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Potentially encouraging re: the filibuster:

@Darn

He's absolutely right, and this is something that has been pointed out and autopsied for years since Obamacare and those midterms, when gunshy Dems ran away from it. Though of course you'll have people tearing down the bill for not being perfect. Which is why more will be necessary.

It's not dropping, last I checked. Manchin gave up on that.

Oy vey. Well, I got CBS All Access and nothing to do beyond a few work things so I guess I may try watching it. I loved the first few seasons - I was particularly invested in LA and San Francisco, for all its dysfunction and later Fox News leakage, but NY was always lower-key and cooler than them all to me. It's lovely to see this group again.

I have my doubts, but I can't blame them for not wanting to risk it on the first major bill of this administration. They do need to get him up against a wall soon.

I guess when one can't get it up anymore they'll use any other outlet they can find.

Dave Weigel lives in a world where he must choose between common sense and politely appeasing the deranged rantings of Brianha Joy Gray to prove he is left enough and often opts for Door #2, and thinks all Democratic voters do the same. But this is also coming from the same brain trust of folks who believed that if Pelosi and Schumer had just held a vote at 3 AM EST the day of the Capitol siege, Congressional GOP would've voted to impeach Trump. It's not a small concession on lowering the limit, and I don't like it. But I do understand it, and I also don't trust in or take seriously either a) Twitter warriors of the left who view everything through a catastrophizing lens for Dems, either because of endless PTSD or because they simply want the party destroyed for not kowtowing to them, or b) Beltway pundits who live to handicap Dems at all costs and so always spin everything on behalf of the moderate or conservative voices in the caucus if not in the GOP itself. There is a more nuanced take than any of that, and I don't think any of this particular round of minutiae will have much bearing on '22 which will be tough no matter what.

That's Manchin for you. But while I don't agree with cutting the income level and that will affect some, I don't think that many of the general public will notice any of this skullduggery much. What trends on Twitter for a few hours is not what drowns out public discourse. And they're not cutting UI.

Of course he is the reason. And as I said re: Y&R it's pretty obvious who he is.

Typical Eric. This sounded like a sad cash grab to me from one of the best seasons of the show (I stopped watching RW around the first Return to New York, I think; I didn't feel they'd had a really non-tacky season since Seattle, which was also full of issues as were Miami and Hawaii), but this little tour with Norman and Heather is cute.

Eh, Trump and others lost a few nominees. It happens. The Beltway was just obsessed with Tanden because both they and the left had feuded with her, and because she was a prominent woman of color.

There are plenty of other good alternatives. I'm surprised, though; it sounded like Murkowski could've given.

I have a lot of time for ol' Tom but there's some classic camp in his oeuvre. @Darn and I cracked up at a '92(?) episode where Tom has to tell Derek or someone about Terrence getting beaten up and immediately starts vamping - "it was race hate! White hate!!" Great social issue, of course, but a bit arch!

Who can forget Tom and Erica's "disco deceit!"

Thread: I think Baron did good work at the Post and of course before that. I also think he is far from beyond reproach or critique.

He's not only charismatic and sexy, he's a brilliant actor. A soap should lock him in for as long as possible, but noooo.

With this stint, Richard Burgi will have been successfully wasted at half the soaps left on the air.