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There are a non-negative number of compromise bills that are worth less than nothing. There's no way I was able to tell from the article's text whether Cantwell
by joe_the_user 3y ago
There are a non-negative number of compromise bills that are worth less than nothing. There's no way I was able to tell from the article's text whether Cantwell was blocking things that were legitimately valuable or complete garbage (ie, use the word "privacy" offer only block stronger privacy guarantee, etc).
Statement like, "Again and again, aides said, she has thwarted promising talks by refusing to iron out key disputes, speaking out publicly against colleagues’ efforts and not empowering her staff to fully negotiate." say nothing at all.
- joe_the_user 3y agoAs an addendum, it occurs to me that the article's authors could have looked up the public statements that these aids these were referring to and so have given the reader an idea what bills she was opposing as contrasted with what bills she favored. But I could find no mention of this in the article.
- tedunangst 3y agoI would hope that her own aides would choose a more positive phrasing if they believed she was doing good work by holding out against worse than nothing bills.
- joe_the_user 3y agoThe one clear thing is that the unnamed aids are complaining about Cantwell. The article gives no real details which one could use to determine what the criticism is about exactly, never mind who is right. Vaguely I guess that if they had criticism that would resonate with people, they say it and so I'm vaguely skeptical of these aids. But my main reaction is "wow, here's an article about nothing that people actually read as stiff criticism"
- nyokodo 3y ago> her own aides would choose a more positive phrasing if they believed she was doing good work Because it’s not a quote in context the phrasing belongs to the journalist not the aides.