"Democratic"! But yes. https://t.co/Kb2ig7Jjr6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 5, 2018
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Monthly Archives: June 2018
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Officials say they were "runder huge pressure" to "reduce an asylum backlog, and that quality of asylum decisions suffered drastically." That's their *defense*. https://t.co/2MtKVe4mnF
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 5, 2018
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Hmm. @Politico says they're "expected to easily clear that threshold." Someone's wrong! https://t.co/I42HhBwiBd https://t.co/20kCAGMg6H
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 4, 2018
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Quote is about 44 min. into the show.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 4, 2018
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Dem consultant on @KCRW, discussing Latino-heavy Cong. farm districts where GOPs threatened: "When we talk about immigration more broadly as an issue we may not be talking about our strongest wedge." Health care, enviro, polls better. https://t.co/GMNy63ok5t
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 4, 2018
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SCOTUS will now police government debate for “even subtle departures from neutrality on matters of religion"? https://t.co/YEGkStGBk7 Justice Kennedy seems to be constructing his own version of college speech codes for government officials …
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 4, 2018
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The Coppins piece I read doesn't have any "anger at some sort of 7th grade gym class humiliation." That's some sort of cool kids fantasy that's going around–"if only he were popular like me!" People who work with Miller seem to get along fine with him. https://t.co/NrLDou1VO9
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 4, 2018
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Now do Victoria Nuland. (The actual Grennell quotes don't say he wants to unseat Merkel. Maybe that would arguably be further than Nuland publicly went in Ukraine–if he had said that.) https://t.co/XxVtklod4F
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 4, 2018
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I'll put you down as "undecided." https://t.co/LXBZgL2HIW
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 3, 2018
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I will always remember when I first heard "Darkness on the Edge of Town." Like most Bruce Springsteen albums, it was a crushing disappointment to anyone who's seen him live. https://t.co/q2cCe7JOXD
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 3, 2018
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Like being able to get libraries to go into the stacks and rip out the pages of old magazine articles you'd written that you no longer like. [Wait, that's a great idea!-ed But it would be wrong] https://t.co/BcGyW6b3m3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 3, 2018
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Costco raising minimum wage to $14 an hour https://t.co/QQmS116WWK Seems like a big deal. This isn't just one pioneering Chick-Fil-A franchiser raising his wages to $17.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 3, 2018
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This raises issue: Is Denham, who's definitely in a close race, pushing his amnesty to please constituents, or is he really doing it to get campaign $$ from Kochs and other loose-border donors? The amnesty won't help him, if this poll is correct. The $$ might https://t.co/UNzFvypL9p
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 3, 2018
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The most amazing result, to me, was that Denham's Hispanic constituents oppose chain (ie extended family) migration by a 58-29 margin. https://t.co/cZZWDw5sAu https://t.co/UNzFvypL9p
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 3, 2018
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Even "Strange New Respect" Denham's constituents seem to want E-Verify. Even his Hispanic constituents want E-Verify. https://t.co/JWMETN7nzy They generally seem to favor Goodlatte's bill over Denham's approach.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 3, 2018
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Will the left's long-time goal of a "living wage" finally become a reality under … Trump? Seems within sight if labor markets keep tightening, no? https://t.co/cZZWDw5sAu
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 3, 2018
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Skeptical of @JonathanWeisman's judgment on immigration since his way-off coverage of 2007 amnesty bill. Here's his sunny, boosterish story ("Backers of Immigration BIll More Optimistic") 3 days before Sen. vote killed it https://t.co/o8UuaQ6mdX https://t.co/fVcIlspydv
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 3, 2018
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I think the point is that if he did these things he'd have *more* leverage over Congress, not less. Right now loose border lobby has power because they're not unhappy with border status quo. https://t.co/tb7eZTu9xv
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 3, 2018
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Looks like there's at least one paragraph (between grafs 1 and 2) omitted from the @newrepublic digital version of the greatest book review ever. https://t.co/8ADXXch88V
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 3, 2018
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"the new automation wave could displace 2.5 million workers a year.
… Wages, and not jobs themselves, are the key issue, economists seem to agree." So why do we need more unskilled immigrants? A: We don't. https://t.co/V7gNAWkBgk— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 3, 2018
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Trump cld be doing a lot more to block the border surge. For ex., He cld make asylum seekers apply at US embassy in Mexico City https://t.co/K6r4LpfJlq Instead he claims he's powerless in order to beg Congress to change the law. Not what FDR would do & not what expected of Trump
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 3, 2018
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"A vote to toughen immigration rules and harm the young Dreamers would further energize Democratic voters." You think this is a factor? Seems like Dem voters are about as energized as they can get already. @NYT (at best) foolishly trying for symmetry. htps://nyti.ms/2LNsOsM
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 3, 2018
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This is inadequate–you think this is Strange New Respect? We need a @NYT puffer on *every* Republican who signed the amnesty discharge petition. At least a dozen more to go. https://t.co/1JVLnU55Gd
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 3, 2018
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DEFENDING AGAINST THE CHARGE THAT THEIR CASH-FOR-GREEN-CARDS ROADSHOW TRADED ON THEIR TRUMP CONNECTION:
Charlie Kushner & Laurent Morali: "We don’t speak Chinese!"
(Family erupts in laughter)
Charlie Kushner "How the hell do we know what they were saying?"https://t.co/ncJcC0uQWG— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 3, 2018
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I didn't realize (or had forgotten) that the Kushners'plans for 666 Fifth had to be scrapped because they were planning to use the ridiculouse EB-5 green-cards-for-cash program, and the heat got too hot https://t.co/ncJcC0uQWG
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 3, 2018
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