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I'm very excited to announce the publication of my new book, Why Congress, this month!
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Book website: whycongressbook.com
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Philip Wallach
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Philip Wallach
@PhilipWallach
Senior Fellow, @AEI. Studying America's separation of powers. Formerly @RSI, @BrookingsInst. Author of Why Congress, https://t.co/NbK86BtcWv
Washington, DC Katılım Şubat 2011
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@MikeCrespin ChatGPT finds models that make predictions from oral arguments, but can't locate any mock-opinion generators yet.
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First it's a joke,
then an experiment people scoff at,
then a "best practice" people shrug at,
then a routine accepted,
then a choice seen as self-evidently superior.
(Not likely in this context anytime soon! But: coming soon to a low-trust environment near you.)
Peter Henderson@PeterHndrsn
From oral arguments today!
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Both Labour & Conservatives reeling after a century of joint dominance in U.K. politics. Currently polling 3rd and 4th.
As if Perot’s Reform Party and Nader’s Greens had the GOP and Dems teetering on the brink… but Zach Polanski makes each of them look like George Washington!
Ross Kempsell@RossKempsell
Just catching up with the old Politico poll of polls and the Greens are in second You have got to hand it to the Greens and Polanski, they are making remarkable progress My sense is the incumbent Labour elite class are v complacent about this
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@stanfordNYC Thanks! It is, indeed, a truly crazy thing to lie about.
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@PhilipWallach No, worked up from James using public/commercial records + obits + census etc. His actual great-grandfather appears to be Clifford Lincoln Fishback Sr. (1889-1972), the son of John Howard Fishback (1866-1933), both of DC, precluding the Ark. governor.
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James Fishback really is just a completely compulsive liar. Yes, this is untrue. Yes, it's easily publicly verifiable. But think about how deep into lying you would have to get before coming up with "my great-granddad was a one-term governor of Arkansas."
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Is it a disservice to the excellent Rep. Jeff Hurd to circulate this story? I'm not sure, but generally nobody pays much attentions to my tweets anyway, so allow me to share this rare good news story about an American political party actively working to ensure a broad coalition!
Charles Hilu@charleshilu73
How Republican leaders successfully influenced Trump to re-endorse an anti-tariff Republican in a swing district. New in @thedispatch with @DavidMDrucker thedispatch.com/article/trump-…
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Can never get enough FL-19 content, and this one is especially choice.
Stephen Hayes@stephenfhayes
Why are so many disgraced GOPers and failed pols running in a ruby red GOP primary on Gulf Coast of FL? Madison Cawthorn vs Chris Collins? A J6er? Two candidates from IL? Another from NY? A peek inside an ultra-MAGA contest... thedispatch.com/article/madiso…
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A serious proposal: adult "internships" for academics and journalists to work at institutions they study or write about. I think something like this used to exist for Congress, but others will know more.
Ben Woodfinden@BenWoodfinden
As many who know me know, I took a break from my PhD to go work in politics for a few years and i'm now trying to finish my dissertation. It's been a struggle getting back into academic writing and thinking again, but I'm making progress now. Something that has become clear to me as i've been writing though is how useful having had real world political experience is to academic thinking and writing about politics. Not just because of any kind of practical knowledge it gives you, but because it helps you see how theory actually interacts with real world politics and institutions. I'm not saying it should be mandatory for academics who study politics to have practical experience, but to other political scientists and theorists, if you ever get the chance I highly recommend it.
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@binarybits But he’s so close to the camera, he must be telling it straight
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The data errors are subtle enough to not be obvious to most people. For example, median *family* income in 1980 really was $21k, but if you use that you need to use the 2024 *family* income number of $105k, not the 2024 *household* income number of $83k.
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3 million views for this video that starts with wrong numbers for 1980 (median household income was $17k not $21k and median home sale price was $64k, not $47k) and then "proves" that homes used to be more affordable. youtube.com/shorts/OPGi4XW…
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French municipal elections yesterday: National Rally did moderately well. Gives them more chances to prove they are a governing party.
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Just depends on the details of what’s negotiated. Schumer and Durbin have both said in the last two days that D’s support voter ID, it would make sense for Rs to start testing those parameters and then have the floor reflect how close or far they are from agreement. This is how a determined majority passed major legislation for years, it’s not novel or unusual until recently.
In any case it doesn’t seem like any of that is happening, but a girl can dream. 🫠
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Also it just puts a bullet in the swamp argument that “we could never wait Dems out in a talking filibuster they would just go on forever! All of them would give two 8 hour speeches!” Mmmkay.
Rachel Bovard@rachelbovard
DC types get very mad when I say the Senate is lazy but senators couldn’t even senator for one week. DHS isn’t funded and they’re in the middle of the first real deliberative fight in a decade and 16 of them just bailed.
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@MattGlassman312 @rachelbovard The politics of the sensible compromise are also a little strange, since it’s entirely possible that an ID only law could benefit Ds
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@rachelbovard Right or wrong, I think most of them privately don't think the law would do much, and think the issue makes for good base politics before and after the election.
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Kent couldn’t even win a solid Republican district when Joe Biden was president
Cernovich@Cernovich
A Tucker Carlson / Joe Kent ticket would steam roll anything Democrats or Republicans could bring. It's laughable when people try to argue this with me. Spend some time offline. Good looking, physically fit white men are back "in."
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NEW: The White House has unveiled its proposal for Congress to put in place comprehensive AI regulations whitehouse.gov/articles/2026/…
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Which is just to say, I'm in very strong agreement with this @SethAMandel piece:
commentary.org/seth-mandel/jo…
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Reminder of where Joe Kent has fit into GOP politics...this is the graph from my December 2022 @washingtonpost look at GOP underperformance in the House races that year. Kent lost a district that the GOP should have won 55-45.
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@MattGlassman312 @ringwiss If someone actually wanted to get a significantly amended (stripped down) version passed, what would be the correct next move now? Try to dispose of Thune’s amendments?
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@ringwiss It's filled with substantive amendments at least!
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Senate is now on the SAVE Act. Thune did not file cloture. He did fill the tree. A Republican has the floor and is debating.
Are we now in a talking filibuster? A regular order consideration of a bill? A 60-vote Senate charade?
Trick question, it's in the eye of the beholder!
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