asymmetricinfo and

          Flip side: it took Democrats a century to get the votes to do healthcare.

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 3 Oct 2020
          Replying to @brianros1 @asymmetricinfo and

          But did it? Medicare, Medicaid, probably a dozen smaller steps since then. They even backed the GOP into doing Part D under unified R control. If they'd done standalone Medicaid expansion, more states would likely have gone along.

          2 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
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        1. John Ho‏ @jsho12 3 Oct 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank @asymmetricinfo and

          Lol. Cool story.

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