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She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

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“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

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… gradually, and then suddenly.

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Even Dana Milbank

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He was pretty awful a few years ago but I guess a rising Trump lifts a lot of mediocre boats :

This had to be one of the most successful failures — one of the most triumphant defeats — in modern political history.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) clearly failed in the stated aim of her four-week delay in sending impeachment articles to the Senate: to withhold the articles and the naming of impeachment managers until, as she put it last month, “we see the process that is set forth in the Senate.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) didn’t reveal his impeachment resolution and made no commitment to bring forth witnesses or documents.

But Pelosi’s delay seems to have blunted any hope President Trump’s defenders had of dismissing the charges without a trial. Before the speaker’s gambit, McConnell pledged that “there will be no difference between the president’s position and our position as to how to handle this.” Trump is now calling for a dismissal, but Senate Republicans say they won’t allow that.

This is about as close as a beltway asshole who treats politics like sports talk radio — picking winners and losers for everything, focusing on personality instead of performance — is going to get to a nuanced perspective. When you only control the House, you’re “winning” if you’ve been able to leverage your power to make the Senate do more then they were otherwise going to do, and get some positive attention. Both of those goals were accomplished, even though we’re ultimately going to “lose” on conviction.

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    MattF

    This happens to be a situation where the horse-race metaphor has political weight. Now McConnell doesn’t fully control what happens in the Senate, and that was his strong point.

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    PsiFighter37

    @Cheryl Rofer: Wonder if Amash gets a spot. Also, there was talk Nadler was going to be one – TBH, he wouldn’t be one of my picks, even if he is Judiciary chair. We need folks like Schiff – folks who are articulate, clear-cut in how they speak. Ted Lieu would be a great choice, but what do I know.

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    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    It’s almost as if Nancy knows what she’s doing and all of her critics keep turning out to be wrong.

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    SFAW

    I’m hoping for newly-installed Representative Hamala Karris, who looks as if she could be the identical twin sister of CA’s junior Senator. I heard she was pretty sharp.

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    SFAW

    @rikyrah:

    Didn’t Appeals put a stay on that, shortly after he issued his contempt citation/ruling/whatever? Or have they lifted that stay? [I don’t know, I haven’t been following it very closely.]

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    Cheryl Rofer

    I was away from the screen for most of five hours last night and have about three days of catching up to do

    ETA: I think I’m gonna have breakfast now.

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    OzarkHillbilly

    They can NOT give Nancy credit for a victory if it is not total and complete annihilation of her opponent.

    @SFAW: As of this AM.

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    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I don’t read him regularly, but enough to suspect the trump era has slapped at least some of the stupid out of Mr “Mad Bitch Beer” (wasn’t that it?). This seems like a pretty direct slap at his former sidekick– in that very video– Chris Cillizza, who was getting dragged from one end of twitter to the other for declaring Nancy Pelosi’s defeat yesterday.

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