| Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
| What it takes to survive Louisiana politics | 2021-12-29 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476063125455523840 | 1476063125455523840 |
| Six challenges for 2022 | 2021-12-28 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475850293921206274 | 1475850293921206274 |
| Politicians like to take the money and give the blame. | 2021-12-28 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475731454038462469 | 1475731454038462469 |
| Nine biggest political questions of 2022! | 2021-12-28 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475729373231648769 | 1475729373231648769 |
| Are we headed toward regional federalism? | 2021-12-26 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475249381737525249 | 1475249381737525249 |
| Anybody want to be mayor of a large city? You're pretty | 2021-12-26 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475181233508212743 | 1475181233508212743 |
| What should be the Democratic program? | 2021-12-23 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473821731353550848 | 1473821731353550848 |
| How should Democrats preserve majority rule? | 2021-12-11 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469659704120864771 | 1469659704120864771 |
| Choose words carefully but focus on the substance. | 2021-12-07 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1468265231847542787 | 1468265231847542787 |
| Maybe it's time to be explicit about class warfare - | 2021-12-05 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1467531488564420612 | 1467531488564420612 |
| Unclear on the concept! | 2021-12-04 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466932349514379266 | 1466932349514379266 |
| Bradley "talked about the tax reform law he’d written | 2021-12-04 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466926821094555648 | 1466926821094555648 |
| More on the barely-averted government shutdown - expect | 2021-12-03 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466611672349511680 | 1466611672349511680 |
| GOP senators would rather shut down the government in | 2021-12-02 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466425892108845056 | 1466425892108845056 |
| The price of doing something, or even trying, is generating | 2021-12-01 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466126332635484163 | 1466126332635484163 |
| Any leader that gets significant change enacted can expect | 2021-11-20 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461854200871014407 | 1461854200871014407 |
| "To succeed in politics, you need to make your opponent | 2021-11-14 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459966717963034629 | 1459966717963034629 |
| Youngkin wouldn't let a dropout with no financial | 2021-11-10 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1458229539352444931 | 1458229539352444931 |
| What's a Democrat? | 2021-11-08 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1457554388008927238 | 1457554388008927238 |
| Historically, most farmers and ranchers voted Republican. | 2021-11-07 | 29 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1457232553354547202 | 1457232553354547202 |
| A guy was proselytizing for the LaRouche PAC outside a | 2021-10-30 | 38 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1454305008044822529 | 1454305008044822529 |
| There are two possible paths to winning close elections | 2021-10-28 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453518359589392385 | 1453518359589392385 |
| AZ is not WV. There are limits to what a Democrat can | 2021-10-21 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451251553562595334 | 1451251553562595334 |
| As usual, control of Congress in2022 will be largely up | 2021-10-21 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451245348895133696 | 1451245348895133696 |
| Off to Paris! | 2021-10-15 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449160084106330113 | 1449160084106330113 |
| A positive view of Kyrsten Sinema. | 2021-10-15 | 98 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1448997310273241089 | 1448997310273241089 |
| Homeowners associations in LA - a model for progressives | 2021-10-15 | 111 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448857027862675460 | 1448857027862675460 |
| Another attempt by never-Trumpist traditional conservatives | 2021-10-11 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447618574437076996 | 1447618574437076996 |
| Fall will test GOP in Congress | 2021-10-11 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447555317017939972 | 1447555317017939972 |
| Can't tell the players without a scorecard! | 2021-10-10 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447310936352583684 | 1447310936352583684 |
| As Wisconsin goes, so goes the country? | 2021-10-10 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447307922321514497 | 1447307922321514497 |
| The Constitution stacks the deck for rural states run | 2021-10-09 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446707793419927556 | 1446707793419927556 |
| A Republican caucusing with Democrats | 2021-10-06 | 188 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445847215746863107 | 1445847215746863107 |
| Let Sinema and Machin coddle their major donors as we | 2021-10-05 | 223 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445214204047159297 | 1445214204047159297 |
| Looks like Democrats have lost Florida to the GOP. | 2021-10-04 | 124 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445116735082749959 | 1445116735082749959 |
| Senator Cinema | 2021-10-04 | 147 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444833037032701953 | 1444833037032701953 |
