Christopher Colford

International Monetary Fund alumnus — World Bank consultant — McKinsey & Company alumnus — retweets do not necessarily imply endorsement

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Kevin McCarthy was one of 147 Republicans who voted to overturn the 2020 election results—a vote that took place just hours after the January 6 attack on the Capitol. He got what he deserved.
https://t.co/Yv4wwq4op8

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

periodic reminder that ⁦@NormOrnstein⁩ and Tom Mann stuck their necks out and diagnosed the disease 11 years ago

unfortunately that was long before the overwhelming majority of journalists and political analysts could handle the truth https://t.co/puYMnmVhPo

[Peter Wehner @Peter_Wehner]

"[McCarthy] has been one of the key figures in transforming the GOP into a monstrous political party, one whose contempt for constitutional and democratic norms poses the greatest threat to the Republic since the Civil War."
https://t.co/BXA4K39MEo

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

So the GOP just got rid of their own Speaker after bringing the country to the brink of a government shutdown, while their presidential frontrunner is in court for fraud and getting gagged by the judge for defaming the clerk.

The big question then: what about Joe Biden’s age?

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

This is the critical point, one missed by so many in the media. This is a Republican problem, period.

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

For new, temporary Republican House leaders to take away Speaker Emerita Pelosi's private office, with threat of lockout (while she is in SF helping plan the memorial service for Senator Feinstein), is a disgrace and not the way a great nation like our USA should ever behave.

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

if "American politics" were broken, we'd have seen things like this happen when Democrats controlled the House

but we didn't

what's broken, very specifically, is the Republican Party

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

“Election lawyer Marc Elias called Turley's defense of Trump ‘more proof that Jonathan Turley is Mike Lindell with tenure,’ referring to the MyPillow founder who continues to espouse election conspiracy theories while facing multiple defamation lawsuits.”
https://t.co/ioA3bFfMtG

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

May not be, but should be, an unindicted co-conspirator. Is not, but should be, indicted herself.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

So the Russian officer (Girkin) who started the Donbas war in 2014 is in jail, the only Russian general to carry out a successful maneuver in 2022 (Surovikin) has been relieved of duty, and the only Russian commander to take a city in 2023 (Prigozhin) has been murdered.

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

Former President Donald J. Trump, Fulton County Jail inmate #P01135809

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

Mark Meadows is not the first former White House chief of staff to be indicted and get a mugshot— here’s Nixon’s chief of staff HR Haldeman. Convicted of obstruction of justice, conspiracy, and three counts of perjury, he served 18 months in prison.

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

The plan to claim the 2020 election was fraudulent unless Trump won went all the way back to early 2019, some 19 months before the election!!

[Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney]

No surprise Trump doesn’t want you to see the J6 Committee evidence. Here’s the GPO website with transcripts, documents, exhibits & our meticulously sourced 800+ page final report. Also links to our hearings. Might be a good time to watch those again. https://t.co/HtqbmCCaCD

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Jared Kushner is an empty suit whose only “success” in business comes from crony capitalism and spending 4 years in the White House developing those cronies.

My @Morning_Joe chart talk from earlier this week below.

https://t.co/0Hd8gz7Nc3

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

10/10. Big lies and coup attempts have to be seen for what they are, or they will multiply and bring down our system of government. So we also need a trial for the sake of a future of democracy.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

8/10. Trump knew that he was committing crimes. His collaborators knew they were committing crimes. Here again, a trial will help.
https://t.co/Qabq8qdtT2

[Paul Morrison @chessclubgringo]

@TimothyDSnyder Here’s a no-paywall copy of the NYTimes article Prof Snyder posts in 8/10 of this thread.

“Previously Secret Memo Laid Out Strategy for Trump to Overturn Biden’s Win”
https://t.co/zQeSit04Hz

[David Cay Johnston @DavidCayJ]

Thomas is a crook, plain and simple.

[Olivier Blanchard @ojblanchard1]

More than the level of debt or even debt service, what matters most for debt sustainability is whether the budget process is functional or disfunctional, whether it can adjust if the need arises. The US budget process is disfunctional. Fitch downgrading was reasonable.