Scott Sloofman
@ScottSloofman
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Celebrities talking about politics remains undefeated. France has a 14 week abortion ban
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Really embarrassing mistake by Schumer. Justice Marshall joined the court in 1967.
.@SenSchumer: "Until 1981, this powerful body, the Supreme Court, was all White men. Imagine. America wasn't all White men in 1981, or ever. Under President Biden and this Senate majority, we're taking historic steps to make the courts look more like the country they serve."
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The Republican Party and the Democratic Party divide summed up in two tweets
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Tantrum: Schumer Blocks Bipartisan Hearing On Counterintelligence Over SCOTUS Objections
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Every time this White House tells people to pay no attention to GDP numbers it only underscores further how much they’re freaking out about tomorrows number
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Biden completely contradicting everything the CDC has said all week.
Pres. Biden: "Breakthrough cases remain rare and almost all are mild cases.". "In fact, virtually all hospitalizations and deaths are among the unvaccinated."
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I feel very strongly that John Delaney dropping out does not merit a push alert
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Alternative headline: Senate Democrats to small businesses: Drop Dead.
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CNN cuts away from Biden to highlight the "Dow taking a total beating.". "Feels like it's hard to be celebratory"
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I’m sure CNN meant to publish a “news analysis” piece about how racist the filibuster was last year when Democrats filibustered Sen. Scott’s police reform bill. They probably just forgot.
What's a filibuster? Democrats may finally ax a relic of our racist past | Analysis
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If it wasn’t for John Wilkes Booth’s actions Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln’s night at Ford’s Theater would have been unmatched.
Opinion by Jennifer Rubin: If it weren’t for inflation, this president's economic performance would be unmatched.
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Dow futures immediately sank 5%, 954 points, on chaos in DC over stimulus. "Limit down" meaning trading halted. Nasdaq, S&P also down about 5 percent.
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So the WH chief of staff/PM feels that Democrats get to decide what Republicans should think. Interesting
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Police reform could have been done last year if Senate Democrats didn’t filibuster Sen. Scott’s police reform bill.
Pres. Biden on the timeline for police reform talks: "Let’s get it done next month, by the first anniversary of George Floyd’s death.".
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He’s not even trying at this point
Dark money takes away voters' right to know who is talking to them and what's going on in their democracy.
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Biden just said raising the debt limit should be bipartisan yet he opposed raising the debt limit 3 times as a senator
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Whoever at the White House was stunned by Sen. Sinema’s floor speech needs to find a new line of work
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Sen. Biden, 05/23/05: "The nuclear option would transform the Senate from the so-called cooling saucer our Founding Fathers talked about to cool the passions of the day to a pure majoritarian body like a Parliament. ".
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Congratulations on those beautiful twins! You didn’t miss much, the Senate still hasn’t taken up the Covid relief bill. .
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Cory Booker told Politico he doesn't know much about Demand Justice. Yet he's appeared at Demand Justice events
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2021 Stacey Abrams vs. 2018 Stacey Abrams on Voter ID laws. Stacey Abrams today: “no one has ever objected to having to prove who you are to vote.”. Stacey Abrams in 2018: voter ID is designed to "scare people out of voting.".
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They're so pro-police that they uniformly want to defund it
Even the Squad is more pro-police than these Republicans, Dana @Milbank writes
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Nancy "Nothing Is Better Than Something" Pelosi does not handle well being exposed as the biggest roadblock to getting more aid to workers, schools, small businesses, and hospitals by Wolf Blitzer.
Wolf Blitzer grilling Pelosi on why she won't take $1.8T deal. Reads Ro Khanna tweet. Pelosi: "I don’t know why you’re always an apologist and many of your colleagues are apologists for the Republican position-- Ro Khanna, that’s nice. That isn’t what we’re going to do.".
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“I was very gratified that the margin was so big. That people were able to look at the individual,” she said. “They were smart enough to reject the outright lies that Chuck Schumer and his PAC have hoisted.”
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A vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Klain from President Biden
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This is how senior members of the British government see Joe Biden:. "looked gaga"."completely mad" ."doolally" (no clue what that means but it can't be good)
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The Inflation Reduction Act. won’t reduce inflation at all, according to a University of Pennsylvania study
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The more Americans hear about Biden's plan to have the IRS spy on your bank account, the more people oppose it
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Senator Warren filibuster multiple bills last year.
Warren: "The filibuster has deep roots in racism, and it should not be permitted to serve that function, or to create or to create a veto for the minority. In a democracy, it's majority rules."
