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political reporter, @NBCNews Digital | co-author, NYT bestsellers “Shattered” and “HRC” | Nats fan | Terp | @northwesternu teacher | jon.allen@nbcuni.com

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    Jonathan Allen‏Verified account @jonallendc Oct 6

    Jonathan Allen Retweeted Robert Costa

    In the time I have covered Congress, it has only gone in one direction: down. It has ceded warmaking and budgeting power to the presidency, enhanced ideological polarization on the court, become ever-more like a two-party parliamentary system and rejected civility at every turn.https://twitter.com/costareports/status/1048647996269907969 …

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    Sen. Flake, heading into chamber, tells me the Senate has “hit bottom.” I ask why so many lawmakers keep using that specific term. He shrugs and grimaces. “Because it feels like we are at the bottom.”
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      1. Jonathan Allen‏Verified account @jonallendc Oct 6

        It is an institution that has been rotting for decades, and its members have proved themselves time and again incapable of leading. The ugliness of this fight is but another symptom or sign of the desiccation of a once-verdant and lively body.

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      1. Ken Mehlman‏ @MehlmanKen Oct 6
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        This was also the point @SenSasse made in the #KavanaughHearings. One of the reasons for the polarization is that Congress has surrendered so many responsibilities- to courts, agencies, the executive branch.

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      1.  ❌Win Smith ❌‏ @thoughthooligan Oct 7
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         ❌Win Smith ❌ Retweeted Jonathan Allen

        And are you are too conditioned to wonder, even for a moment, if the 17th Amendment was ever a good idea?https://twitter.com/jonallendc/status/1048719260258897920?s=21 …

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        Jonathan AllenVerified account @jonallendc
        In the time I have covered Congress, it has only gone in one direction: down. It has ceded warmaking and budgeting power to the presidency, enhanced ideological polarization on the court, become ever-more like a two-party parliamentary system and rejected civility at every turn. https://twitter.com/costareports/status/1048647996269907969 …
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      2. Tina Pepe‏ @tina_pepe Oct 6
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        Does @SenJeffFlake @SenFlakeStaff realize he is one of the characters to have brought the US Senate to the terrible pits? He is one of the despicable old white men in America. He goes down in infamy.

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      3.  ❌Win Smith ❌‏ @thoughthooligan Oct 7
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        Why does your kind hate whites so intensely?

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      1. spintested‏ @spintested Oct 6
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        The GOP plays for keeps & I've yet to see Dems get it. They wring their hands, "can't believe it" & when Dems have the chance to do what the GOP does (ram through whatever they want), Dems hold back. Each party plays their part in protecting institutional corruption.

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