A paragraph I seem to have left out of my old TNR piece on Sen. Hollings: https://t.co/qUryhDiwQg
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Speeches I “wrote” in 1984 for Senator Hollings (when he was running for president) mainly just pieced together various riffs he’d developed on his own. One of them was his justification for spending on the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) nutrition program, based on his understanding of early brain development. I’m reconstructing this from memory but it went something like this:
HOLLINGS: “An adult human being has 100 billion brain cells, and they’re all there before age 4. When that brain isn’t nourished, it’s like taking a TV set and dropping it off the table. Pretty soon that child grows up, he has trouble learning, he’s dropping out of school, he’s in the ghetto, he’s into crime, and I’ve learned it’s cheaper to feed the child than jail the man.”
ME: “Senator, I don’t think you should say ‘ghetto.'”
HOLLINGS: “Well, Dr. Kaus, where is the crime?”
ME: “It’s in the ghetto, sir. But I don’t think you should say that.”
[Hollings didn’t respond. But he stopped saying it.]
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— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 10, 2019
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Not really. TRUMP: "I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists." https://t.co/E5laFTGcfX
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Any of these Dem ideas sound like they will curb the mass abuse of asylum laws (if it's still true that if you show up with a child, you'll probably be released into the US, even if you'll lose your case)? https://t.co/IRx3xrPQ9X
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EVERYONE THINKS IT'S UNSUSTAINABLE: "Frank Sharry…tells me that some in the immigration advocacy community are increasingly convinced that Democrats need an ambitious agenda.. in response to the current situation, which really is becoming unsustainable." https://t.co/AaelIE7lsM
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Any of these Dem ideas sound like they will curb the mass abuse of asylum laws (if it's still true that if you show up with a child, you'll probably be releaset into the US, even if you'll lose your case)? https://t.co/AaelIE7lsM
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 10, 2019
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In other words, it's not a spatial limit (we obviously have plenty of physical space) but a socio-economic limit (we want to have a society where unskilled workers are full, equal participants) https://t.co/BcwIA6T6Fx
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 10, 2019
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This (excellent) story also explains the administration's beef with highly regarded USCIS head Cissna https://t.co/CJMNxRWXAr
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"Full" is way to explain why we're not positioned to take in worthy unskilled walk-ins the way we were in earlier eras-i.e. our economy's changed, unskilled work's been devalued & will be further threatened by robots. Can't accomodate more unskilled without ripping up our society https://t.co/LI0DKOUChf
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 9, 2019
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Needs fleshing out-ed. Is this an anti-Cissna post? https://t.co/7ImPeru3jE
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 9, 2019
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Crazy, yes. But don't think there's a broad judicial push for open borders. There's a broad judicial push to Block Trump. If President Hillary Clinton had cut the same deal with Mexico I suspect it would be upheld even at District Court level. https://t.co/JWILrlBxsf
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 9, 2019
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If you're looking for a 'defining moment' where Trump blew his last, best shot on immigration, I'd suggest his signing the "omnibus" budget in Mar., 2018 after expressing misgivings that it didn't fund the wall. He had leverage then-lots of funding in that bill Dems & GOPs wanted
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 9, 2019
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This canard refuses to die. The bill in question, the Rounds bill, wrote Obama's immigration priorities into law. In effect told all 11+M illegals in interior (not just 1.8M DREAMers) 'You're home free.' https://t.co/omtZ4I95HV 'Nothing' was preferable. https://t.co/YIiVReoAtT
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 9, 2019
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"That crowd the Chamber of Commerce is no longer interested in Main Street America. They're interested in Main Street Beijing." Hollings was arguably *way* ahead of his time warning about the effects of global free trade on American workers and towns. https://t.co/d1yQiQXca6 https://t.co/IEcvgEE1dG
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 8, 2019
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"I got it right down the street from where you got that wig."– On ABC's 'This Week' in 1990, when Sam Donaldson asked him where he got his 'Korean suit.' https://t.co/d1yQiQXca6 https://t.co/IEcvgEE1dG
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 8, 2019
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Part of Hollings' problem, as a national candidate, was his accent. Not a standard Southern accent but a weird South Carolinian niche thing–sounds Scottish. ("White Hoose" for White House.) Still enough for many insular New York Democrats to dismiss him, I discovered. https://t.co/IEcvgEE1dG
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The best, as in most perceptive, piece I read on Hollings was a column by Murray Kempton around 1984. Can't find it on Web though. https://t.co/IEcvgEE1dG
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 8, 2019
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Useful intra-Carney fratricide. #TeamJohn. Worries about population decline have become key justification for disastrous loose-border policies. Don't think Trump was saying ZPG or "zero immigration forever."" https://t.co/zOM0Gzg1ix
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Running for governor against McAuliffe, Cuccinelli seems to have vaguely embraced some form of "comprehensive" amnesty. https://t.co/N90nUNjkQm https://t.co/43vMl53h3O
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 8, 2019
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Cuccinelli's response does quote somebody saying he "suggested an approach he would support would be to have the state government go first." That's consistent with him opposing mandatory E-Verify for businesses right away. https://t.co/s7LmlGHthh
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 8, 2019
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Even more to the point, here's Cuccinelli opposing mandatory E-Verify to screen potential hires' immigration status. … https://t.co/aTbc0uYqtw https://t.co/qEXQZKT4u7
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 8, 2019
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Seems bizarre that left opponents of Trump re border have suddenly decided to base their case on a falsehood..** Don't they have a lot of other material to work with? Maybe not.
**–Whatever he meant, Trump clearly wasn't referring to *asylum-seekers* when he said "animals." https://t.co/JHcxFb2SYW— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 8, 2019
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PS: "Among those pushing the president to remove Nielsen was national security adviser John Bolton, who repeatedly told the president he didn’t believe she was the right fit for the job," https://t.co/45D4wUALcp
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Aha. Always thought the "Miller's driving everything" rationale was too pat. https://t.co/NPVUk22tGs
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 8, 2019
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