Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Kevin McCarthy: "Everybody across this country has some responsibility” for 1/6. Me in @rollcall: "I confess. I’m responsible for some anti-Trump tweets while Trump whom McCarthy reveres urged on a mob that sacked the Capitol. Seems pretty equivalent." https://t.co/T8bmRNpzOU — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@rmeszoly @newrepublic After reading compulsively, I think there is talk of a movie. Also, I discovered that the actress who played Arlette is 87. — PolitiTweet.org

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As a huge fan of "Call My Agent" and someone who is devastated by watching the last episode last night, I have endlessly read appreciations of the show. This @newrepublic article is the smartest assessment that I have read. — PolitiTweet.org

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@greenfield64 Aren't we into the Biden lame-duck phase already? I mean, the guy has had five days and all he has to show for it are executive orders and rejoining treaties. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@StuPolitics Such are the perils of being a small market team in the uneven playing field of 2021 baseball. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@igorbobic There is a Woody Hayes and Ohio State "three yards and a cloud of dust" joke in here somewhere fighting to get out. — PolitiTweet.org

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My favorite email headline promoting a magazine that I have received in weeks. This one from Jacobin is stunning in its predicability: "Bernie is right, and Biden is wrong." The topic (yawn) is Medicare for All, which, of course, would be a snap to pass in the Senate. — PolitiTweet.org

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Wonderful detail and totally accurate about former press secretaries. Though I thought that a few of them might have been getting ready to run for county drain commissioner or a similarly exalted job like coroner. There's a Ron Ziegler joke in there somewhere fighting to get out. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattizcoop @Bencjacobs Like “Julius Caesar”? — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

In addition to Newt, the rightwing evangelist David Barton has been peddling his own ersatz version of American history since the 1990s. Barton has been long claiming that America was always a Christian nation. https://t.co/TDi9FW26Ym — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@alexheard That poem may well be the most harrowing description of war ever. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

As I practice extreme caution before I get the vaccine, I am influenced by the story of the death of the great anti-war poet Wilfred Owen who died in France in a meaningless skirmish one week before the World War I Armistice. https://t.co/Vqpxkxe1Zd — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

I realized as I am reading compulsively about the Russian protests that I have more emotional energy to care about other countries with Biden as president. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Republicans should ask themselves anew if this is how they wanted American democracy to end. Despite the horrors of January 6, it could have been so much worse. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DailyRuctions Or only watched PBS. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Punch-line: "We're intentionally a non-TV family." — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@PoliticsReid What about 1684? — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@PoliticsReid As goes Liechtenstein, so goes San Marino. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Vin Scully: "It is a great moment for all of us." Watching this clip 46 years later is such an emotional tribute to Aaron. — PolitiTweet.org

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@CarlosLozadaWP At exceptional times in history, executive orders may be signed “in a blizzard.” — PolitiTweet.org

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My problem as a political reporter with leaked polls. Campaigns only leak the ones that make them look good even if they are outliers. You can’t do polling averages or understand the methodology. They are deceptive by nature even in an under-polled environment. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

We have the all-time winner. No need to ever look at another Bernie meme. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

I predict that it will also be accurate to write tomorrow: "In his second full day in office, Biden faces multiple crises." — PolitiTweet.org

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An email appeal I'll cruelly reject: "Dear Walter -- My name is Rep. Marjorie Greene, and I will introduce Articles of Impeachment against Joe Biden. My announcement has made me a target of the left, they’ve launched their attacks and Twitter suspended my account the other day." — PolitiTweet.org

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@Olivianuzzi @joepanozzo I see a re-education camp in my future. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@joepanozzo @Olivianuzzi I was commenting solely on her word choice. I had said in a tweet yesterday that my initial reaction was very positive over the way that Jen Psaki conducted briefings. I hope commenting on word choice is not forbidden in the post-Trump world. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Olivianuzzi @brooks_dozier Damn. Thanks for pointing that out. It was in the memo I got from the DNC this morning, but I forgot. So now is my chance: "Trump was awful." Phew. — PolitiTweet.org

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@brooks_dozier @Olivianuzzi I am not criticizing Jen Psaki for not answering off the top of her head. I just noted her word choice versus, say, "I will try to find out." — PolitiTweet.org

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Is "circle back" the first buzz phrase of the Biden Administration? — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@moiraeve1 @newrepublic Argument has always been over the timing of trying to pass the ACA. Some argue that Obama should have made it the centerpiece of the 2012 campaign instead of rushing it. But, again, the Obama team didn't see that this would cost them the House. — PolitiTweet.org