Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@DavidKusnet Too bad that the Park Avenue apartment building where Dean grew up is a little too non-commercial to serve as our setting. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@chrisreeder_ATX The sidewalk squabble -- unique to the COVID era -- is what makes my movie idea transcend standard Hallmark fare. That said, most sidewalk Christmas tree venders in NYC have the appropriate four-day stubble. — PolitiTweet.org

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@kausmickey @henryolsenEPPC More thanks. I came up with this theory two days after the election when good data wasn't available. That said, I would love to see if there were a more dramatic House drop off in a state like, say, FL or MI where the Biden campaign heavily pushed early voting unlike California. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SendStephen Actually, Vermont was cinema-verité. Most of the Xmas tree sellers in my NYC neighborhood seem to be from Vermont. — PolitiTweet.org

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@LeahLibresco Yours is more upbeat than my original thought: Covid Christmas. — PolitiTweet.org

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Simplest explanation: Biden is the rare president to regain the White House just four years after his party was ousted from power. So the Democratic bench is still relevant unlike with, say, Clinton in 1992. Reagan is an exception because of the ideological gulf from Ford. — PolitiTweet.org

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@sansivera But most Christmas tree sellers in my neighbor on the Upper West Side seem to be from Vermont. — PolitiTweet.org

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@alexheard Better version: She calls him Ben and Jerry so interchangeably that she literally forgets that his first name is Spencer. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Margoandhow Cowardice. And fear of a primary. Or being snubbed at the country club. — PolitiTweet.org

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@billscher No one minded the Christmas tree venders before COVID forced outdoor dining in December. — PolitiTweet.org

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Thank you for this. I have long been convinced that polls asking about a vaccine are not predictive of behavior when the public discovers there are minimal side effects. — PolitiTweet.org

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My Hallmark Christmas movie pitch: A handsome Vermont farmer has been selling Christmas trees on the same patch of Manhattan sidewalk for a decade. But now a plucky young woman who owns a cafe needs the same sidewalk for outdoor dining. Conflict, more conflict and then romance. — PolitiTweet.org

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@greenfield64 You mean that Lamar! didn't get out of bed until halfway through his Senate tenure? — PolitiTweet.org

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Totally agree as someone who covered both of the red-checked-shirt presidential runs by Lamar! — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattizcoop @ballerinaoaf @rollcall Charles Dawes, who went on to be Coolidge's 1924 running mate, was the first director of the Bureau of the Budget under Harding. It was in the original version of my column but I sadly had to cut it for space because it's also for the print newspaper. — PolitiTweet.org

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@baronhaynes @davidsirota @neeratanden @JoeBiden No relation to the hateful Ben Shapiro. — PolitiTweet.org

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@LA_Crystal @cwillott @davidsirota @neeratanden @JoeBiden My grandmother has been dead for a long time. And what is the political point that you think I’m making? My only point is that I think Biden should have an OMB director that he trusts. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ameliawizard @davidsirota @neeratanden @JoeBiden Nope. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Herb13238050 @elisha1022 @davidsirota @neeratanden @JoeBiden The issue, by the way, was changing the way that Social Security calculates inflation for indexing benefits. The proposal was never a cut. Personally, I think that the super-wealthy shouldn't get Social Security benefits. Does that make me morally corrupt? — PolitiTweet.org

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@elisha1022 @davidsirota @neeratanden @JoeBiden Why am I corrupt because I disagree with you? — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidsirota @neeratanden @JoeBiden Someday I will understand why out of nowhere you called me one of "these garbage people." One can disagree without being vicious, in case you haven't noticed. — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidsirota @neeratanden @JoeBiden It was a decade ago. And I'm just quoting your publication. Biden, by the way, won the Democratic nomination and the election in case you didn't notice. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ballerinaoaf @rollcall Thank you for noticing this intriguing detail. My point is that I can see battles over Treasury, State or Attorney General arousing fierce reactions. But OMB? I had to go back and look up who was Obama's OMB director in 2009 -- and I covered the administration. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TimothyNoah1 @rschles @jonathanchait We can start the "90 over 90" list with the Queen. — PolitiTweet.org

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@alexheard Don't know for sure. But my guess is that the network that exists (Heritage Foundation, etc.) is not large enough to handle the intense demand. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rschles @jonathanchait I'm dreaming of being on the media list of "90 Under 9()." — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@Ed_Realist One semantic question: If we are all despised as you claim, why are we so powerful? Also, when have I made a threat to a CEO? — PolitiTweet.org

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@Ed_Realist Well, that certainly was an escalation. For the record, I am not boycotting anyone. I just don't think that being a Trump enabler is a way to have enhanced a resume. You disagree. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Ed_Realist Another theory: Maybe it's because they were the enablers of an incompetent, lying, grifting president who brought embarrassment to our democracy. — PolitiTweet.org

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Ron Ziegler, Nixon's press secretary, became the president of the National Association of Truck Stop Operators. I wouldn't advise any Trump veterans to aim that high. — PolitiTweet.org