Jared on criminal justice reform: "This was not a D’s versus R’s, this was really us versus them.” Who's the them?
(Crime victims? Sheriffs? Senators Cotton Enzi, Kennedy, Murkowski, Risch, Rounds, Rubio, Sullivan, Barrasso?)
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 23, 2019
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Lobbyist cites "his willingness to hear from all stakeholders, including even those who operate on K Street." https://t.co/z1daOycWM6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 23, 2019
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Lobbyist lauds "his willingness to hear from all stakeholders, including even those who operate on K Street." https://t.co/z1daOycWM6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 23, 2019
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But Phish … https://t.co/es9da9g13d
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 22, 2019
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Miller approach seems better than issuing orders from the top and assuming the chain of command in the bureaucracy will carry them out (or that discordant info will flow up to the WH). https://t.co/kwq19l36iU
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 22, 2019
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CASUAL EMPRICISM: I'd estimate that the percent of my Dem. friends who've been chastened by the Mueller report and are less determined to formally punish Trump by impeachment or investigation (not just 2020 defeat) is approximately zero. They've doubled down. At least for now.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 22, 2019
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Re: the oddly-timed @StephenMoore pro-immigration op-ed … https://t.co/dS4Xl4Y7Rn
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 22, 2019
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E-Verify has moved to the cloud. Ready for expansion! https://t.co/t9jH9nZrZc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 21, 2019
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Seems an odd column to write when your nomination is hanging by a thread https://t.co/PpIhOCvpbx Or does it appeal to a few key senators (and to hell with Trump's immigration-control base)? https://t.co/A6S1PfqEaI
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 21, 2019
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TRUMP A BUST? "The result: an election that should have realigned the country, had almost no effect. Two years later, virtually nothing has changed." Forceful, non-obvious last half-graf from @TuckerCarlson. https://t.co/ABL5c1XJLE
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 21, 2019
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Always risky for a politician to actually solve the problem he or she was elected to solve. Trump is just being extra careful to avoid falling into that trap on immigration. https://t.co/cuVXNM5M0Q
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 20, 2019
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Can't lay it on too thick https://t.co/OIoggOoHSK
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 20, 2019
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Save us from the starchitects https://t.co/S2WEcW83tu
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 20, 2019
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Also excluding McClatchy–they're just some chain https://t.co/mv3bTQlraw and Buzzfeed… https://t.co/xc82EB9Nib
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 20, 2019
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Solving a problem's a risky move for any politician. But voters do sometimes reward achievement. Was Clinton punished for passing the 96 welfare reform?
Or is Trump just being super cautious by not getting anywhere near success on immigration? That must be it. Why take chances! https://t.co/TOBd0uuQfN
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 20, 2019
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I dunno. Don't you think it would have been better if Trump had accomplished his agenda & not Paul Ryan's? His failure was so obviously the result of inexperience & incompetence. Success would have left voters free to focus on other subjects … like their rising paychecks. https://t.co/E2qPZxt3Vn
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 20, 2019
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Vicky Ward has more on Kushner and Brooks in this 2017 piece https://t.co/fjjXBdEO5H Only Kushner could land that plane! https://t.co/vUQQqxdsf6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 19, 2019
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So "Tweezer Reprise" starts out appealingly but quickly becomes annoying. https://t.co/9sH0IyfVOM
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 19, 2019
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Quote is from [1st rate] reporter Stephen Dinan, not Pelosi. https://t.co/AgUTohfZDt
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 19, 2019
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**–"as an unindicted co-conspirator. That's how it went down with Nixon."
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 19, 2019
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"Watergate at warp speed," "[Y]ou might wind up with a multi-count criminal indictment in which the president is named**…Bobby three sticks, Robert Swan Mueller the third, is riding to rescue of the Republic"-Tim Weiner, 5/19/17https://t.co/TgPmBy8tw9
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 19, 2019
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"During the last surge of families, in 2014 and 2015, the Obama administration bought thousands of detention beds and detained the families. … When they started getting deported, that earlier surge dried up." https://t.co/rfSpJmJHLd
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 19, 2019
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Buzzfeed said it was "the first known example of Trump explicitly telling a subordinate to lie directly about his own dealings with Russia." Never trust content from @Buzzfeed. https://t.co/j7EHSlyoF0
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 18, 2019
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I.e.: Cheap 'wild man' characterization of Bannon indulged in by the press was wrong (admittedly maybe also promoted by Bannon himself) … https://t.co/nryGeU4LM6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 18, 2019
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Like "Make sure the money to build the wall is in the budget …" ?? https://t.co/DdMVQNIbxh
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 18, 2019
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