Patrick Kennedy

Opinions are my own, unless they're not.

[Patrick Kennedy @pattycaeks]

@_rebeccaclewis @BrandonNeider he is referring to the new "synthetic performer" disclosure law for advertisements ("this is not a real person") https://t.co/7v3YvM5R7e

except it doesn't apply to unauthorized digital recreations of real people (beyond elections law, it's governed by NYS civil rights law)

[Patrick Kennedy @pattycaeks]

@jaysefstalin @esjesjesj *the majority

[Patrick Kennedy @pattycaeks]

@motown5203 @JonBryant421 @AaronD12264682 @bigg_wildcat @Soigneesandy @LemonSturgis My overarching point is not the policy merits so much as it is the complete lack of good faith in order to kneecap Democrats' reelections.

[Patrick Kennedy @pattycaeks]

@motown5203 @JonBryant421 @AaronD12264682 @bigg_wildcat @Soigneesandy @LemonSturgis "McConnell rejected claims by his GOP critics that he shouldn’t have engaged in negotiations to pair Ukraine aid with a border and asylum bill, reminding them that it was their idea."

https://t.co/s1Tdfv7J2r

[Patrick Kennedy @pattycaeks]

@JonBryant421 @AaronD12264682 @motown5203 @bigg_wildcat @Soigneesandy @LemonSturgis The Obama and Biden era immigration deals rhymed.

Step 1: negotiate a bipartisan immigration deal
Step 2: Republicans refuse to pass the deal they worked on so they can continue blaming Democrats on immigration
Step 3: Run an anti-immigration/close-the-borders presidential race

[Patrick Kennedy @pattycaeks]

@AaronD12264682 @motown5203 @bigg_wildcat @Soigneesandy @JonBryant421 @LemonSturgis Every reasonable effort was made to garner bipartisan support, but the GOP literally decided on day zero - inauguration day - that as a partywide strategy they would openly refuse to work with him in good faith.

[Patrick Kennedy @pattycaeks]

@AaronD12264682 @motown5203 @bigg_wildcat @Soigneesandy @JonBryant421 @LemonSturgis The ACA was literally crafted in the most conciliatory manner possible to garner GOP support.

They had refused to work with him before he even made it to the Oval Office, it literally doesn't matter what he did.

[Patrick Kennedy @pattycaeks]

@AaronD12264682 @bigg_wildcat @Soigneesandy @JonBryant421 @motown5203 @LemonSturgis Hello Aaron pls respond.

[Patrick Kennedy @pattycaeks]

@AaronD12264682 @bigg_wildcat @Soigneesandy @JonBryant421 @motown5203 @LemonSturgis No, you are factually incorrect. The Republicans' inauguration day strategy dinner was held on *inauguration day* - in January 2009. At no point did they ever participate in good faith.

Obama's party line legislative endgame on the ACA was a direct result of this GOP strategy.

[Patrick Kennedy @pattycaeks]

@AaronD12264682 @bigg_wildcat @Soigneesandy @JonBryant421 @motown5203 @LemonSturgis Please tell me which of these two events happened first:
A. Paul Ryan gets attacked in the president's budget speech
B. Paul Ryan participates in an inauguration day strategy meeting where it's decided the GOP will collectively oppose literally everything regardless of the merits

[Patrick Kennedy @pattycaeks]

@AaronD12264682 @bigg_wildcat @Soigneesandy @JonBryant421 @motown5203 @LemonSturgis "They went in demoralized,disillusioned, depressed and came out with a dance in their step because they’d figured out that the way to handle all of this was to unite like a parliamentary minority…make the president’s victories look messy and illegitimate, have a lot of defeats."

[Patrick Kennedy @pattycaeks]

@AaronD12264682 @bigg_wildcat @Soigneesandy @JonBryant421 @motown5203 @LemonSturgis "And they just decide on a strategy of just across the board opposition to deny him anything because they think that even if it is a policy that they ultimately supported or wanted, they won’t benefit politically from it."

[Patrick Kennedy @pattycaeks]

@AaronD12264682 @bigg_wildcat @Soigneesandy @JonBryant421 @motown5203 @LemonSturgis they literally decided *on inauguration night* that their political strategy would be to oppose everything he'd propose with the explicit intent of denying him any mantle of bipartisanship

https://t.co/CuNF9izncC