Is the "David M. Rubenstein Fellow" at @BrookingsInst free to oppose the carried interest tax break that helped make Rubenstein so rich he could endow fellows at Brookings? https://t.co/9NlrFUIya5 (https://t.co/ba9zEM5qw9)
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 16, 2017
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PS: Trump did not use the word 'trash.' That was @DLind assigning word to him, I think. https://t.co/eHsuR0Nqg3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 16, 2017
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Hmm. Can we tweak that "merit-based" immigration algorithm a bit? A good short order cook would almost certainly be more valuable than this credentialist snob/narcissist ('BUT THEN YOU WOULDN'T HAVE ME!'). https://t.co/lMEQzNau6U
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 16, 2017
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Trump wins on immigration, and that's why the media don't want to talk about it https://t.co/hJDQfPLAsy via @dcexaminer
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 16, 2017
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You mean the Mysteriously Retiring Rep. Gutierrez? … https://t.co/c7DaoXMHYf https://t.co/23IVi3ZsGc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 16, 2017
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Dem's DREAMer Amnesty + Chain Migration Would Exceed Four Years of U.S. Births https://t.co/d1AU1p9GWS
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 16, 2017
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Looks like Ford is moving some car production out of Mexico to … China https://t.co/EG0XfmAnxY Reading between lines, though, there's an opening for a Fusion Surprise (which may be that they stop selling it).
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 16, 2017
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Clear short explanation of "chain migration": https://t.co/15xUA8AYum
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 16, 2017
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Something's missing …. https://t.co/iHNfyTqt5p
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 16, 2017
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Delaying the end of chain migration is the obvious con for mo-immigration senators to try in DACA negotiations. Can delay it again later … https://t.co/CvJSi2QqEv
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 15, 2017
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"strengthens" https://t.co/pUCL3TdsGh
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 15, 2017
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It's work-tested–you have to work to qualify–so it's distinct from other transfer programs (ie old AFDC, food stamps) that don't require work. Big difference. Payroll financing usefully reinforces the point. https://t.co/Q1BOmNZfzn
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 15, 2017
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Hmmm. How angry? America wants to know … https://t.co/tKghH9MMcb
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 15, 2017
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Why doesn't @realDonaldTrump avoid all this by promising to veto any must-pass spending bill that includes a DACA amnesty? https://t.co/Z0tbNQILcm
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 15, 2017
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Yes this is an unfair attack on Ryan. He's a non-racist loose-borders zealot who'd lower wages for all unskilled workers, white or non-white. He's happy to import more people of any color because Magic Kempism will somehow make an infinite # of people succeed https://t.co/PQ64lyeEZT
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 15, 2017
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Short cut to solving Ryan mystery: What does Paul Singer want him to do? https://t.co/5zlniiD55g
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 15, 2017
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Also note the "Ryan will quit" rumor strengthen' his bargaining leverage, esp. with conserv. House dissenters. And he loves to agonize about quitting and make everyone beg him to stay. https://t.co/5zlniiD55g
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 15, 2017
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Obvious flaw in the @SpeakerRyan-will-quit theory: There's no way he gets his white-whale "entitlement reform" in 2018. If he wants it he should want to stay, no? https://t.co/isi6ZgbZ1t
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 15, 2017
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Doug Jones: "More than 109,000 of the DACA recipients served in the military and naturalized as citizens as of 2015." I call BS. There are about 800K DACAns. Participation in the military is measured in hundreds. https://t.co/A0lS5brGOf https://t.co/3p1IvIchoZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 14, 2017
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The unifying theory on why we're told to abandon terms is provided by Evan Kemp in this v-good William Raspberrry column https://t.co/8ajcmAWap5 https://t.co/1ku9XIDU7V
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 14, 2017
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See CORRECTION: https://t.co/zIjZ941Kpf Alert reader notes the biggest remaining entitlements *are* popular, so different explanation: It's seen as a GOP attack word. But it's the technical term. https://t.co/7HjDvSpG3Y
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 14, 2017
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I think "pouncing" is the technical term. https://t.co/z4IBTHTA6Y
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 14, 2017
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I think "pouncing" is the technical term. https://t.co/z4IBTHTA6Y
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 14, 2017
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Would it really be a PR scandal at this point if public learned that "Anderson Cooper’s assistant hates Trump"? https://t.co/DdhaJy9Q6R Would be man-bites-dog news if didn't.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 14, 2017
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Schumer always boasts–usually within hours–so yes, he will brag about how he played @RealDonaldTrump. https://t.co/fu324rXk07
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 13, 2017
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