And year 2 ? https://t.co/aIbTCZIvGc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 25, 2019
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Monthly Archives: October 2019
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Some perspective: “Under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, the President may determine the terms and conditions under which most forms of assistance are provided.” https://t.co/eJ1mD3u7V5
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 25, 2019
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Essence of a debate in this exchange. https://t.co/7bpqH80pr2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 25, 2019
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So California can let Minneapolis experiment and see what happens before we do the same thing … https://t.co/sWiohUJong
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 25, 2019
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She had me at "electrifying." https://t.co/FS2W65XuGB
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 25, 2019
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.@daveweigel's Trailer is pretty impressive in its thoroughness and calm tone. A lot of work! He does this how often? https://t.co/6sDkCd6z9r
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 25, 2019
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.@weigel's Trailer is pretty impressive in its thoroughness and calm tone. A lot of work! He does this how often? https://t.co/Xx0E4Ztkem
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 25, 2019
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Wouldn't it have been better if Elizbeth Warren had used her wealth tax to fund Medicare for All–a simple, appealing deal–instead of pissing it away on a list of blobbish ed programs? Maybe that's just me. (It could only fund part of M4A. Still.) https://t.co/IYs6yZoQPc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 25, 2019
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"India’s Visa Workers Raise Funds to Launch Attack Ads on U.S. Politicians" https://t.co/Fdyv2vGIE1 Sen. Durbin gets called "the Racist from Illinois"! Such nice folks–don't you want to give them green cards?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 23, 2019
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Explains why Sen. Lee's bill WILL increase # of foreign tech workers: "[I]f Lee unclogs the green card pipeline, then more Indian graduates will flood into…feeder pipelines created by the B-1, TN, OPT, and CPT programs" in order to later get green cards https://t.co/Fdyv2vGIE1
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 23, 2019
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This is also why it's a mistake for Trump and Trumpists to talk about switching to "merit-based" immigration. https://t.co/sRhlHoB28I https://t.co/jXnawYlwbl
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 22, 2019
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At least there is a legislative solution: "Because of the decision, Michigan's political lines will remain in place at least until 2022, when a bipartisan commission created by a statewide referendum last year is expected to take over the process of drawing those boundaries." https://t.co/gUITUylYp3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 22, 2019
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Wait, what is he talking about? Always intrigued by a "fully consensual, polyamorous relationship" with a staffer. … https://t.co/YHtcjAJvag
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 22, 2019
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DID TRUMP'S PULLOUT REALLY HELP ISIS? "On the other hand, the Syrian regime considers ISIS a very threatening enemy, and can be counted on to try to destroy any remnants of ISIS within reach. And …that reach had just been greatly expanded," https://t.co/E5WAk8yao8
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 22, 2019
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When the New York Times warps our view of the world https://t.co/E5WAk8yao8 "Both stories (one by David Sanger and one by Ben Hubbard and Eric Schmitt) kept their preferred narratives—that the wind was in ISIS’s sails—unsullied by fresh analysis."
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 22, 2019
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DON'T F__ WITH THE UKRAINE LOBBY: "U.S. officials were encouraged by Trump’s initial phone call with Zelensky [and] hoped the president would see the new leader as a potential partner in long-standing U.S. efforts to help Ukraine…" But Trump came to a different view-so impeach! https://t.co/eKahebo2B6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 22, 2019
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This is definitely happening: LA liberals are turning against the homeless. https://t.co/0iRSzBshL7
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 22, 2019
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Good point: "[C]asting immigrants as 'exceptional' can foster more resentment among voters." All those STEM-y foreigners will succeed in our new meritocratic economy! Doesn't really appeal to those who resent the new meritocratic economy. https://t.co/XTvlWDUhyo
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 21, 2019
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It's all @RonBrownstein and @TheAtlantic's fault! "[R]esearch shows that talking about the coming 'majority-minority' society and focusing on the 'countdown to that new reality only exacerbates racial anxiety and anti-immigrant sentiments" https://t.co/sMcFCTvDff
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 21, 2019
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Iowa caucusers gave us Michael Dukakis and John Kerry. They have a history of erratic judgment. Buttigieg shouldn't be comfortable fitting so easily into that tradition.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 21, 2019
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"The revenge of the State Department" https://t.co/wsFrY2waEr Unelected bureaucrats demand the right to control US foreign policy no matter who is elected president. This is now an explicit theme of impeachment.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 21, 2019
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Thanks, but "strange new respect" is Tom Bethell's phrase. https://t.co/QJhrZuqcQV
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 21, 2019
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V-useful. 4 out of Trump's 5 reasons for holding up Ukraine aid were OK. York, like @RichLowry, recommends conceding on #5, Biden. Probably sound political advice-was a Nixonian move. But Biden was VP. He's accountable. Will Dems investigate Trump when he leaves offfice? You bet https://t.co/gcXuAgBZwm
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 21, 2019
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Hirschorn thinks Buttigieg is Macron. I think he's Jimmy Carter–promising to clean up government after Trump, but possibly ineffectual. https://t.co/C7UE8S9bf6 Carter had his management theories too (e.g. "zero-based budgeting"). https://t.co/QJg1rHGYNf
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 21, 2019
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My strongly anti-Trump friend @Hirschorn raises issue of whether Hillary got it wrong: why wouldn't a Tulsi 3d party run steal votes from Trump? [Note: Tulsi has abandoned her anti-gay past, thankfully.] https://t.co/Nx9dYozpVk
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 21, 2019
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