Mary Beth Gilbert

Love all things public policy, esp health care, increasing quality mental health care reimbursement. GOP should be about fiscal responsibility, limited govt.

[Mary Beth Gilbert @KandRMom]

This is one of the best politically oriented pieces I have read in a long time. One excerpt: "This is what I mean by deep pluralism. It isn’t the thin hope that we’ll all eventually agree. It’s the harder commitment to building resilient institutions that can hold the loyalty of people who don’t agree and never will. Pluralism isn’t a temporary condition to be resolved on the way to consensus. It’s the permanent weather. Institutions are either built to function in it or they aren’t, and the ones that aren’t will keep generating exactly the distrust that makes norm deviation feel reasonable." America Is All Right. The Trump Administration Isn't. https://t.co/NYPotInb5K

[Mary Beth Gilbert @KandRMom]

@donnabrazile I disagree with you a lot when I watch This Week, but you hit a home run with your interview on @stephenasmith. Not sure what it was that resonated, but I will re-listen and share the episode.

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

We can’t be neutral when it comes to Russia and Ukraine. This is an evil vs good war, and we should stand with the democracy, the victim of an invasion and not the invader. People say they’re pro-Ukraine, but actions speak louder than words.

[Mary Beth Gilbert @KandRMom]

Senators Privately Ask Platner Whether New Allegations Will Emerge. “Is Graham Platner a perfect person? No. But he is better than Susan Collins and we’ve gotta help him win.” Really? Collins has taken tough votes that involved nuance. Platner-smoke = fire https://t.co/dCAcmau4mz

[Mary Beth Gilbert @KandRMom]

Is this true?

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

The U.S. House will vote this week for tougher sanctions on Putin’s Russia. We can’t wait for the Executive Branch to come along.

[Mary Beth Gilbert @KandRMom]

Principally Speaking: Your Weekend News Audit - Episode 1 https://t.co/cCgqNKhUSj via @YouTube

[Sarah Isgur @whignewtons]

Also Susan Collins is the existential threat? She voted to impeach Trump! This is like when R’s tried to argue that Joe Manchin was the problem. We should want people from the other party willing to negotiate and compromise.

[Jeffrey Goldberg @JeffreyGoldberg]

"What’s most incredible is not that Platner would attempt to spin something that is obviously disqualifying. It’s that the leaders of his party are accepting that spin." -- @mikenelson586:
https://t.co/bmqXgCvFAm

[Mary Beth Gilbert @KandRMom]

Woot woot! You MUST join the Houston Dispatch Junto!

[Sarah Isgur @whignewtons]

I’m moving back to Texas, y’all 🤠

https://t.co/98Q909fbTM

[David French @DavidAFrench]

This is wildly false, and it breeds a dangerous level of ignorance and wishful thinking in the American public. We'd have to make some hard choices (including making some very tough trade-offs) to come close to balancing the budget. Saying anything else is irresponsible.

[Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo]

I think you can say, well, but who could have predicted Trump? But most of the debt accumulation was GFC/pandemic; Trumps tax cut played a modest role. (Which doesn’t excuse them, and I opposed them at the time). The problem now is a bipartisan erosion of fiscal discipline norms in which both parties can claim there’s no point in being sane because the other party will just spend any savings. Once norms go, they are hard to rebuild

[Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo]

As someone who was a budget hawk fifteen years ago, I would gently suggest that the case for freaking out about the deficit back then was that this was where we were going to end up.

[Sarah Isgur @whignewtons]

I think we can call this. Cornyn’s first senate race in 2002 was my first campaign. Congress continues to lose people interested in legislating in favor of candidates interested in…not. Sad to see.

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

Knowing your nature is critically important to understanding what success is for you.

I can't tell you literally what is best for you, but I can tell you that success is not having a lot more money or status than you need. Having the time and freedom to do what you most want to do is far more important.

What is success for most people? It is a matter of having meaningful work and meaningful relationships. If you can make your work and your passion one and the same, and do it with people who you care about and care about you, you will have a happy, successful life.

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[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

We have forced an opportunity for the House to vote on military aid to Ukraine & tough sanctions on Russia. The history books will be written & it should read that America helped defeat the invading dictator. We need to be a Churchill & not a Chamberlain.
https://t.co/dHN4BOvQ6Q

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

Memo to President Trump: 70% of Americans stand with Ukraine. We stand with independence, free markets and rule of law. We oppose a dictator who invades a neighbor. We stand with honor and right… and we oppose evil.

[Mary Beth Gilbert @KandRMom]

"It doesn’t help that we live in a society that thinks people who have money are better than people who don’t. It’s a bizarre relationship. We love the wealthy in America. We aspire to be them. But we hate them. We hate them for evading tax increases. We hate them for being evil capitalists. And these simple labels actually do us a disservice. We need to understand that just because you have money does not mean you are evil or bad. But if you have billions and you argue against paying a slight marginal tax increase — you might be an asshole." Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. https://t.co/BOQZbyMHW9

[Braver Angels @braverangels]

“When racist and race-baiter become the default way we talk about each other, we are no longer speaking as neighbors, but as enemies.”

That line from @JohnRWoodJr is worth thinking about.

Especially because most Americans actually agree on more than we think, like congressional maps & gerrymandering.

Demonization makes finding common ground almost impossible.

Full video in the comment 🧵