| “The absence of pragmatism among Democrats is as | 2021-09-30 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1443661788340359170 | 1443661788340359170 |
| Considered point by point, voters support Biden's plans. | 2021-09-17 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1438712253507719169 | 1438712253507719169 |
| Is Biden suddenly unpopular because of his actions or | 2021-09-09 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1435763769393614848 | 1435763769393614848 |
| Too many moving pieces? | 2021-09-08 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1435739271504154627 | 1435739271504154627 |
| Democrats were probably going to lose control of Congress | 2021-08-31 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1432527113450516480 | 1432527113450516480 |
| Why are there endless budget crises? | 2021-08-27 | 56 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1431285746539761664 | 1431285746539761664 |
| Does the Democratic leadership know what it's doing? | 2021-08-13 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1426030416851439616 | 1426030416851439616 |
| Once again the country is held hostage to the debt ceiling | 2021-08-09 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1424744290035507200 | 1424744290035507200 |
| Utterly dysfunctional government - a pillar of minority | 2021-08-09 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1424742934751039488 | 1424742934751039488 |
| Debt ceiling politics - a big game of chicken. | 2021-08-05 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1423366247069061122 | 1423366247069061122 |
| It's still the same old story - holding the good credit of | 2021-07-22 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1418233572574433281 | 1418233572574433281 |
| West Virginia politics affects everybody! One way to | 2021-06-30 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1410243933481865225 | 1410243933481865225 |
| Will tax return disclosure reduce the number of joke | 2021-06-29 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1409719369920180228 | 1409719369920180228 |
| It's about time! If Congress has to agree to declare war, | 2021-06-18 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1405691311525535746 | 1405691311525535746 |
| How Manchin fits into WV politics. | 2021-06-12 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1403562503993323523 | 1403562503993323523 |
| The persuadable voters that decide swing elections | 2021-06-10 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1403125049087856640 | 1403125049087856640 |
| Manchin is as far left as WV gets. | 2021-06-10 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1403107744387764224 | 1403107744387764224 |
| It's all about the persuadable middle. In 2022 the far | 2021-06-10 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1403044153357791249 | 1403044153357791249 |
| What does it take to avoid a filibuster? Propose a | 2021-06-10 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1403038161542914048 | 1403038161542914048 |
| GOP says NO to paycheck fairness. Presumably echoing | 2021-06-10 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1402786626095378437 | 1402786626095378437 |
| The GOP is in a bad way if it feels mortally threatened | 2021-06-06 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1401441162313945090 | 1401441162313945090 |
| Racism in Hawaii, too. | 2021-05-10 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1391634449184354308 | 1391634449184354308 |
| Florida weed politics - DeSantis, Stone, and Trump aren't | 2021-05-01 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1388485822953922564 | 1388485822953922564 |
| Why bipartisanship doesn't work any more - | 2021-04-28 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1387556547027345408 | 1387556547027345408 |
| Census looks like good news for GOP until you look at | 2021-04-26 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1386803495458656260 | 1386803495458656260 |
| What lessons will we have forgotten in time for the next | 2021-04-26 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1386796164188573697 | 1386796164188573697 |
| The cost of sunset provisions. | 2021-04-23 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1385397217268166665 | 1385397217268166665 |
| Joe Manchin is a Democrat in a red state. He's | 2021-03-26 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1375595341207138305 | 1375595341207138305 |
| Repentance for Clinton mistakes | 2021-03-18 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1372404435796721668 | 1372404435796721668 |
| How Schumer got the relief bill through his caucus. | 2021-03-09 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1369437254322708491 | 1369437254322708491 |
| Is Ohio up for grabs? | 2021-03-06 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1368213801808498691 | 1368213801808498691 |
| Progressive politics in Alabama? | 2021-02-26 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1365387137433042946 | 1365387137433042946 |
| How GOP took over state capitols. | 2021-02-19 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1362854257511211011 | 1362854257511211011 |
| Democrats have to act while they can. Republicans are | 2021-02-18 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1362478293421748226 | 1362478293421748226 |
| Time for a new caucus, if not a new party. | 2021-02-11 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1359670959096012803 | 1359670959096012803 |
| Democrats keep it together! | 2021-02-09 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1359139793603448832 | 1359139793603448832 |
| Organizing resolution, filibuster, covid relief, | 2021-01-24 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1353420243159269376 | 1353420243159269376 |
