Am I crazy or is leftish @npr an order of magnitude fairer 2 Trump than the network newscasts which've gone berserk (chasing Colbert Effect)
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 1, 2017
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Am I crazy or is leftish @npr an order of magnitude fairer 2 Trump than the network newscasts which've gone berserk (chasing Colbert Effect)
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 1, 2017
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Still don't quite understand why I'm supposed to be outraged that White House gave some information 2 a Congressman (assuming it's accurate) https://t.co/PwajA6PYt5
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 1, 2017
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York's patented but increasingly rare stay-calm-while-all-around-you-are-losing-their-heads approach…. #9 was news to me … https://t.co/PwajA6PYt5
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York's patented but increasingly rare stay-calm-while-all-around-you-are-losing-their-heads approach…. #9 was news to me … https://t.co/PwajA6PYt5
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 1, 2017
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Hail Cesar! https://t.co/Jr7eSnJCbZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 31, 2017
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Also opposing this has legit. resonance with right-to-lifers. You want Emanuelesque thinking to spread among docs who treat *you* at 74? https://t.co/fqkhWFqHKP
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 30, 2017
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Also opposing this has legit. resonance with right-to-lifers. You want Emanuelesque thinking to spread among docs who treat *you* at 74? https://t.co/fqkhWFqHKP
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 30, 2017
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If-as Lowry suggests-Trump should move to populist left (I agree), why does *not* repealing Obamacare produce a "crisis"? #featurenotbug https://t.co/otPDn4clci
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 30, 2017
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Here is the Wilkins piece in type too small to read! https://t.co/XHqJzwWX99 https://t.co/zb7RbWeexO
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 30, 2017
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Roger Wilkins once saved us at Harper's with an honest & elegant excerpt from his bio ("Confessions of a Blue Chip Black"). R.I.P.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 30, 2017
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Another popular bipartisan populist move Trump could make: Denounce Ezekial Emanuel's Duty-to-Die-at-75 schtick https://t.co/YW15wJHEYS
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 30, 2017
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Nothing #Medicare55 can't fix … https://t.co/F02wksp1fp
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 30, 2017
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Amazing that it's so hard for @npr to find Brits-on-the-street who actually support Brexit. How did it win?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 30, 2017
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Second-to-last graf: "group [ISIS] has admitted a crackdown on immigration has curbed its capacity to carry out attacks in Europe." https://t.co/FA2ILVe8A6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 29, 2017
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One reason letting Paul Ryan tackle "comprehensive tax reform" might not be so bad for Trump's presidency …https://t.co/i1im4eq2oC
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 29, 2017
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Then add #Medicare55 and you have something that can pass Senate with bipartisan support! … https://t.co/LwWKZByCQQ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 29, 2017
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That'll Keep 'Em Busy https://t.co/i1im4eq2oC
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 29, 2017
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Is tax reform next on Congress’ agenda? Political observers scoff — tax reform’s hard, they note, harder than abolishing Obamacare. If the GOPs can’t do the former, how are they going to do the latter? Another defeat for Trump looms, etc.
I’m not so sure a new tax reform push is bad for Trump. Think of it in crude terms. “Comprehensive tax reform” means everybody on K St makes money. It’s comprehensive, after all — meaning it threatens every business in America with higher taxes or dangles in front of them the prospect of lower taxes. They all have to hire lobbyists to protect their positions. Clients all around! Tax reform is to Washington what pilot season is to Hollywood. (“Everybody works in pilot season.”)
Even better, the reform doesn’t have to actually pass to have these lucrative consequences. It just has to be threatened considered. And it can be considered for a loooong time. Just by bringing it up. Trump ties up half of Paul Ryan’s aides, plus 70% of the lobbyists in Washington who’ll be sucking up to those aides, attending meetings on rates and alternative tax schedules, trying to neutralize all the lobbyists on the other side (but not too decisively, lest the battle end quickly). They’ll be too fat-and-happily occupied to make much trouble pushing another Gang of 8 amnesty (though they’ll try, of course).
And if they ever do threaten Trump’s core agenda on trade, infrastructure and immigration, he’ll have a terrifying new threat to hold over their heads, one that would leave them facing the grim prospect of losing the deposit on their Aston Martins — or putting their kids through college by actually practicing law. Just a tweet will do, actually:
“Democrats block our cuts, have turned “tax reform” into a trick to defund the military! I am therefore abandoning tax reform until my second term. Shame!”
Nice little protection racket you’ve got there. Too bad if something should happen to it. ….
"Comprehensive tax reform" means everybody on K Street makes money! It's like pilot season in Hollywood. https://t.co/5s5XmRP22S
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 28, 2017
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Byron York: Whatever Trump does next, it has to be about jobs and wages https://t.co/Vjjbx0sTBg via @DCExaminer
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 28, 2017
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Ryan actually thought the 2016 election was about his "Better Way" agenda. There's a big part of your problem … https://t.co/ky3XLclwMa
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 27, 2017
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It was big mistake for Trump to let Paul Ryan hijack his presidency … https://t.co/UlAY6AvTAh
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 27, 2017
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Obamacare is not "simply what a market-oriented nat'l health insurance system looks like." It has a special problem https://t.co/tf3ISJnT1m https://t.co/8bsponf8ao
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 27, 2017
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"They frequently heard from Freedom Caucus members about how much they distrusted Ryan …" https://t.co/M3Dr20juu0
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 27, 2017
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Your Stop-Trump MSM at work: "Trump Effect …40% of colleges See Dip in Foreign Applicants" (But 35% saw increase.) https://t.co/kUiJf5e1bE
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 27, 2017
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