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NEW: My deep dive into the 36-year McConnell-Biden relationship
How Biden's deal w/ McConnell on "fiscal cliff" made Reid so mad he demanded Obama bench Biden next time
a fresh look at the Bork hearings
Obama + aides skepticism that Joe can make it work https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/22/joe-biden-mitch-mcconnell-relationship-460385
How Biden's deal w/ McConnell on "fiscal cliff" made Reid so mad he demanded Obama bench Biden next time
a fresh look at the Bork hearings
Obama + aides skepticism that Joe can make it work https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/22/joe-biden-mitch-mcconnell-relationship-460385
typo fixed
Some bits:
Sen. COONS, a moderate Biden ally, says it would be "reductionist" to assume Biden won't get rid of the filibuster of his history/love of the Senate.
“We are in a dire crisis and he ISN'T going to sit by for four years and see his entire agenda stymied”
Some bits:
Sen. COONS, a moderate Biden ally, says it would be "reductionist" to assume Biden won't get rid of the filibuster of his history/love of the Senate.
“We are in a dire crisis and he ISN'T going to sit by for four years and see his entire agenda stymied”
1 thing McConnell & Obama aides agree on: it wasn't that Obama didn't schmooze enuf w/ McConnell
Don "Stew" Stewart, McConnell's frm deputy Cos:
“It’s not personality, it’s policy. None of the beers or whiskey or anything matters. If your policy stinks, it’s not going anywhere”
Don "Stew" Stewart, McConnell's frm deputy Cos:
“It’s not personality, it’s policy. None of the beers or whiskey or anything matters. If your policy stinks, it’s not going anywhere”
But even if Biden succeeds where Obama didn't re: McConnell, some Obama aides argue it will be b/c Biden is white.
A whole hosts of rxn's to Obama writing in his memoir that part of the reason he sent Biden to deal w/ McConnell was b/c of race.
A whole hosts of rxn's to Obama writing in his memoir that part of the reason he sent Biden to deal w/ McConnell was b/c of race.
McConnell aides fumed all winter about that Obama line. fwiw, some Biden and Obama aides think that's not true.
1 person who agrees w/ that the GOP in congress were more obstructive b/c of his race? McConnell's first wife (who is now an Elizabeth Warren-supporting MA liberal)
1 person who agrees w/ that the GOP in congress were more obstructive b/c of his race? McConnell's first wife (who is now an Elizabeth Warren-supporting MA liberal)
a dive into McConnell & race
progressive by Southern GOP standards
Says he voted for LBJ over Goldwater b/c of civil rights
stood up to Reagan on Apartheid
But in a 1970 article (that he cited on the Sen. floor during Bork fight): he praised Chief Justice Taney cont...
progressive by Southern GOP standards
Says he voted for LBJ over Goldwater b/c of civil rights
stood up to Reagan on Apartheid
But in a 1970 article (that he cited on the Sen. floor during Bork fight): he praised Chief Justice Taney cont...
McConnell praised Taney "as among the most outstanding of American jurists" w/ an "exceptional career."
McConnell tells me he made a "mistake" in what he wrote as a 28-year-old.
"Taney was the author of one of the worst decisions (the Dred Scott decision) in American history,"
McConnell tells me he made a "mistake" in what he wrote as a 28-year-old.
"Taney was the author of one of the worst decisions (the Dred Scott decision) in American history,"