| The majority of Republican voters and politicians see | 2021-01-17 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1350693206485176326 | 1350693206485176326 |
| Money is the mother's milk of politics. Should | 2021-01-17 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1350688229570215937 | 1350688229570215937 |
| Do we need a most ludicrous senator award? | 2021-01-14 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1349523948296290306 | 1349523948296290306 |
| End filibuster? Expand Supreme Court? Manchin says no. | 2021-01-10 | 49 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1348418699191963649 | 1348418699191963649 |
| Minority leader McConnell! | 2021-01-07 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1347025701304614912 | 1347025701304614912 |
| More bitter partisans in the Senate? How will that | 2021-01-03 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1345813490749960192 | 1345813490749960192 |
| "fighting for you" - one more case of politicians saying | 2021-01-01 | 49 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1344811022788411392 | 1344811022788411392 |
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========== What it takes to survive Louisiana politics https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/28/bill-cassidy-louisiana-anti-trump-republican/ #PS1politics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 26 replies 1 time 2021-12-29 05:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476063125455523840 ========== Six challenges for 2022 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/28/six-resolutions-that-america-must-keep-2022/ #PS1politics ===== impress 21 time 2021-12-28 15:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475850293921206274 ========== Politicians like to take the money and give the blame. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/27/biden-initiatives-republicans-like-have-their-cake-eat-it-too/ #PS1politics ===== impress 25 time 2021-12-28 07:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475731454038462469 ========== Nine biggest political questions of 2022! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/24/9-biggest-political-questions-2022/ #PS1politics ===== impress 24 time 2021-12-28 07:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475729373231648769 ========== Are we headed toward regional federalism? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html Is America no longer governable? Was it ever? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/21/opinion/2021-essays-opinion.html#bouie #PS1politics ===== impress 42 time 2021-12-26 23:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475249381737525249 ========== Anybody want to be mayor of a large city? You're pretty much guaranteed to fail! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/16/second-hardest-job-politics/ #PS1politics ===== impress 35 time 2021-12-26 19:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475181233508212743 ========== What should be the Democratic program? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-message.html 1) future - child care, medical care, and education 2) past - medical care and survival for elderly 3) present - basic income support 4) paid for by a flat tax More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1565252883819225 #PS1politics ===== impress 26 time 2021-12-23 01:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473821731353550848 ========== How should Democrats preserve majority rule? 1) abolish filibuster for election reform 2) adopt an explicit class bias for working and middle classes - of all races and ethnicities - against the minority rule of a hereditary GOP nobility. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/08/opinion/trump-democrats-republicans.html #PS1politics ===== impress 35 time 2021-12-11 13:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469659704120864771 ========== Choose words carefully but focus on the substance. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/opinion/hispanic-voters-messaging.html #PS1politics ===== impress 12 time 2021-12-07 17:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1468265231847542787 ========== Maybe it's time to be explicit about class warfare - and who the real secret ruling elites are. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/05/five-themes-democrats-can-focus-to-boost-their-standing/ #PS1politics ===== impress 29 time 2021-12-05 16:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1467531488564420612 ========== Unclear on the concept! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/02/shutdown-looms-donna-edwards/ Unending drama and last-minute rescues are essentials of reality-TV. Voters keep electing reality-TV drama queens and kings. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1552552991755881 #PS1politics ===== impress 16 time 2021-12-04 00:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466932349514379266 ========== Bradley "talked about the tax reform law he’d written and his plan to rid politics of corrosive corporate money" - two issues in which most voters have no knowledge and no interest. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/03/bill-bradley-reticent-politician-takes-stage-reminds-what-we-lose-by-choosing-celebrities/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1552542478423599 #PS1politics ===== impress 14 time 2021-12-04 00:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466926821094555648 ========== More on the barely-averted government shutdown - expect more of the same, from the same attention-seeking clowns. There's no downside for the party out of power. