Nate Cohn

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

@JakeMGrumbach @jon_m_rob @jbview @hakeemjefferson @BrendanNyhan @gelliottmorris @mattyglesias @rickhasen this is not the equivalent, for instance, of proposing a $2 trillion dollar package hoping to land at 800bn. this is like proposing $20 trillion--an ask so big that it effectively ends the conversation, with merely a humoring stand alone vote. — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

@JakeMGrumbach @jon_m_rob @jbview @hakeemjefferson @BrendanNyhan @gelliottmorris @mattyglesias @rickhasen and similarly, because none of the drive for this legislation is actually coming from *in* the senate, there will be no one who picks up the effort to try and find a narrower solution — PolitiTweet.org