Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

RT @newrepublic: This is what @MrWalterShapiro argued earlier this week: "Calling witnesses in the Senate is the best way that the trial ca… — PolitiTweet.org

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@MilliganSusan Van der Veen does come from the rural parts of Philadelphia, I'm sure. The Philadelphia neighborhoods where whittling is a major leisure-time activity. — PolitiTweet.org

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"Holy cow. That's really a great question." Then "Jiminy Crickets." The Trump lawyer sounds like the reincarnation of the late Yankee broadcaster Phil Rizzuto. — PolitiTweet.org

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This exchange and the equally pathetic response to the Collins/Murkowski question is as close as Republicans will get to a permission slip to vote to convict. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TimothyNoah1 Great dialogue. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JRubinBlogger And Murkowski and Collins asked the Trump lawyers to be "as specific as possible." — PolitiTweet.org

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This may actually be the true low point of the Trump defense. — PolitiTweet.org

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And they get the absolutely worse answer. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Laurie_Garrett @RuthMarcus That was about four years and one Charles Dickens novel later. — PolitiTweet.org

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@amywilentz I was trying to make a narrow point, which is hard on Twitter. Historians agree that the Bastille was stormed to get gunpowder to protect the King from his purported enemies. So, by that standard, it doesn't fit Castor's parched definition of insurrection. — PolitiTweet.org

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@fordm It was 74 million Trump voters. — PolitiTweet.org

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In a terrific column, @Peggynoonannyc writes of the Republican senators: "History will see 1/6 for what it was. Those who acquit are voting for a lie. Conviction would be an act of self-respect and of reverence for the place where fortune has placed them." https://t.co/g14BkVukXZ — PolitiTweet.org

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@ProfDaveAndress I look forward to reading your book. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ProfDaveAndress Glad you realize that we're about 90 percent in agreement. And you will probably also agree that I was limited in my arsenal of examples from the French Revolution that would be comprehensible to American non-historians. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ProfDaveAndress I think we are arguing over Castor and not the storming of the Bastille. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ProfDaveAndress I don't deny that they were after gunpowder. My point is that the storming of the Bastille doesn't measure up to Castor's definition of an insurrection. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ProfDaveAndress And, as I tweeted elsewhere, Jeremy Popkin on Page 137 stresses that the storming of the Bastille was (quoting the women of Paris) for "King and country." — PolitiTweet.org

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@ProfDaveAndress I was working off Jeremy Popkin's "A New World Begins." — PolitiTweet.org

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@SenatorZero On Page 137 of Jeremy Popkin's "A New World Begins," he cites the women of Paris saying that the fight at the Bastille was for "King and country." So, of course, Louis XVI wouldn't feel threatened by it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ProfDaveAndress Castor's claim was that an insurrection involves an elaborate plan to overthrow the government. Page 137 of Jeremy Popkin's "A New World Begins" says that women urged their husband to rush to the Bastille saying, "It's for King and country." — PolitiTweet.org

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In 1789, the Parisian people had no plan what to do next when they seized the Bastille. So, by Castor's logic, it wasn't an insurrection. I guess the storming of the Bastille should be remembered as merely an expansion of prison visiting hours. — PolitiTweet.org

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Also, the story that the bullying flack is threatening a reporter over is probably infinitely shorter lasting and less significant than the ramifications if the news of the threat gets out, as it did with the Biden press office. — PolitiTweet.org

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Let's if I understand this correctly: The real martyr in this case is Van der Veen because his family's livelihood is supposedly threatened by the law professors' letter. As I recall, other people in the Senate chamber have also been threatened recently -- by a violent mob. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MichaelMcGough3 I think the word "not" is superfluous in this sentence. — PolitiTweet.org

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My God, Schoen just said "Democratic Party candidates." He should be fired from the Trump defense team immediately. The only proper language is "Democrat Party candidates." — PolitiTweet.org

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This video seems designed to make VP Joe Biden look good. Somehow I don't think that was the intent of the Trump defense team. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Sulliview And I fell for it. [Deleted prior response because of a typo in a five-word tweet]. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Sulliview And I fell from it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@greenfield64 I recall a 2000 Gore speech in the primaries when the entire 10-speech was an English as a Second Language instruction tape on the various uses of the verb "fight," the noun "fight" and the gerund "fighting." — PolitiTweet.org

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I have now reached the moment where I am ready to watch Sean Hannity reruns as a refuge from the Schoen video. — PolitiTweet.org