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This is literally fake news. From the article:. "No carve out of the filibuster – period," he said. "For any subject."
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The House is such a weird place. Who are all these people? What do they do all day?.
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Rep. Clyburn’s false claim that ‘no Democrat’ has opposed voter ID laws - The Washington Post
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So to sum up according to CBS’ twisted anti-journalism logic:. Giving the questions to your interview subject before the interview: good. Asking tough questions about a complicated subject: bad. Glad we got that all cleared up.
In an upcoming podcast trailer, Ta-Nehisi Coates praised Gayle King and said she gave him a head's up about some issues she planned to press him on. But King never got to ask a single question.
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Klain’s new favorite columnist? . Boot argues in the column: “I wish critics would show more appreciation for the difficult balancing act that Biden must pull off.”
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Unanimous!.
The Judiciary Committee favorably reports out Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court, 12 yes votes, 10 not voting.
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Ron Klain just said raising corporate taxes would create jobs. Would love to hear the logic behind that claim.
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48 Senators and $4.95 at Cups will get you a grilled cheese and that's about it.
2 senators cannot be allowed to defeat what 48 senators and 210 House members want. We must stand with the working families of our country. We must combat climate change. We must delay passing the Infrastructure Bill until we pass a strong Reconciliation Bill.
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The easiest job in Washington DC is Democratic flack. Perfect example of being born on third base and thinking you hit a triple.
@danpfeiffer says this all the time, but Democrats and especially the Democratic nominee can no longer have a strategy that involves communicating to voters through the nonpartisan media. We have to find ways around it.
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PSAKI: "I'm not a spokeswoman for the teachers unions". Could have fooled me.
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“The left is at risk of repeating a costly mistake: Assuming they’ll always be in power. As Mr. McConnell warned in 2013: “You’ll regret this, and you may regret it a lot sooner than you think.”
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In the first paragraph New York Magazine says Israel got what's coming to them on 10/7 and in the second Ta-Nehisi Coates says he can't blame Hamas for what they did on 10/7. Moral abominations both of them
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Today is supposedly the day Caesar crossed the Rubicon. Hopefully that is not an ill omen for what Chuck Schumer is threatening to do to our Senate this week.
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Yes Leader McConnell been very quiet about judges
In an excerpt from her book, @jackiekcalmes examines how Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell quietly installed hundreds of federal judges, waging an insidious war on the judicial branch bound to shape American life for decades to come—and not for the better.
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Can anyone ask Sen. Durbin what changed from 2018?. “Well, I can tell you that would be the end of the Senate as it was originally devised and created going back to our Founding Fathers. We have to acknowledge our respect for the minority, and that is what the Senate tries to do".
From the pool. Durbin: McConnell has institutionalized the filibuster. It is now the standard in the Senate instead of the exception, which means that virtually every major need 60 votes to pass.
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Hear me out. What about a bill that has $300 UI, $105 billion for schools, $16 billion for testing, $20 billion for vaccines and therapeutics, and billions more for a second round of PPP?.
They said they don't want a bad or meager bill, and don't want to undermine Pelosi's negotiating position -- but also suggested a bill extending UI and a other key aid programs would be better than nothing.
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“But now? I’d like to hear anyone make the argument that McConnell isn’t one of the most effective legislative leaders in modern American history. Republicans know it, Democrats know it”
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So President Biden's logic is that *Democrats* abused the filibuster last year and that’s why it must be reformed
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Echos what Gov. Hogan said on CBS. Biden isn’t producing more tests they’re just redistributing tests .
Here's the start of a letter from our school superintendent that came through last night at 9pm.
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House Democrats have been sitting on a bill to expand SCOTUS protection for a month.
BREAKING: California man taken into custody near Justice Kavanaugh’s home with weapon
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House Democrats Revolt From Pelosi’s Failed Leadership On COVID Relief
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This might be the best one yet.
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Don’t let Tracy Stone-Manning near that tree!.
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Obama failed in many areas of his presidency but hard to think of one he failed in worse than his Middle East foreign policy. The Iran deal, the rise of ISIS, Syria, and Libya. All disasters.
In 2015, Team Obama argued that Israeli opposition to Iran deal would isolate it. Instead, after two major peace deals with Arab countries, it's never been more integrated. Check NYT from 5 yrs ago & now:
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Gov. Hogan was governor for 8 years and left office with a 70% approval rating but I guess those consultants need to do something to justify all the money of yours they’re spending.
the future Larry Hogan promises vs. the one he can deliver. and even that might be overestimating him.
