Pete Lynch

Visiting assistant professor of politics

[Pete Lynch @pskl08]

@RepAndyBarr It’s kinda rich to act like you aren’t in bed with “Wall Street elitists” when 85% of your contributions come from large individual contributions or PACs and your #1 donor industry is securities. You represent these “Wall Street elitists.”

https://t.co/aiNTopnZd9

[Pete Lynch @pskl08]

Today I spent enough time looking things up on the Federalist Society website that the IP address I was using was temporarily banned by whatever security service they use to block online attacks. As a researcher, it makes me proud to have been mistaken for an online attack.

[Pete Lynch @pskl08]

@thehill What a joke...Trump's only serious "accomplishment" was to pass tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy.

[Pete Lynch @pskl08]

@shaunking Completely disgusting. Especially considering that the police already acted as judge, jury, and executioner when they murdered him in the street.

[Barbara Lee @BarbaraLee_CA]

RT if you think 535 Congressional members — not one president — should have the power to declare war. #RepealTheAUMF

[Pete Lynch @pskl08]

@RBReich The filibuster wasn't even in the constitution, was created by accident, and even then was barely used for the next 150 years. The only thing it does it make it harder for Congress to be responsive to the people. Nobody should want to keep it.

[Pete Lynch @pskl08]

@davidsirota @dailyposter God forbid people try to hold politicians accountable regardless of the letter next to their name.

[Pete Lynch @pskl08]

@RashidaTlaib @Detroitk12 I hope she/he shows them the GINI index over time

[Pete Lynch @pskl08]

@thehill The fact that some people still like this guy is just absurd.

[Pete Lynch @pskl08]

@johniadarola The filibuster wasn't written into the Constitution. It was created by accident, and it was barely used at all until the 1970s as political polarization began to rise. It only serves to make it far harder to change the status quo.

[Pete Lynch @pskl08]

Despite the fact that the Saudi crown prince approved of the operation to assassinate #Khashoggi, Biden has decided not to penalize him.

https://t.co/fH6QnzW05d

It would be cool if, just once, we had a president who didn't bend over backwards to appease that terrible regime.

[Pete Lynch @pskl08]

@MollyJongFast How is this not idolatry?

[Pete Lynch @pskl08]

@davidsirota There are so many crabs in this barrel.

[Pete Lynch @pskl08]

@nowthisnews I think he'll find that they'd rather get $2,000 checks than $1,400 checks, but that's just my guess.

[Pete Lynch @pskl08]

@thehill In the article, @tedcruz says he thinks it's a "little rude" that people put up @BetoORourke in their neighborhood after the #CancunCruz scandal.

First of all -- free speech, baby.
Second of all -- it's far more rude to ditch your constituents for Cancun when shit hits the fan.

[Pete Lynch @pskl08]

@HeerJeet Us Sanders supporters agree with Manchin's choice, but not with his reasoning. The reason to reject @neeratanden is because she's corrupt, not because she's "mean."

[Pete Lynch @pskl08]

@BLeeForCongress As someone who works in higher education, I can confidently say that the cost of higher education is an absolute scam.

[Pete Lynch @pskl08]

@theRealSeean @ijillmarch @tedcruz I feel bad for the person you're replying to. They clearly have Stockholm syndrome.

[Pete Lynch @pskl08]

@RBReich And of course, they've already completely backed off on the promise of $2,000.

Democrats love to bargain themselves out of their "preferred" outcome before the Republicans have even shown up to negotiate.

[Pete Lynch @pskl08]

@MSNBC @chrislhayes "If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy."

- David Frum