Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@JeffSmithMO I might add Thune to that secret list. — PolitiTweet.org

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The House always wins. — PolitiTweet.org

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And I bet that none of them could have imagined that future generations would see anything wrong with them barking into the phone, "Sweetheart, get me rewrite." — PolitiTweet.org

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Hopefully, these happy-go-lucky gamblers will never get on an airplane and never return to their home states. Because, I pray, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. — PolitiTweet.org

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@geneweingarten I have even downloaded it. The original, of course. — PolitiTweet.org

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Maybe the true message here is that Ted Cruz isn't even good at hoarding. — PolitiTweet.org

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In contrast, New York which has been pretty good on social distancing and mask wearing reported 35 Covid-19 deaths yesterday. NYC, which has a larger population than Arizona, had a day this week with zero deaths from the virus. — PolitiTweet.org

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@christine8614 @reedgalen Part of it is that no one knows for such what Henry II said. Everything is a reconstruction, which is why I went to the Yale Book of Quotations for their view on which words were the most probable. — PolitiTweet.org

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@christine8614 @reedgalen I would have posted faster, but I wanted to go to my hardcover copy of "The Yale Dictionary of Quotations" to double check whether the best authority said it was "turbulent" rather than the more commonly used "troublesome." — PolitiTweet.org

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Henry II: "Who will deliver me from this turbulent priest?" No direct order, but it didn't do much for Thomas Becket's life expectancy. — PolitiTweet.org

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@LukeEpplin It's even more powerful in the book. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DemFromCT @AstorAaron Of course, in a presidential election year, it is the October unemployment numbers that are more important than anything prior. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DemFromCT @AstorAaron In defense of the BLS, they will fix this problem over the next four months and Trump will then have to deal with a probable jump in the unemployment rate unless the recovery is really robust. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ChrisBuryNews Finally, a cause that should unify left and right, aside from the spineless and grammar-less Trump apologists. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bcrodriguez: Iowa’s secretary of state sent every registered voter a mail absentee ballot request form, leading to record primary turno… — PolitiTweet.org

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His father, Senator Charles Goodell, was the leading victim of Nixon's "law-and-order" campaign in 1970. A liberal Republican (yes, they existed back then), he lost to James Buckley (William F.'s brother) running on the Conservative line. — PolitiTweet.org

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"We’ve had a replay of two major stories of the mid-20th century: the civil rights revolution and the Cold War’s most thrilling moral victory, the moon landing." Luckily, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Diane McWhorter is an expert on both. So read her new piece: https://t.co/tTJtUQzVHd — PolitiTweet.org

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Am I correct that in DC Trump is getting the military parade he always craved? Minus the cheering crowds, of course. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jameshohmann I just don’t understand why major news organizations hire such clumsy reporters who fall all the time. — PolitiTweet.org

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Why do we need the words “viral video” to partly deter police from acting like lawless thugs. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SallyAlbright Deleted a tweet tonight after 15 seconds because I made a typo. — PolitiTweet.org

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@g_hooligan They were pretty boring, which is why I know I could never have gotten them published anywhere under my own name. — PolitiTweet.org

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Now that we know that James Bennet did not read the Op-Ed before publication, do we know that Cotton himself wrote it? The norm on Capitol Hill has long been that staffers do the writing. I published two Times Op-Eds working for a senator in the 1970s. He barely read them. — PolitiTweet.org

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Now that we know that James Bennet did not read the Op-Ed before publication, do we know that Cotton himself wrote it? The norm on Capitol Hill has long been that staffers do the writing. I'm published two Times Op-Eds working for a senator in the 1970s. He barely read them. — PolitiTweet.org

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Great idea. I think the tearing down should be part of the Inaugural festivities like the parade and the balls. — PolitiTweet.org

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The city at the worst point had nearly 600 deaths a day. This is what can be done if people are sensible about social distancing, mask wearing and keep non-essential businesses closed as long as needed. The entire city should feel proud. I know I do. — PolitiTweet.org

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These days, here on Manhattan's Upper West Side, no one calls me with the enthusiasm and frequency to match Jerry Nadler -- or, at least, his recorded voice. Of course, the fact that he has a primary challenge on June 23 is purely coincidental. — PolitiTweet.org

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"The Lonely Guy's Book of Life" is hysterically funny. I can still remember Friedman advising down-in-the-dumps would-be authors not to try to start their novels with the line, "Mel was depressed." — PolitiTweet.org

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Of course, Murkowski has already lost one primary and then won the general election on a write-in. That experience encourages courage. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RobGeorge @greenfield64 I just wish Schumer had the quiet persuasive power of Daschle with Jim Jeffords. — PolitiTweet.org