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-shutdown/2021/12/02/8bae48e8-53ad-11ec-9267-17ae3bde2f26_story.html The upside is that more Democrats are coming to terms with ending filibuster. #PS1politics ===== impress 32 time 2021-12-03 03:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466611672349511680 ========== GOP senators would rather shut down the government in the face of omicron, Russia, China, Iran - than accept vaccination mandates. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/12/02/government-funding-shutdown-vaccine/ But it plays well with the Trumpist base! #PS1politics ===== impress 46 time 2021-12-02 15:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466425892108845056 ========== The price of doing something, or even trying, is generating opposition. And if you don't, you'll get opposed for doing nothing. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/18/opinion/biden-infrastructure-stimulus-bill.html The Reagan-Biden analogy - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/opinion/biden-reagan-approval.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1551105318567315 #PS1politics ===== impress 25 time 2021-12-01 19:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466126332635484163 ========== Any leader that gets significant change enacted can expect to be punished in the next election by the people that didn't like the change. But history remembers the leaders that effected positive change. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/18/opinion/biden-infrastructure-stimulus-bill.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1543244716020042 #PS1politics ===== impress 26 time 2021-11-20 00:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461854200871014407 ========== "To succeed in politics, you need to make your opponent respond to you" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/14/why-do-democrats-let-republicans-set-terms-debate/ Democrats need to call out Trumpist Dixiecrat minority rule relentlessly, the way GOP talks about critical race theory, until it's part of the common vocabulary. #PS1politics ===== impress 17 time 2021-11-14 19:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459966717963034629 ========== Youngkin wouldn't let a dropout with no financial experience run his hedge fund. But he feels qualified to govern. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/08/glenn-youngkin-won-pragmatic-conservative-how-will-he-change-virginia-policy/ He'll find every move is under intense scrutiny by ambitious pols eager to pounce on any misstep - and that's just the GOP! #PS1politics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 25 time 2021-11-10 00:26 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458229539352444931 ========== What's a Democrat? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democrats-biden-virginia-new-jersey-infrastructure/2021/11/07/d5811f7e-3e43-11ec-bfad-8283439871ec_story.html Thanks to Trump, the answer is easy. Democrats are the fact-based party; the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP is the fantasy-based party. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1535152776829236 #PS1politics ===== impress 36 time 2021-11-08 03:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1457554388008927238 ========== Historically, most farmers and ranchers voted Republican. The difference is that now they ALL do. Can the Democrats respond effectively when voters vote against their own interest? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sundaytake-democrats-losing-rural/2021/11/06/3f316194-3f0d-11ec-bfad-8283439871ec_story.html #PS1politics ===== engage 2 engage-rate 7% impress 29 likes 1 time 2021-11-07 06:24 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1457232553354547202 ========== A guy was proselytizing for the LaRouche PAC outside a post office today, with posters saying "Trump can't do it by himself"! LaRouche was a perpetual presidential candidate and he still has a PAC! https://www.larouchepac.com/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1529184900759357 #PS1politics ===== engage 2 engage-rate 5% expands 1 impress 38 time 2021-10-30 04:31 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454305008044822529 ========== There are two possible paths to winning close elections - maximizing base turnout and persuading swing voters. The ideal is to do both, but that is seldom possible, because those groups decide differently. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/26/campaigning-middle-out-wont-save-democrats/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1527531077591406 #PS1politics ===== impress 21 time 2021-10-28 00:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453518359589392385 ========== AZ is not WV. There are limits to what a Democrat can get away with. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/us/politics/sinema-veterans-resign.html #PS1politics ===== impress 84 time 2021-10-21 18:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451251553562595334 ========== As usual, control of Congress in2022 will be largely up to persuadable voters, who just vote their pocketbooks. So the primary GOP strategy is to wreck the economy as much as possible. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-elections-house-elections-congress-5ac0ececeadbb46895e67b48db5bbcf7 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1523147321363115 #PS1politics ===== impress 77 time 2021-10-21 17:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451245348895133696 ========== Off to Paris! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/15/what-does-sinema-want-biden-agenda/ #PS1politics ===== impress 72 time 2021-10-15 23:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449160084106330113 ========== A positive view of Kyrsten Sinema. