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Saturday Tabs

James Joyner
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  • WaPo, “As shutdown hits one-month mark, federal workers are not okay.” tl;dr: Civil servants are missing rent payments, having cars repossessed, and unable to feed their families after two missed paychecks
  • NYT, “Vance Says He Hopes His Wife Embraces Christianity, Setting Off Backlash.” tl;dr: There’s apparently such a thing as evangelical Catholicism.
  • Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, “Why the Gaza Peace Deal Is Like an Anglican Wedding.” tl;dr: It hinges on “do all in your power to uphold these two persons in their marriage.”
  • NYT, “Which Is Better, One Long Walk or Many Short Ones?” tl;dr: One long walk. Probably.
  • WSJ, “Americans Are Getting a Look at Next Year’s ACA Premiums and Many Don’t Like It.” tl;dr: More than 90% of Obamacare enrollees receive some federal help with their monthly premiums. If that goes away, many can’t afford coverage.
  • Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, “Trump Is Sleepwalking Into Political Disaster.” tl;dr: In his first term, trying to kill ObamaCare proved damaging. He’s repeating his mistake.

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11 responses to “Saturday Tabs”

  1. Sleeping Dog Avatar
    Sleeping Dog

    There’s apparently such a thing as evangelical Catholicism.

    Yup and they’re persistent too.

  2. Gregory Lawrence Brown Avatar
    Gregory Lawrence Brown

    “Vance Says He Hopes His Wife Embraces Christianity, Setting Off Backlash.”

    I can’t read the paywalled NYT item to get the context of this quote. So my question based on the information that I have: He doesn’t know?

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  3. Jay L. Gischer Avatar
    Jay L. Gischer

    @Gregory Lawrence Brown: I haven’t read that article, but I read something else that also reported that quote, and what it means is that he hopes that one day she will embrace Christianity. She doesn’t now.

    And no, this won’t fly well in certain circles.

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  4. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    @Gregory Lawrence Brown: @Jay L. Gischer:

    “Do I hope eventually that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved by in church?” he said during an event at the University of Mississippi on Wednesday, in response to a question from the audience. “Yeah, I honestly do wish that because I believe in the Christian Gospel, and I hope eventually my wife comes to see it the same way.”

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  5. gVOR10 Avatar
    gVOR10

    The Right, including Vance, is now talking about “heritage Americans“. Nothing Usha does can make her a heritage American, or a heritage Christian. Vance knows, but will not say, that for the Right “Christian” is a tribal identifier, and Usha will never be a member of the tribe.

    Before he ever thought about entering politics Vance dug a hole for his future self and now he’s doing his poor best to hand wave and bullshit his way around it.

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  6. Sleeping Dog Avatar
    Sleeping Dog

    @gVOR10:

    You may recall that Vance was once touted as a future Dem aligned political hope, but he made the cynical choice to become a MAGAt. As a Dem, Usha would be diversity forward credibility, as a MAGAt, she’s a boat anchor. He’s enough of a weasel to dump her and let his minions spread the rumor that the reason was she wouldn’t become a Christian.

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  7. Kathy Avatar
    Kathy

    One fine day in the near future, one of their children will denounce their mother to the secret police, and she will be deported or shot.

    On that day, Vance will beam with pride that his spawn are real, patriotic Americans.

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  8. Gregory Lawrence Brown Avatar
    Gregory Lawrence Brown

    @Jay L. Gischer:
    @Jon:

    Thank you for the replies.

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  9. Mimai Avatar
    Mimai

    Which Is Better, One Long Walk or Many Short Ones?

    Is there subtext to this link?

    Because I can certainly see subtext(s), some more sub than others.

    But perhaps it is simply a cigar.

  10. Kurtz Avatar
    Kurtz

    @Mimai:

    But perhaps it is simply a cigar.

    Walks or the Vances?

  11. Mimai Avatar
    Mimai

    @Kurtz:
    Walks. The Vances are too on-the-nose.

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