Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Please Twitter, enough with these helpful hints: "Some conversations can get heavy Don’t forget the human behind the screen." — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

RT @NormOrnstein: Exactly. ⁦@JillDLawrence⁩ Punish Trump and those in Congress who betrayed voters and America https://t.co/fwXasvq2Vh — PolitiTweet.org

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@Azuaron @rollcall Then you read my argument. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@TimothyNoah1 If so, why did he wait so long and help Biden approve judges and ambassadors? — PolitiTweet.org

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@jonathanalter May the sniffles be the end of this little interlude. Get well soon. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DKarol Also, could someone explain how you can have massive structural change in America -- including eliminating the Senate -- when the Democrats can't even muster 50 votes. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Azuaron @rollcall Read the piece instead of the tweet. — PolitiTweet.org

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@swin24 “Kill a Mockingbird” on Broadway is depressingly heavy-handed with none of the nuance of the Harper Lee book or even the movie. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SusanZakin No they won't bring down the republic. But they sure a hell will depress Democratic turnout in 2022 with fateful consequences. — PolitiTweet.org

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@protecttruth_ @mattizcoop Feel free to write all my tweets for me in the future. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RachelBitecofer Thank you for this rather important point. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattizcoop No, it doesn't. But the Biden presidency may depend on how suicidal disappointed Democrats get and whether they stay home in 2022 out of anger. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SusanZakin By the way, realizing you have just 48 votes isn’t the “Beltway mentality,” it’s arithmetic. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SusanZakin Disagree, alas. When you don’t have the votes, you don’t have the votes. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is the most powerful piece on the pandemic I have read all month. I really hope it leads to a book. But, in any case, please read this combination of great reporting and a compassionate, over-worked doctor. — PolitiTweet.org

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Suddenly this just popped up on my Twitter feed: "Some conversations can get heavy Don’t forget the human behind the screen." All I can say in response is "It ain't heavy, it's my tweet." — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Key point in this smart column: "Biden and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) have engaged in magical thinking, overestimating their abilities to cajole and entice Manchin to vote for something so clearly not in his interest — and to do so by Christmas." — PolitiTweet.org

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@dceiver Nah. Just wear a good mask and don't eat at indoor restaurants. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @PaulRudnickNY: When I presented my vax card and a recent negative COVID test I added my SAT scores and the maitre’d suggested I’d be ha… — PolitiTweet.org

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Let me add this endorsement to a wonderful World War II piece. In honor of just about the last surviving bomber pilot of the war. Please read it. — PolitiTweet.org

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That is the hardest lesson for the Democratic left to learn. There are moments when I worry that leftwing rage will create Majority Leader Mitch McConnell before the 2022 elections. — PolitiTweet.org

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Of course, 8 million immigrants arrived at Castle Garden in Lower Manhattan at the Battery, which was the New York immigration point of entry from 1855 to 1890. Even the right-wing Ellis Island slur is historically wrong. — PolitiTweet.org

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@LeeMiringoff Hated the cheesy videos that went with the song, but I am a long-time fan of Maureen McGovern and this song is a variant of Herb Stein's famous dictum: "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." — PolitiTweet.org

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To deal with the bleak mood, I am tempted to spend the rest of the day reading "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm." — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Before the mood gets too bleak, remember that this will not go on forever. As evidence I cite my favorite disaster movie theme song: https://t.co/K0XKcmVVOD — PolitiTweet.org

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@ktumulty Don't know much about the contest. But Sidney Powell assures me that Hugo Chavez has "rigged" the results from the Great Beyond. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ricredman @JamesKestrel @WSJBooks Congratulations. You just sold a book. To me. — PolitiTweet.org

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@alexheard @TimothyNoah1 @hermbo The book in many ways is better and bleaker. Applegate finds a substitute Joe Hardy and life goes on. — PolitiTweet.org

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@hermbo @TimothyNoah1 @alexheard Here is the official research monograph on Joe Hardy's major league career: https://t.co/SFDtC8THZI — PolitiTweet.org

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@TimothyNoah1 @alexheard As much as I enjoy literalism in the musical theater, I do feel obligated to point out that the Devil (aka Applegate) in reality did not allow the Washington Senators to win a pennant in the 1950s with Joe Hardy in the outfield. — PolitiTweet.org