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/opinion/kyrsten-sinema-democratic-party-senate.html But by protecting minority rule by defending filibuster even against voting rights, where there is no bipartisan ground, she might as well be a Trumpist. Filibuster discourages bipartisanship. #PS1politics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 98 time 2021-10-15 13:00 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448997310273241089 ========== Homeowners associations in LA - a model for progressives everywhere! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/opinion/california-housing-renters.html Get up, suit up, show up, at every boring little meeting. #PS1politics ===== impress 111 time 2021-10-15 03:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448857027862675460 ========== Another attempt by never-Trumpist traditional conservatives to define themselves. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/opinion/2022-house-senate-trump.html Is there a significant voter base and donor base for traditional conservative values? More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1516162935394887 #PS1politics ===== impress 81 time 2021-10-11 17:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447618574437076996 ========== Fall will test GOP in Congress https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-congress-filibusters-27ee5558714da1347b68d58952cc137b Can they save the filibuster, avoid being blamed for shutting down the government, and still prevent Democrats from passing any popular legislation? It would be a lost cause unless Democrats keep infighting. #PS1politics ===== impress 84 time 2021-10-11 13:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447555317017939972 ========== Can't tell the players without a scorecard! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/10/democrats-republicans-biden-budget-fights/ And can't always tell WHY X wants Y, because X is often not fully forthcoming about motivations - because the motivations involving campaign donations don't sound or look good in broad daylight. #PS1politics ===== impress 15 time 2021-10-10 21:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447310936352583684 ========== As Wisconsin goes, so goes the country? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/08/wisconsin-polarization-democrats-republicans/ #PS1politics ===== impress 13 time 2021-10-10 21:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447307922321514497 ========== The Constitution stacks the deck for rural states run by GOP. https://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ What's the best way for Democrats to overcome that? What do persuadable voters in swing states really care about? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/opinion/democrats-david-shor-education-polarization.html #PS1politics ===== impress 28 time 2021-10-09 05:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446707793419927556 ========== A Republican caucusing with Democrats https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-10-04/kyrsten-sinema-shaking-up-democrats-gop-arizona Perhaps - seeing demographic change - she wants to retain bipartisan support of suburban women and retain GOP major donors. #PS1politics ===== impress 188 time 2021-10-06 20:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445847215746863107 ========== Let Sinema and Machin coddle their major donors as we try to find out what they WILL vote for. Manchin is as liberal as we can hope for from WV, but the Democratic Party can do better in AZ next time. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/opinion/sinema-kyrsten.html #PS1politics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% expands 1 impress 223 time 2021-10-05 02:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445214204047159297 ========== Looks like Democrats have lost Florida to the GOP. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/facing-historic-challenge-florida-democrats-stumble-against-desantis/2021/09/30/bb2cdc76-1d32-11ec-bcb8-0cb135811007_story.html It doesn't take much. Anti-Castro Cubans can make the winning difference in statewide elections. #PS1politics ===== impress 124 time 2021-10-04 20:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445116735082749959 ========== Senator Cinema https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/02/opinion/kyrsten-sinema-congress.html Is she as devoted to preserving minority rule as the GOP? Maybe she should run as one. #PS1politics ===== impress 147 time 2021-10-04 01:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444833037032701953 ========== “The absence of pragmatism among Democrats is as troubling as the absence of principle among Republicans.” But supply chain problems for courage are bipartisan. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/opinion/liz-cheney-democrats-democracy.html #PS1politics ===== impress 30 time 2021-09-30 19:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1443661788340359170 ========== Considered point by point, voters support Biden's plans. But GOP donors do not since they know they will have to pay for them. So its prospects are doubtful. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/opinion/biden-manchin-infrastructure-trillions.html Senators can't say they're opposed for fear of losing campaign funding. #PS1politics ===== impress 86 time 2021-09-17 03:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1438712253507719169 ========== Is Biden suddenly unpopular because of his actions or inactions https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/opinion/biden-failed-afghanistan.html or because we have a distorted historical view of how American politics works based on the 1950's? