Discussion: Former Harry Reid Aide Chortles Over McConnell's Epic Fail

Respectfully, I donā€™t think this is a very good article.
What is the reason for posting all of the tweets which anyone can read on Twitter?
That said, it was a great thread, which I read earlier.

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I can see re-doing the tweets, but twice each?

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Might be a meaningless word, but have you ever notice how often they use it? Listening to a Republican go on and on about ā€œleaderā€ in an interview is like listening to a local sportscaster trip over themselves to see how often the word ā€œcoachā€ can be used in each sentence when they are interviewing one of reporting on one.

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As I Kentuckian, I can say I had no problem with the double tweets. I despise McConnell that much.

I donā€™t mind links to good twitter stuff as I hardly ever look at mine unless some one points out something that might interest me.

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Last night when word of the tweets came out, I went to read them It was annoying to have to scroll down, find post number one and then scroll up to follow the entire thread. So reprinting it here is a big improvement. Repeating it twice was possibly part of the embed code. Iā€™ve embedded tweets and seen more than I thought I would in the product. When that happens, I have no idea how to edit the original code, so I just leave it. I suspect whoever did this article did the same thing. Embedded the tweets and then took a screenshot so they could post it.

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Agreed. and the verb ā€œchortlesā€ is completely inapposite. Adamsā€™ was a thoughtful, detailed, and well-informed takedown, not a gloat.

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ā€œLeaderā€ McConnell has really failed at his job, itā€™s on display for everyone to see. But fortunately for him the senate rules on how to proceed with a bill are arcane, no one much outside of senators and their staff understand. So when he issues a statement at the end of the debacle saying heā€™s going to try to put a bill forward to completely repeal and get back to it in two years, itā€™s nothing but bullshit. It canā€™t be done simply because of those arcane rules. There are 52 NO votes, and even a vote from Mighty Pants canā€™t change that. BTW my favorite pic of a leader in defeat is Mussolini hanging upside in a gas station.

@antisachetdethe

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I donā€™t have Twitter, so I appreciate the re-telling. But Iā€™m unclear about why things are presented with duplicates, and sometimes the duplicates are not near each other.

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Totally agree, inapt headline. This was substantive stuff, not empty schaudenfreude.

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OKā€¦so maybe a COUPLE of Dems are ā€˜dancingā€™ on the grave ofā€¦fill-in-the-blank. They were much closer to working with these chumps than othersā€¦

"Their problem now is that the tactics McConnell employed to accrue power undercut their ability to get things done. "

Bingo. Welcome to the wonderful world of radicalization.

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The rats!
The rats begin to chew the sheets.
Thereā€™s murmuring down below.
Murmuring, murmuring.
Now thereā€™s ingratitudeā€¦

ā€“News Has a Kind of Mystery, Nixon in China, Act 1, Scene 1

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Iā€™d much rather see other peopleā€™s curated tweets than have look for them myself, which I donā€™t.

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TPMā€™s headline writerā€™s batting average is dipping pretty significantly todayā€¦

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Indeed. Itā€™s part of conservative pshycology: they love them some authority.

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McConnell is riding his horse around DC while naked!

Uglier than ā€¦

McConnell wanted to bulldoze past the polls. Enough Senators figured out who they really worked for ā€¦ and they saw the polls.

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Yes. Headline should be corrected. Not only is it inaccurate ā€“ ā€œinappositeā€ is the perfect word.

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