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Sincerely hope PM Klain has someone doing his RTing for him. Just an unreal volume of RTs considering he is ostensibly running the executive branch.
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Anytime you can force your moderates to take a politically disadvantageous show vote to protect your boss from getting primaried by a two term socialist congresswoman you gotta do it.
Sen. Durbin, Democratic whip, tells reporters it’s his understanding that there will be a vote on possible rules changes despite long odds. “It’s important people be on the record”. “It’s my understanding there will be a vote at some point”. Unclear which proposal will get vote.
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.@JohnCornyn explaining why, if you truly view the border situation as dire as you say it is, waiting a whole year to start to the process of fixing it "makes no sense"
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The idea that the reconciliation process is fine for spending $5 trillion but not for paying for it makes no sense.
Biden does not seem open to the possibility of doing the debt limit via reconciliation. "It's an incredibly complicated and cumbersome process".
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The West Virginia Coal Association says Joe Manchin has betrayed miners
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My Build Back Better Act is going to reduce the deficit by more than $100 billion over ten years. It’s going to lower costs, create jobs, and rebuild our economy. Let’s get this done.
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Voters of your state > angry Twitter liberals on the coasts.
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These anonymous Biden officials are starting to sound like Senate Republicans during his confirmation process
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Pelosi, Schumer Dumped ‘Police’ From Coronavirus Remarks After George Floyd Protests
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A Democrat flack would also omit the bills Democrats filibustered last year.
Some recent bills that were defeated by filibuster along with the number of votes they got in the Senate. Jan. 6 commission: 54 votes.DREAM Act: 55 votes.Manchin-Toomey: 54 votes.DISCLOSE Act: 59 votes.Paycheck Fairness Act: 58 votes.
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‘Judge Amy Coney Barrett Has All The Qualities Of A First-Class Supreme Court Justice’
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President Biden: "We have to get the message across in a way that is understandable to people"
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The Vice President’s office continues to run like a well-oiled machine
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Looking out for small businesses.
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Mayor Pete getting a documentary on his campaign after winning zero primaries is very on brand for the first millennial presidential candidate.
After covering Buttigieg for years I watched a screener of the new 'Mayor Pete' documentary that follows his presidential campaign. Here are 8 things that struck me. via @businessinsider.
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The giants have been an embarrassment for the last five years but at least we’re not the jets.
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SEN. McCONNELL: “I recognize it may seem odd that a Senate majority leader opposes a proposal to increase his own power…. But my Republican colleagues and I have not and will not vandalize this core tradition for short-term gain."
If Senate Republicans need, at some point in the future, to abolish the filibuster in order to increase their political power, they will. Doesn't matter if Democrats do it first.
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Ties are bad. That should be a bipartisan position.
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Comes after Pelosi again said nothing was better than something. Her moderates clearly disagree.
Frontlines Dems are pretty furious right now. Rep. Cindy Axne, who just voted against the Dems latest relief bill: “This is going nowhere. this is just a vote to make people feel good. I want to help people. That means sitting at the table and getting a damn deal.”.
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If Schumer was this wrong in March, why would anyone believe what he and Democrats are saying now.
Sen. Schumer on March 12th: “I do not think the dangers of inflation, at least in the near-term, are very real.”
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what changed 🤔
@MEPFuller Please don’t spread this “going on vacation” crap. It’s true there aren’t votes next week. But you know what district work periods are like. And you also know that COVID work will continue in earnest next week.
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McConnell breaks Senate record for longest serving leader - POLITICO
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So many reporters going through the five stages of grief live on Twitter. But sure the media is harsher on Democrats than Republicans.
A lot to process on the Manchin news but, from a substantive standpoint, it's just objectively devastating for the planet. The last best chance at climate change legislation is gone.
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The tax hikes funding Biden's reckless tax and spending spree would amount to the largest tax increase on the American people since 1968
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President Biden and the Democrats have lost the New York Times Editorial Board. Maybe now they'll accept that their position is untenable
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Manchin Reconciliation Package Includes Policy He Once Called ‘Ludicrous’
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Senate Republicans didn’t include even a single diversity study for the cannabis industry like the Speaker’s bill so I can see why she’d say this.
Pelosi on GOP coronavirus bill: It really is pathetic. Whatever this is, it isn't serious. We will continue to see going forward. this is wrong.
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January 15th: Q: “Can you tell us a couple things on scheduling? Is there any update on when you might send the Article of Impeachment to the Senate?” .HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI: “No.”.
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“Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell was right on Wednesday to call on Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats to pass the bill immediately.”
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Democrat says Americans should support Democrats. Breaking news.
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