Favorite Rejects 2021-09-02
IMO conservative message discipline on this is impressive, the way progressives do politics everyone would be shouting "Six weeks was the compromise!" and demanding that candidates in swing races take explicit politically toxic stands.
Sam Stein @samstein
This is obviously an important policy question, but to me it's hubris and administrative overreach for the FDA to decide that it's an *FDA* question.
washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09…
Also to be clear, "British people should stop whining about this" has zero corollaries; it is a UK-specific injunction. Perhaps some day they will join some kind of union with their European neighbors and then their views could carry some weight.
Tim Worstall @worstall
That is in fact how politics should work — both parties should seek to put forward policy agendas that they think are substantively and politically viable, and enact that agendas if they win.
Bill Scher @billscher
You can pass tax bills with 50 votes thanks to budget reconciliation.
Each new majority does make changes, but it’s a constructive dialogue between two competing visions — the tax code doesn’t just flip back and forth with total reversals of prior changes.
Roberts writing his objection is particularly delicious, of course. "Look, all I wanted in life was to dismantle the Voting Rights Act of 1965 while retaining the precious legitimacy of this Court, but I'm beginning to feel that some of my colleagues only share half my goals."
This thread, but also, it would make sense to have a friendly person preemptively sue you, agree to pay the statutory damages, and have that person donate it back to you, as you can only be sued once per act.
Jason Sanford @jasonsanford
As more robust evidence comes out on how breakthrough infections very likely do *not* transmit as easily nor for as long, it becomes clearer and clearer how misleading news coverage like this was. cc: @nytimes
Eric Topol @EricTopol
Speaking personally, the reason I make jokes about conservatives dosing themselves with horse paste is that it's funny.
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
