Catherine Rampell
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Catherine Rampell
@crampell
@BulwarkOnline Economics Editor. @MSNOWNews (formerly known as MSNBC) Anchor. In prior lives: WaPo, NYT, CNN, NewsHour.
Econ, politics, tax, theater, etc.
Joined April 2008
- I didn’t ask Scott to "do a Nazi salute." I asked Scott to do whatever Elon Musk’s gesture was, since Scott said it was a mere greeting of enthusiasm for the crowd. If that's the case, he should have had no problem enthusiastically greeting our live TV audience that way tooChallenging Scott Jennings to do a Nazi salute on air when his whole point is that Elon didn't do a Nazi salute is not the killer rejoinder she thinks it is mediaite.com/a/swsvy via @Mediaite
- My job is to analyze policy. I can't even find a complete sentence in thisDonald Trump’s answer on how he will make childcare more affordable:
00:00 - “No one is teaching your kids to be gay,” a Florida teacher told the room. “Sometimes, they just are gay. I have math to teach. I literally don’t have time to teach your kids to be gay.”
- Took a lot of advanced planning for Trump to declassify the documents that FBI agents would later plant at his home
- Bill Gates says we can’t restart the economy soon and simply “ignore that pile of bodies over in the corner”
- my inbox is full of people claiming Biden caused the recent spike in gas prices when he "shut down Keystone pipeline." Given this pipeline does not yet exist -- and was only 8% built by time Biden revoked permit -- this seems to take a very extreme view of rational expectations!
- "In Texas, a woman whose water broke at 18 weeks—far too early for her baby to survive outside the womb—was unable to get an abortion until she became septic. She spent three days in the ICU, and one of her fallopian tubes permanently closed from scarring. In Tennessee, a woman
- Padma Lakshmi: "The president is himself a second-generation American. Two of the president’s wives are immigrants, but the only difference between them and Omar — and myself — is skin color”
- From just a few months ago.Pamela Karlan: “What would you think if, when your governor asked the federal government for the disaster assistance that Congress has provided, the President responded, ‘I would like you to do us a favor.’ I’ll... send the disaster relief once you brand my opponent a criminal.”
00:00 - Let's be precise. GOP-controlled Senate didn't "reject" Obama's 2016 SCOTUS nominee; they didn't assess Garland's fitness, hold a vote, vote him down Rather, McConnell refused to hold vote or even a single hearing. He invented a rule to steal a seat & hoard it for a GOP successor
- “Bush did not just insist on preparation for a pandemic. He was obsessed with it.”
- So Mexico agrees to do the thing it's already been doing, and Trump claims victory. Sounds about rightCrisis with Mexico both created and averted, all in the span of 48 hours...