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/04/opinion/biden-job-approval-rating.html #PS1politics ===== impress 37 time 2021-09-09 00:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1435763769393614848 ========== Too many moving pieces? https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/09/08/democrats-september-debt-ceiling-reconciliation/ Too many divergent opinions? It will be a miracle if the Democrats can agree on something to pass in the House. #PS1politics ===== impress 28 time 2021-09-08 22:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1435739271504154627 ========== Democrats were probably going to lose control of Congress no matter what. Afghanistan didn't change that. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/30/democrats-calm-down-afghanistan-is-mess-its-not-end-biden-presidency/ Now the question is what they will do with the time they have left. #PS1politics ===== impress 49 time 2021-08-31 02:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1432527113450516480 ========== Why are there endless budget crises? https://www.rollcall.com/2020/12/18/congress-to-take-up-two-day-cr-ahead-of-midnight-funding-deadline/ Passing a law right before a deadline insures that most members never have a chance to read it. But that's perfect if you need to carry a bill for a major donor. More at https://facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1318476708496845 #PS1politics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 56 time 2021-08-27 16:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1431285746539761664 ========== Does the Democratic leadership know what it's doing? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/12/democrats-achievements-biden-pelosi-schumer-infrastructure/ Sometimes experience counts. #PS1politics ===== impress 48 time 2021-08-13 03:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1426030416851439616 ========== Once again the country is held hostage to the debt ceiling and the end of the fiscal year. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/08/09/treasury-yellen-debt-ceiling/ It's ridiculous, but legislators love the chance to grandstand and play chicken with the national credit rating. #PS1politics ===== impress 53 time 2021-08-09 14:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1424744290035507200 ========== Utterly dysfunctional government - a pillar of minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/08/us-government-is-designed-failure-new-study-shows-its-getting-steadily-worse/ #PS1politics ===== impress 47 time 2021-08-09 14:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1424742934751039488 ========== Debt ceiling politics - a big game of chicken. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/05/mitch-mcconnell-is-threatening-more-mayhem-democrats-plan-call-his-bluff/ But most voters don't bother trying to understand the many complicated hidden motives. #PS1politics ===== impress 36 time 2021-08-05 19:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1423366247069061122 ========== It's still the same old story - holding the good credit of the United States hostage to their goal of cutting Social Security and Medicare - same old GOP. They don't care that the Democrats refrained when they were in the minority. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/07/21/republicans-debt-ceiling/ #PS1politics ===== impress 33 time 2021-07-22 15:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1418233572574433281 ========== West Virginia politics affects everybody! One way to advance Biden's agenda would be to put a tax on fracked gas so thermal coal is competitive again. But that's too high a price to pay - as the Pacific Northwest discovered this week. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/29/joe-manchin-is-trying-outrun-realignment/ #PS1politics ===== impress 56 time 2021-06-30 14:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1410243933481865225 ========== Will tax return disclosure reduce the number of joke candidates and shady characters? We can only hope. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/06/26/running-for-governor-in-californias-recall-plan-on-coughing-up-5-years-of-tax-returns/ #PS1politics ===== impress 24 time 2021-06-29 03:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1409719369920180228 ========== It's about time! If Congress has to agree to declare war, we'll never declare another war again, except against the other party. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/aumf-repeal-congress/2021/06/17/1bd1ec70-cf76-11eb-a7f1-52b8870bef7c_story.html But most wars historically have been motivated by domestic political considerations more than external threats. #PS1politics ===== impress 38 time 2021-06-18 00:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1405691311525535746 ========== How Manchin fits into WV politics. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/us/politics/joe-manchin-west-virginia.html Any plausible alternative is worse. #PS1politics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 38 likes 1 time 2021-06-12 03:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1403562503993323523 ========== The persuadable voters that decide swing elections moves left gradually - as they have for almost a century. The progressive voices cry in the wilderness but don't see all their dreams fulfilled, but slow progress happens anyway. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/10/moderate-democrats-are-winning-elections-progressives-are-winning-war/ #PS1politics ===== impress 47 time 2021-06-10 23:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1403125049087856640 ========== Manchin is as far left as WV gets. