Walter Shapiro

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Just in case you were wondering, I have no need to know the position of any actor, singer or Instagram influencer on impeachment. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DickPolman1 Do Hannity and Tucker Carlson count? If not, I will go with Jerry Falwell Jr. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesFallows @darlin @jayrosen_nyu I am not sure that I will ever forget that “paw prints” kicker. — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s the John Dean Test. He is honored today for his Watergate testimony — and not what he did in the Nixon White House. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ElizabethDrewOH: Fallings out among thieves, which is going on now among Trumpsters, also characterized Watergate, and you know how tha… — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesFallows @julianzelizer I was at the Washington Monthly then too. And I remember someone going to the news vendor outside the Mayflower Hotel to get the first edition of the Post with the "smoking gun" transcript. I have a vivid memory of us at the Monthly then taking parts and reading it aloud. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RonBrownstein You're so right about the concision (and his love of burying the news nuggets in the middle of the column so you'd keep reading) and, sadly, his love of conspiracy theories. — PolitiTweet.org

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@CharlesPPierce Afraid we're going to have to disagree on his overall record. It won't convince you, but I thought I would post my 1990 profile of Safire for Time. (The Time archive gives it the wrong date). https://t.co/1a3DbA6Cig — PolitiTweet.org

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I miss Safire every day I pick up the Times or consult my dog-eared copies of all editions of "Safire's Political Dictionary." He was a glorious original -- and quite possibly, ideology be damned, the best newspaper columnist of the last quarter of the 20th century. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Profepps Dammit. Am I the only one needs to have every emoji explained to me? — PolitiTweet.org

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@leonblum Yes, now that you have refreshed my memory. I just realized that I got to Ann Arbor just in time for the second teach-in in September 1965. — PolitiTweet.org

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As a student, I was at the early anti-Vietnam teach-ins at the University of Michigan. They were well run and used academic experts to make major points about Vietnam's history. By 1968, the movement expanded to sponsor what may have been the first feminist teach-in in America. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ProfCiara I advanced the notion in the hopes that repurposing it would make it much less toxic. Example -- I suspect most Americans who have heard for "Deep Throat" don't remember it was inspired by a pornographic movie. — PolitiTweet.org

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I think we can use the Republican epithet and repurpose it with a nod to Deep Throat. Let's called the Whistleblower "Deep State." — PolitiTweet.org

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@dkahanerules Afraid we are doomed to disagree. But remember that the GOP had all the advantages that came with partisan redistricting after the 2010 Census and still couldn't hold the House. Something is deeply wrong with the product. Hopefully, we can continue this soon in person. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dkahanerules Democrats did pick up six House seats in California. But they would still have a House majority without California. And all of Connecticut's five House members were Democrats before the 2018 election. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dkahanerules Maybe, to hark back to an old advertising-agency joke, the dogs didn't like what the Republicans were selling. I think the evidence shows that the GOP has a real and growing suburban problem, especially with women voters. And Paul Ryan was certainly not the answer to anything. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dkahanerules It was 2018 and not 2016. And how do you call Democrats winning seats in very Republican states like SC, Oklahoma, Utah and Alabama to be stealing? — PolitiTweet.org

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@SeanTrende @SusanPage As I typed those words that I first heard Connally shout at a Maine straw poll in late 1979, I realized how up-to-date his anti-trade rant sounded. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SusanPage I still say that we should let all those Toyotas rot on the docks of Yokohama. — PolitiTweet.org

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@KennethBaer Phil Gramm who began the 1996 primary season by losing a caucus in Louisiana that his people had rigged. It went downhill from there. — PolitiTweet.org

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It was so bad that it erased John Connally from the record books. — PolitiTweet.org

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@polguru That had been my sense from afar before his comments today. — PolitiTweet.org

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@david_darmofal Bigger advantage is a smaller committee (half the size of Judiciary) and Republicans like Hurd and maybe Elise Stefanek who are not automatically Trump toadies. Also, I would take Schiff over Nadler as chair in a heartbeat. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ClydeHaberman Scary thing is that Ryan may believe that's true. — PolitiTweet.org

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Will Hurd, who is retiring in 2020, is on the House Intelligence Committee. If the Intelligence Committee takes the lead on impeachment, Hurd may have a chance to update the role of a Republican with Conscience originally played by the 7 GOP members who backed impeaching Nixon. — PolitiTweet.org

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This rundown is a huge public service by @michaelscherer. I am rooting for this to be a regular feature during the long run of Trump's Ukrainian Uneasiness. Not even reporters can follow every development during an intense eight hours. — PolitiTweet.org

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My favorite blind quote of the day. It's about Paul Ryan on the Fox News board: “'Paul is embarrassed about Trump and now he has the power to do something about it.” Ryan, of course, also had a dollop of power when he was House Speaker under Trump. https://t.co/BtqW799dxY — PolitiTweet.org

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@mseyfang “I am not a crook” was Nixon wanting to be thought an honest man. La Rouchfoucault’s line (“Hypocrisy is a tribute vice pays virtue”) applies totally to Nixon. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DaveD1973 I did this from memory. But I believe the story is in the Woodward-Bernstein book, “The Final Days.” — PolitiTweet.org