OF THE MOMENT
A collection of voices, tweets and posts from the week.
TWEETS OF THE WEEK Jeff Flake
@JeffFlake
I have informed the Majority Leader that I will not vote to advance any of the 21 judicial nominees pending in the Judiciary Committee, or vote to confirm the 32 judges awaiting action on the floor, until the Mueller protection bill is brought to the full Senate for a vote.
Kyrsten Sinema
@kyrstensinema
Back in DC, headed to the first day of Senate school. I’m overcome with gratitude - thank you Arizona! It’s the privilege of my life to represent you.
Mark Z. Barabak
@markzbarabak
Fun Fact: If Pelosi is elected speaker, it will mark the first time in history the congressional leaders of both parties hail from the same state.
Jay Nordlinger
@jaynordlinger
If you want to be a hero for now, go the populist route. The applause will ring in your ears. If you want to be a hero to future generations, take a stance for budgetary discipline and entitlement reform. Exercise as much leadership as you can. Posterity will thank you.
THEY SAID IT
“Socialist know-nothing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the future of the Democrat Party. Nancy Pelosi is its past, but she’s probably its present too despite threats to deny her another Speakership.” — Christopher Buskirk Spectator USA
“The men who run the church continue to think so well of one another that I sometimes wonder whether they have met.” — Melinda Henneberger USA TODAY
”Having, in the past, dispraised President Emmanuel Macron, of France, for being unduly sunny in his belief that he could manage or manipulate Donald Trump, I will now, in this rainier moment, acquit him of that charge .” — Adam Gopnik The New Yorker