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/06/09/manchin-filibuster-bonus-senate-seat/ Be glad to complain about him instead of any plausible Republican replacement. #PS1politics ===== impress 46 time 2021-06-10 21:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1403107744387764224 ========== It's all about the persuadable middle. In 2022 the far right will be out in force to support Trump's candidates. The far left better not support Trump by staying home. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mcauliffe-virginia-new-jersey-democratic-primaries/2021/06/09/d3f37e56-c943-11eb-81b1-34796c7393af_story.html #PS1politics ===== impress 44 time 2021-06-10 17:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1403044153357791249 ========== What does it take to avoid a filibuster? Propose a bill that Republican donors like and then claim no credit for it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/09/believe-it-or-not-senate-actually-passed-very-ambitious-bill/ #PS1politics ===== impress 42 time 2021-06-10 17:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1403038161542914048 ========== GOP says NO to paycheck fairness. Presumably echoing their major donors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/06/09/gender-pay-gap-minimum-wage/ #PS1politics ===== impress 45 time 2021-06-10 00:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1402786626095378437 ========== The GOP is in a bad way if it feels mortally threatened by the VICE president! Democrats never worried that much about Pence. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/05/opinion/sunday/kamala-harris-vp.html #PS1politics ===== impress 46 time 2021-06-06 07:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1401441162313945090 ========== Racism in Hawaii, too. https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-micronesia-police-shootings-race-and-ethnicity-74305f44d1efed56f96de57daebf5fd9 #PS1politics ===== impress 53 time 2021-05-10 06:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1391634449184354308 ========== Florida weed politics - DeSantis, Stone, and Trump aren't far away. https://apnews.com/article/health-business-government-and-politics-48a3df69635f27dcba31e2339c066a91 A perfect example of what GOP used to call the evils of government regulation. #PS1politics ===== impress 48 time 2021-05-01 13:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1388485822953922564 ========== Why bipartisanship doesn't work any more - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/opinion/joe-biden-bipartisanship.html It's because there are no more bipartisans! https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-congress.html By they way, Dixiecrat-Republicanism was already proposed in 1951! #PS1politics ===== impress 38 time 2021-04-28 23:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1387556547027345408 ========== Census looks like good news for GOP until you look at details. https://apnews.com/article/census-congressional-districts-7dd29f02c7d68038920c7e1a23f842a1 GOP will become a minority in most red states, as they already are in some. They've got all their big guns set up to gerrymander control against the immigrants from blue states. #PS1politics ===== impress 81 time 2021-04-26 22:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1386803495458656260 ========== What lessons will we have forgotten in time for the next pandemic? https://www.ocregister.com/2021/04/25/will-lessons-learned-from-this-pandemic-soften-the-blow-during-the-next-one/ The most important one - don't expect much in a crisis from politicians who put their career above the public good. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#leadership #PS1politics ===== impress 80 time 2021-04-26 21:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1386796164188573697 ========== The cost of sunset provisions. Every renewal allows the opposition to demand an additional concession. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/biden-has-an-opportunity-to-ensure-an-fdr-like-legacy-and-he-might-blow-it/2021/04/22/3a20e842-a399-11eb-a774-7b47ceb36ee8_story.html #PS1politics ===== impress 40 time 2021-04-23 00:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1385397217268166665 ========== Joe Manchin is a Democrat in a red state. He's mastered the art of delivering for his constituents. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/26/secret-strategy-that-explains-how-joe-manchin-wields-his-power/ Sometimes when he seems like a Republican, Democrats should consider what real West Virginia Trumpists are like. #PS1politics ===== impress 42 time 2021-03-26 23:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1375595341207138305 ========== Repentance for Clinton mistakes https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/14/opinion/democrats-bill-clinton.html Don' t expect the modern GOP to admit any mistakes, much less repent or learn from them; instead hit back twice as hard! #PS1politics ===== impress 56 time 2021-03-18 04:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1372404435796721668 ========== How Schumer got the relief bill through his caucus. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/09/us/politics/chuck-schumer-senate-majority-leader.html #PS1politics ===== impress 32 time 2021-03-09 23:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1369437254322708491 ========== Is Ohio up for grabs? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/06/us/politics/ohio-senate-race.html It depends a lot on progress against the virus and toward economic recovery. #PS1politics ===== impress 34 time 2021-03-06 14:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1368213801808498691 ========== Progressive politics in Alabama? