Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

.@JillDLawrence captures my feelings about Liz Cheney: "Think Annie Oakley meets Margaret Thatcher. The testing moments keep coming and, unlike so many others in the Republican Party, she keeps rising to them." I never thought I'd ever cheer for a Cheney: https://t.co/XocVfzWBAf — PolitiTweet.org

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@Betsy_Cazden @markzbarabak At this point in almost every presidency, these stories appear. It’s less a conspiracy than the mismatch surrounding expectations of a VP and the inevitable limitations of his his or her powers. Read Robert Caro on LBJ in, say, 1962. — PolitiTweet.org

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As @markzbarabak wisely points out, Harris is suffering the fate of every VP not named Cheney. Compounding the problem is that Harris does not have a special area of pre-existing needed by Biden like mastery of foreign policy or the workings of the Senate. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MickiMaynard: Here is @markzbarabak asking a question I literally asked this week. It feels like she’s vanished. https://t.co/2UMj6ELueZ — PolitiTweet.org

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@dcg1114 I know, I grew up in Connecticut. But they are I think comparable to the bridges on the Saw Mill and the Henry Hutchison in Westchester which are significantly higher than those on Moses’s Southern State. — PolitiTweet.org

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Put me in Caro’s and Buttigieg’s corner on this. Testimony of a top Moses aide should not be minimized. And bridge heights on the Moses Southern State Parkway are indeed lower than comparable bridges of the era in Westchester County. Verdict: It’s a good historical example. — PolitiTweet.org

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Key point in defense of the Caro version. Bridges on Moses’s Southern State Parkway are significantly lower than on comparable early scenic highways in Westchester County. — PolitiTweet.org

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Very smart piece reminding those exuding certainty how much can change in a year. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@lisatozzi You don’t have to worry about me. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

A great journey by my friend and long-time colleague. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@DavidKusnet @PeteButtigieg @AFSCME @DistCouncil37 More than four decades after I read “The Power Broker,” I remember in vivid detail Moses explicit decision to build bridges too low for buses. It remains a classic example of governmental racism. — PolitiTweet.org

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@randolph6 Yes. The situation changed. As it often does on Capitol Hill. That’s why I tried to make my tweet lighthearted. — PolitiTweet.org

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And if the Squad is wrong, as I suspect they will be, this vote will be held against them for a long time. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DemFromCT Be still my beating heart. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

I will always fondly remember the nine minutes tonight when it looked like the House Democrats would not humiliate Biden and Pelosi. It was glorious while it lasted. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ktumulty @RonBrownstein @danbalz The difference, of course, is that Clinton didn’t pitch himself as a master of Congress. The Clinton and Jimmy Carter legislative problems flowed from inexperience with Capitol Hill. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattizcoop “The Profiles in Courage” version of Reconstruction. I don’t think the heroism of Edmund Ross fits current historical thinking. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattizcoop Moynihan’s dream didn’t get nearly this close. Sending the Balanced Budget Amendment to the states would be my nominee. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattizcoop And all the congressional Democrats who study it will be in the minority. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is heartbreaking to watch. There is $1 trillion on the table with no Joe Manchin problems. Just take it. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

RT @dianefeldman: ICYMI, I did a quick blog post yesterday on message and the election. My early quantitative take is even simpler: Democra… — PolitiTweet.org

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@ThirdWayMattB The 10-year price tag was indeed ludicrous and self-defeating. You don’t hear about an $8-trillion 10-year Pentagon spending bill. — PolitiTweet.org

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@maggieNYT @dcg1114 Never good politics when most of the news is about the 13-figure price tag rather than the contents. Biden and Company couldn’t explain the bill because its contents kept changing. Also a mistake to delay an easy victory on infrastructure. — PolitiTweet.org

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@maggieNYT @dcg1114 Not minimizing the Democrats’ problems since mid-summer. Elections really just ratified what we already knew: nation’s sour mood, pandemic fatigue, problems with White House competence and too much tacking left in Congress and in rhetoric. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dcg1114 @maggieNYT It was the rise of the delta variant that did the most damage to Biden after the optimism of July 4. Granted, Afghanistan at the same time in mid-August didn’t help. But the pandemic was always a bigger issue than a half-forgotten war. — PolitiTweet.org

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Hardest thing for activists to understand is that tactics that feel emotionally satisfying are often counter-productive. I belatedly learned that from the anti war movement during Vietnam. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JohnKohut23 @newrepublic Thanks. I didn’t go back that far. Clearly I should have. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JillDLawrence: .@MrWalterShapiro, a grownup in the Twitter room, says hold on a minute, Dems, don't reach for the smelling salts just y… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @UChicagoCEG: The presidential primary process is in need of reform in advance of upcoming elections, writes @mrwaltershapiro for @Brenn… — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

.@JillDLawrence gets it right: "The chief task before Democrats must be saving America from...Donald Trump's incendiary brand of corruption, lies and threats to democracy. And they aren't instilling much confidence so far, in either Congress or Virginia." https://t.co/hWljoWoeAf — PolitiTweet.org