Toggle navigation
TWunroll
TWunroll
faq
Contact US
Matt Glassman
MattGlassman312
People who think the job of a member of Congress during a local natural disaster is purely performative have definitely never been around a member of Congress during a local
Read more
One congressional truism is this: if you ran the Senate on the House procedures, you would lose some things but it would ultimately work fine. But if you ran the
Read more
I am still of the mind that the Dems/Congress made a series of strategic errors on 1/6 regarding impeachment. I'm not really blaming them---these were very weighty decisions that would
Read more
Right or wrong, the WH is very much acting in the conscious shadow of 2009. Not only going short on the negotiations, but also the admin appears to be taking
Read more
The examples are endless, but can be quickly summed up. In the past, most members participated substantively in the policy process via the committee system. But the process is now
Read more
A funny thing about essentially unprecedented situations: *somehow* this decision got made, we may or may not ever know how or by who, and in 100 years from this will
Read more
As we inaugurate a new president and begging a new administration, my regular reminder that the president is not the legislator-in-chief. We have a perfectly capable Congress—indeed a better institution—for
Read more
Enough. Pelosi is openly announcing she talked to Miley about keeping the nuclear codes away from the President, but she won't use her authority to reconvene the House ASAP and
Read more
It sure looks like the necessary preparation, manpower, and resources for guarding the Capitol were severely lacking. I've been there for State of the Union, way bigger perimeter. But I
Read more
It's simply not possible to imagine any American president in any of our living lifetimes observe an angry mob occupy the Capitol, and decide that he shouldn't be a visible
Read more
The growing narrative about the Trump lame-duck looks like it is going to be that it was more or less a disaster politically, and if that becomes the conventional understanding
Read more
It’s really academic at this point, but Trump’s veto bargaining strategy on the Omnibus/COVID bill is both a masterclass in how not to use the powers of the POTUS to
Read more
‹
1
2
›
By continuing to use the site, you are consenting to the use of cookies as explained in our
Cookie Policy
to improve your experience.
I agree