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/opinion/the-south-is-more-than-its-shading-on-an-electoral-map.html It's endured despite suppression. #PS1politics ===== impress 41 time 2021-02-26 19:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1365387137433042946 ========== How GOP took over state capitols. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/18/republicans-now-enjoy-unmatched-power-states-it-was-40-year-effort/ They used organizing, gerrymandering, voter suppression, propaganda, and dark money, helped by the outrage-entertainment branch of the media. To recover, Democrats have to at least match their organizing. #PS1politics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 34 time 2021-02-19 19:59 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1362854257511211011 ========== Democrats have to act while they can. Republicans are fine doing nothing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/18/democrats-are-taking-new-steps-go-big-they-can-go-even-bigger/ Even earmarks are looking better as a means for passing legislation. Would it have been better if the 13th amendment had failed for lack of Democrat votes? #PS1politics ===== impress 33 time 2021-02-18 19:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1362478293421748226 ========== Time for a new caucus, if not a new party. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/10/what-if-republicans-actually-listened/ Not GOP vs Democrats but fantasy vs fact, and noisy public performance vs quiet productive legislating. The factual GOP legislators could form their own caucus. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1353303558347493 #PS1politics ===== impress 63 time 2021-02-11 01:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1359670959096012803 ========== Democrats keep it together! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/us/politics/joe-biden-democratic-party.html Don't be like Republicans which have split implicitly into a fact-based policy party and a fantasy-based cult of personality. If the split becomes explicit, neither chunk will have much national influence. #PS1politics ===== impress 48 time 2021-02-09 13:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1359139793603448832 ========== Organizing resolution, filibuster, covid relief, impeachment... They all circle warily - how can we get as much as possible and give as little as possible? No senator wants to wear two bulleyes, one on his right side and one on his left. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/unity-challenge-biden-republicans-covid/2021/01/23/d95d3f5e-5cff-11eb-b8bd-ee36b1cd18bf_story.html #PS1politics ===== impress 54 time 2021-01-24 19:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1353420243159269376 ========== The majority of Republican voters and politicians see nothing wrong in the events since Biden's election, except that they failed to undo the election. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-leaves-behind-a-republican-party-both-broken-and-still-in-his-grip/2021/01/16/f7496dfe-5781-11eb-a08b-f1381ef3d207_story.html Romney and Cheney and McConnell really don't belong any more. What do their donors say? #PS1politics ===== impress 49 time 2021-01-17 06:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1350693206485176326 ========== Money is the mother's milk of politics. Should Republican senators be worried? What if the bitter fight over the essence of the Republican Party goes on for years? https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-capitol-siege-senate-elections-richard-burr-ac1ad237047035403060dadb4b80f90e #PS1politics ===== impress 40 time 2021-01-17 06:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1350688229570215937 ========== Do we need a most ludicrous senator award? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/lindsey-graham-had-a-lock-on-most-ludicrous-senator--until-josh-hawley-pounced/2021/01/13/e85c278c-5506-11eb-a931-5b162d0d033d_story.html #PS1politics ===== impress 22 time 2021-01-14 01:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1349523948296290306 ========== End filibuster? Expand Supreme Court? Manchin says no. https://www.rollcall.com/2020/11/09/joe-manchin-kills-dreams-of-expanding-supreme-court-eliminating-the-filibuster/ End of discussion. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/senate-biden-democrats-control/2021/01/08/ab573e1c-5137-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html #PS1politics ===== engage 2 engage-rate 4% impress 49 time 2021-01-10 23:57 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1348418699191963649 ========== Minority leader McConnell! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/opinion/georgia-senate-election.html He's had years of experience blocking legislation, even as minority leader. #PS1politics ===== impress 38 time 2021-01-07 03:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1347025701304614912 ========== More bitter partisans in the Senate? How will that help? https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/senate-trump-republicans-schumer/2021/01/02/8a266aca-4d08-11eb-a9f4-0e668b9772ba_story.html We need to get Congress functional again. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-congress.html #PS1politics ===== impress 36 time 2021-01-03 19:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1345813490749960192 ========== "fighting for you" - one more case of politicians saying one thing and doing the opposite. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/31/why-so-many-candidates-tell-us-theyll-fight/ #PS1politics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 49 likes 1 time 2021-01-01 01:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1344811022788411392