The guy who was about to jump got a 12-pack out of the deal. He's a better negotiator than @RealDonaldTrump! At least on immigration, Trump would have gotten 5 empty bottles and said it was a 12-pack. https://t.co/6kueYGiNMi
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 19, 2018
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Exhibit XVIII: Trump and McConnell get along fine as long as Trump drops his immigration agenda https://t.co/tvd1fwB0yr
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 19, 2018
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Not just 'MSNBC panelist' — @nytimes columnist @michelleinbklyn https://t.co/n3i9nHbecR
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 19, 2018
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Rod Was Right and I Was Wrong https://t.co/X2wJ5m86cL
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 19, 2018
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Truth catching up with MSM Instant ICE Outrage cycle. https://t.co/1ZJ9e02oyZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 19, 2018
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JUST DON'T BRING *THAT* UP: Trump and McConnell get along great–forging bonds!–as long as Trump doesn't push his immigration agenda (on which he's gotten pretty much totally stiffed by Congress). https://t.co/LiQj7ZUtDJ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 18, 2018
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I'm stupid: Is it so bad to be called "King Kong" behind your back? https://t.co/sa6f71c6UQ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 18, 2018
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He did violate a key rule ("Never say 'calm down'"). But it worked out anyway. https://t.co/iB3d5UNkPW
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 18, 2018
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"There are 5.1 million people in this country with security clearances. … For the overwhelming majority of officials, the presumption should be that security clearances lapse when they leave their government jobs." https://t.co/KzRQwZ6TQp
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 18, 2018
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“Sense the party’s thought, obey the party’s words, follow the party’s lead.” Mass reeducation camps for Uighurs in China. https://t.co/O8JkYJWcUs
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 18, 2018
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"Mexicans no longer make up the majority of border infiltrators." https://t.co/qpZui1VCeE
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 17, 2018
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OK, but if a Warren-style corporation, sensitive to local "stakeholders," delays moving a factory overseas–how is that result any different than what would happen (more transparently, without lawsuits) from a tariff? https://t.co/sy18vAoVKt
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 17, 2018
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Newsom significantly less awful (ie immature, self-admiring) than when saw him interviewed in 2008. Has overweening faith in Coalition of the Ascendant, though. Lists opposing race preferences as big GOP mistake (along with Prop 187, 3-strikes crime law). Do Asian voters agree? https://t.co/6qA4wHb0Y6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 17, 2018
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“A lot of these bills are really punitive — it’s more funding for the wall, it’s more enforcement,” — Pablo Morales , Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Action Fund. https://t.co/64Uk5BCMDT
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 16, 2018
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Elizabeth Warren opts for Business Roundtable corporatism–big corporations given special legal status, obligations to "stakeholders," enforced by lawsuits! Seems like epic disaster in both theory and practice. https://t.co/lUOsqpIZ7W via @voxdotcom
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 16, 2018
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— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 15, 2018
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Too hot for @TheAtlantic ! https://t.co/uXHsdtTAeo
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 15, 2018
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I think welfare reform would've been a success if it resulted in AFDC-dependent poor Americans becoming working poor with no change in income, for a) social inclusion b) future mobility c) social egalitarian reasons. But obviously reduction in poverty a major goal as well. https://t.co/gyArYWKB8e
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 14, 2018
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Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys have the best song** on the Rhino "Best of New Orleans" CD, which is saying something.
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** "La Creve de Faim" https://t.co/lPzuXFm5vt— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 14, 2018
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Makes good point: How do you come to US if you have no relatives already here? Chain migration makes that hard, no? (Preferences go to extended families.) Today's Wolf-Leib Glosser might be crowded out and excluded. https://t.co/p9VoyKaMjS
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 14, 2018
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Trying to remember which student radical appearing on my campus made this point in the '60s. … Was it Carl Oglesby? https://t.co/TAjKBAks6l
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 14, 2018
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If it's the Coalition of the Ascendant you're talking about … well, I would think Latino voters would be very sensitive to rising crime due to Prop 47. https://t.co/OnwcH7iX55
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 14, 2018
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GOP candidate for CA governor, @TheRealJohnHCox, is CRAZY if he doesn't make Prop 47 & crime a big issue in home stretch. One of ways people feel the state is going in wrong direction. Even if (as likely) Cox doesn't win, it saddles Dems with legit doubts. https://t.co/vf5t8rQCTb
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 14, 2018
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California's Prop. 47 turned smash-&-grab thefts (of less than $950) into misdemeanors. Cops don't even bother to follow up, since jail time unlikely. Instead, they're RAMPING UP THE VICTIM-BLAMING.
Remember, if you're robbed, it's your fault! https://t.co/uz1DRx7R9w https://t.co/2KeE7IVxV2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 14, 2018
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Perdue forced to hire locally? I hadn't realized the refugee/cheap labor connections was that explicit. https://t.co/eg3UDjAous
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 13, 2018
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