Trump Hunting for Funds Would Pay for 100 Miles of Border ‘Wall’ https://t.co/0dmHxRc3fV Some details here I haven't seen elsewhere …
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 19, 2018
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Monthly Archives: December 2018
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He definitely needs to make the case for the wall in some forum other than tweeting or arguing with Chuck & Nancy. https://t.co/pp1WnXpWQe
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 18, 2018
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QUIEN ES MAS MACHO? Wall may be a "manhood" issue to Trump (I'd say it's symbolic & also a policy that will work) but it's sure a manhood issue to Dems humiliated by Trump's win. How do they pivot from theraputic gloating to telling voters they care about controlling immigration? https://t.co/RsFuZhJh2J
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 18, 2018
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"Immigration Realists Should Love this Corporate Cheap Labor Lobby Immigration Study" https://t.co/CPv5uYOH6m
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 18, 2018
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TRUMP WAS CONNED, Part XXVII: "Congressional Republicans promised Trump several months ago that if he would delay a fight over the border wall until after the midterm elections, they would help him obtain the money in December." He believed them? https://t.co/LhuLBilHDi
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 18, 2018
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Ann Bardach (@albardach) for the defense! https://t.co/PZRg0oAQVh https://t.co/qDhYXpohwK
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 18, 2018
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The two (Wall, minimum wage) are organically related. Both seek to raise wages at bottom of economy. A wall would restrict supply of illegal low wage labor, raising market wages closer to $12 minimum (or higher). And you'll need wall to block the illegals min. wage would attract. https://t.co/IfghXx3ogI
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 18, 2018
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SHAKE THINGS UP: What if @RealDonaldTrump packaged his wall with a $12 MINIMUM WAGE? Might prod some Dems to fresh appreciation of wall's virtues: saves live, more acceptable to undocumenteds than other remedies (ie more ICE). Why pursue macho fight with concrete gains in reach?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 18, 2018
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Don't think that works. Depends where plane's going, no? If you take a plane each week from the state capital to your home district does it suddenly become a campaign expense a year before an election? If DT's been hushing a mistress a month looks less campaigny by any definition https://t.co/cSwceiwyzf
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 18, 2018
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OK, I realize this may be getting repetitive. Enough on my views about the wall.
What does Stephen Miller think about the wall? https://t.co/jgJQY6mfFJ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 18, 2018
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Again, if the aptly named David Pecker has been hushing up sex scandals for Trump since 2000, that HELPS Trump's legal defense. Makes the latest hushings look less like 2016 campaign contributions and more like business as usual. https://t.co/PZRg0oAQVh
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 18, 2018
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Seems like a lot of DUI … https://t.co/nPwcZXt6gY
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 18, 2018
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Glad my tax dollars going to this… https://t.co/GU6ITFg4ru
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 17, 2018
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Trump's been delivering on his promise to bring America's long-time losers (blue collar workers) back into the winners' circle–which is ultimately his most important promise. Nothing permanent, and Obama shares credit, but still. Wrong to ignore this (or see it as a "problem"). https://t.co/tB4Ya3Zact
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 17, 2018
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Trump's failed to get his wall or any major legislative improvements on immigration, but he's still almost certainly kept something of a lid on what otherwise would be a much bigger influx of unskilled immigrants lured by the strong economy. https://t.co/YvWM70EogD
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 17, 2018
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YES IT'S PARTLY TRUMP'S FAULT: "Tighter restrictions on immigration are also playing a role and will continue to do so in the future," said Moody’s Analytics Inc.’s [Mark] Zandi. "Many of those foreign workers are lower-skilled and in industries such as construction and farming." https://t.co/tB4Ya3Zact
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 17, 2018
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Blue collar wages rise, inequality lower, gender barriers fall. https://t.co/WX4yUXnovu “Lower income workers are doing better,” Moody’s Zandi said. “The balance of power has shifted from employers to employees.”
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 17, 2018
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Sen. Cornyn: "Criminal justice reform" a model for bipartisan border wall sellout. "(Scanning devices"! A holistic approach! "Examine the larger problems contributing to the crisis." Anything but a wall.) https://t.co/pJnmk1PPp0
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 16, 2018
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MULVANEY=NO WALL, EVER "Mulvaney…was already urging Trump to kick the deadline into January." https://t.co/GknFxEYbUm
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 16, 2018
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.@DavidAFrench seems to think it's fine to force candidates to label something "personal" or "campaign" and face criminal charges EITHER WAY if they get it wrong 1/ https://t.co/iQJd8w9wgv
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 16, 2018
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Correction: Clothes–eg suits– are specifically listed in the statute as "personal" expenses. https://t.co/mpwkabso5s But there are many other expenses-@RichLowry suggests child care-that we might think "personal" that could be partly campaign-motivated. https://t.co/aGSw4ZfCAo https://t.co/DOichiEcLu
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 16, 2018
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So who leaked this to the media? (A: "an official with knowledge of the conversation." Well allright then.) https://t.co/DiNCAYBQmz
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 15, 2018
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SELLOUT WAITING TO HAPPEN III: Mulvaney laments end of 2014 amnesty push:
"I think the thing that was encouraging was before the meltdown on the southwestern border, it’s fair to say that there were a majority of Republicans who wanted to take it up now." https://t.co/GUBhIidSmF— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 15, 2018
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Rep. LUIS GUTIÉRREZ:
Is Mulvaney helping you?
Rep. MARIO DÍAZ-BALART:
It’s big time. He wants yes!…
CESAR GONZALEZ:
But the good thing about him is his district is next door to Trey Gowdy’s…Mulvaney is key to getting him because he provides the coverhttps://t.co/GUBhIhWhv7— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 15, 2018
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SELLOUT WAITING TO HAPPEN II: Here's NYT in 2014 giving Mulvaney Strange New Respect for his embrace of "some kind of legal status, although not a path to citizenship, for many immigrants living in the country illegally." https://t.co/bmvygkDAlc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 15, 2018
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