Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

I am thinking that the only way of getting the vaccine is to check myself into a nursing home. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@DavidLauter @HotlineJosh Which is the only correct answer. Everything else is monkeys throwing darts at newspaper stock tables to create a portfolio. — PolitiTweet.org

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It's quite an impressive performance by someone who is not normally a visible public figure. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Just realized that my full-time job is now reading the Washington newsletters that pop up in my inbox almost every hour. At least, it is quicker than listening to podcasts on my pandemic commute from dining room to living room. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ktumulty I forgot to ask: "How big's the media budget?" If it isn't eight figures, I think that you should be spending a lot more of your day devoted to "call time." — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbresq100 @ktumulty Golly. I am honored. Can’t wait to go to Stockholm for the award ceremony. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ktumulty Playing the role of Jim Farley. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ktumulty I have a slogan for you: “Even Better Than Maurice Stans” — PolitiTweet.org

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This is so good that I have nothing to add other than kudos. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump certainly has built his administration along the lines of Groucho's promise: "If you think the country's bad off now, wait until I get through with it." — PolitiTweet.org

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@ZachMontellaro I think Perdue is a "former" at the moment. And I think Brindisi is a "disputed House member whose reelection is uncertain." — PolitiTweet.org

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@JimZarroli I'm not sure. But I know McConnell can make one a federal judge. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump can play Caligula and give the Medal of Freedom to a horse, as far as I care. That honor is already cheapened beyond recognition. But I want Trump to be obsessed with cheap trinkets like debased medals rather than further plotting against democracy. Keep him busy til 01/20. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesFallows And yet his supporters love him for his disdain of their lives. The interplay is fascinating. — PolitiTweet.org

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On the full tape, Trump expresses incredulity that anyone would ever move back to Georgia. It would seem to me that Trump's love of the state is, in reality, rather muted. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump late in the call: "I know where this call is going..." No, Mr. President, you don't know the half of it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JaneMayerNYer I knew her slightly as a lefty in the early 1970s. I always wondered about the backstory. — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm impressed as well. Also, Raffensperger gathers strength in his voice as the call goes on. It's almost as if he increasingly realizes that he can indeed stand up against an enraged president of the United States. — PolitiTweet.org

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We end the Trump years with the one enduring tradition of White House political scandals -- there's always an audio tape. — PolitiTweet.org

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@k8croy I fear the response -- even to a flashy TV campaign -- would be disappointingly small. Only a series of landslide defeats might jeopardize the GOP's future. And even then, I am somewhat dubious. — PolitiTweet.org

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Thinking about the WPost tape, Trump clearly believes that he will never have his father's love if he is a "Loser." But he also never did have his father's love as a purported "Winner." God, am I nostalgic for a drunk Nixon talking to the portraits in the White House. — PolitiTweet.org

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Can't wait to see the parade of congressional Republicans insisting that they haven't read the bombshell Washington Post article or heard the tape. Hermits in remote villages are more in loop than GOP legislators will claim to be. — PolitiTweet.org

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I offer a name for what Republicans are trying to do in Congress on January 6th: "Nullification." While the 1832 crisis was different, it did center on a segregationist Vice President, John Calhoun, which is enough of a historical echo for me in 2021. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JosephBottum @levistahl As an non-expert in 19th century English literature, I also note that David Copperfield's would-be profession of a proctor is also partly ecclesiastical. — PolitiTweet.org

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Many of these Republicans are smart about politics or they wouldn’t have gotten so far. It is why I think they are afraid of Trump tweets more than they are in predicting where GOP voters will be in 2024. Sasse is such an intriguing exception since he too is young and ambitious. — PolitiTweet.org

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@levistahl Twaddles, in contrast, is proof that even at 10 years old, good character is evident. — PolitiTweet.org

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@nielslesniewski Not that there was even a sliver of doubt. But Romney, Murkowski and Toomey guarantee a 51-48 majority for Biden in a Senate where there will be a Georgia vacancy until the ballots are certified. — PolitiTweet.org

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Analogy that has occurred to me are successful class action law suits in which decades can be squandered (and huge lawyers' fees earned) deciding how to divide the pie. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Bencjacobs A cardinal rule of renaming: Nothing commemorating a newspaper should ever be changed. — PolitiTweet.org

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@levistahl Thrilled by your commentary on "David Copperfield." I had somehow omitted it in my reading of Dickens, and only rectified the colossal error in late December. So every page that you cite brings another wonderful bit from the novel back to life. — PolitiTweet.org