Jeff Gumbinner

Democratic Consultant, father of the two best teenage girls. Views are my own, not any clients’

[Jeff Gumbinner @JGumbinner]

@molly_banta @ScVanValkenburg @Dunnavant4VA 💯

[Jeff Gumbinner @JGumbinner]

@Uber driver just got to my house, looked over and cancelled. There were two black children sitting on my front steps waiting for the bus. I’m certain that the driver saw the black kids and cancelled. No other explanation since the driver was pulling up to my house.

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@froomkin Given that Moody’s says their proposal will hurt the economy and cost 780,000 jobs, your headline could even say Republicans threaten to catastrophically tank economy unless Biden agrees to hurt the economy.

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Funny how whenever someone gets busted for actual voter fraud, it’s a Republican committing the fraud.

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@joshtpm The Grievance Industrial Complex has to eat.

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@MuellerSheWrote Robert Hur is a former clerk for Justice Rehnquist. Why does every prosecutor always have to be a Republican - Wray, Mueller, Starr, Hur, Durham. The list never ends bc Rs complain anyone who isn’t an R is partisan and Ds bend over backwards to appease the bad faith attacks.

[Jeff Gumbinner @JGumbinner]

Second sentence of this post is the most important sentence every political reporter/editor/producer needs to read this year.

They have to choose whether to be part of the problem or part of the solution. There’s no neutral choice when it comes to how they frame these stories.

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That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.

Democrats aren’t signing on to spending over $100 Billion to let tax cheats avoid accountability. Would rather use that money to reduce the deficit and/or help regular people rather than mega-rich tax cheats.

[Ashley Hinson @RepAshleyHinson]

🚨It’s official – we just defunded the 87,000 new IRS agents.

The IRS should be focused on customer service, not on targeting hard working Americans.

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@twperkins1950 @chrislhayes Check out people like @MaxwellFrostFL who would not be able to serve with your proposal.

[Christopher Miller @chrizmillr]

Wow, I can't believe this is in the new House Rules package. McCarthy gave up WAY too much to become Speaker.

[Go to Bluesky to save your brain -- L O L G O P @LOLGOP]

Here's the story that the press & even Dems are missing about the GOP chaos on Capitol Hill:

These 20 Trump Republicans want the same thing Trump wants -- the power to destroy the country if they don't get what they want.

That's what this is all about.

https://t.co/BJivNGhaea

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@ChicagotoMaine @joshtpm Their goal is to crash the economy and then use their media to blame Biden for it.

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@joshtpm Every single Republican Member of Congress is willing to crash the economy, otherwise they would reject this deal. There is literally nothing they won’t do for power, from crashing the economy to supporting a coup.

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@mattcorridoni Well deserved, Matt!

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@Pasqualiba @joshtpm And then the first time their vote is needed for anything, they’ll demand more.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

I know I am addressing a brick wall, but please, reporters and anchors. There are no “moderates” among House Republicans. Call them pragmatists or non-radicals. And the Freedom Caucus types are not “conservative!” Call them radicals or hardliners. Or even insurrection supporters!

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@JakeSherman What @jakesherman isn’t saying is that their concern is for themselves and what comes next for them… not what any of this means for the American people.