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RT @hannnahmmarie: Huge shoutout to the "textualism constrains judges" crowd, hope you're having a really great Monday — PolitiTweet.org

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@RevisionPod lmfao — PolitiTweet.org

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@gerrystiene survivorship bias/not so latent eugenic urge — PolitiTweet.org

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or at least a rick and morty script — PolitiTweet.org

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hmm — PolitiTweet.org

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want to write an alt-history in which the rabbit is the real power in the oval office — PolitiTweet.org

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@psmithdad @un_a_valeable this is peak performance for a car. you may not like it, but it’s true. — PolitiTweet.org

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@CRB1079 @FelledMan oh i forgot the rule that said that if something is not immediately feasible you simply should not discuss it — PolitiTweet.org

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@yeselson @JakeAnbinder great book. read it in college and still have my copy, that’s how useful it was — PolitiTweet.org

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@ragepath that's a great metaphor. the thing about even "honest graft" is that it kind of needs to be hypocritical. we have to act as if it isn't there, even if it is. it is the hypocrisy that keeps the forest healthy, so to speak — PolitiTweet.org

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@whstancil right, but to your subsequent point, Roosevelt was constantly selling stuff to the public and the alphabet soup agencies were acting directly on individuals — PolitiTweet.org

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absolutely. the nightmare world predicted by defenders of the filibuster — policymaking will arbitrarily swing back and forth depending on who controls the relevant institutions — is already the case! it just happens by executive or judicial fiat rather than by congressional act. — PolitiTweet.org

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@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" — PolitiTweet.org

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

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RT @un_a_valeable: @jbouie My kingdom for a majoritarian congress that could pass regular order bills... normally and not in some once a ye… — PolitiTweet.org

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@B_Nied if those signs had said "This new road courtesy of President Obama" then it might have moved the needle a little bit — PolitiTweet.org

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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. — PolitiTweet.org

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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. — PolitiTweet.org

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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 — PolitiTweet.org

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

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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 districts — PolitiTweet.org

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what people need to understand is that something is only a political liability if opponents make it a political liability, and vice versa, something that isn't ordinarily a political liability can become one on the same basis — PolitiTweet.org

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@yankeeshead agreed — PolitiTweet.org

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@FelledMan appointed for 18 years with a possible 6 year extension seems like a good blance to me — PolitiTweet.org

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@David69396295 no it wouldn't — PolitiTweet.org

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@omgwtfbrb1min i think people have the right to elect whoever they want to represent them for however long they want them there — PolitiTweet.org

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i'm anti-term limits except for judges. given the amount of power judges hold in our system and the lack of formal accountability, it is unconscionable that one could hold their seat for 30, 40 or even 50 years. — PolitiTweet.org

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the judge is 35 with a lifetime appointment. seems bad. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TylerDinucci seems like a bad system! — PolitiTweet.org

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@mailman0307 yes! — PolitiTweet.org