Alternative: They were never scary. https://t.co/EfsCsAjMBj
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 6, 2018
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Monthly Archives: September 2018
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I predict: It's not anybody as high up in the administration as these 4. https://t.co/n0xDxvMgZm
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 6, 2018
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Hmm. It's not him, but he did hire a whole bunch of people, didn't he? https://t.co/HLSe4gMp7z
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 6, 2018
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It's worse than that. The piece doesn't mention any "lying or illegality." Anonymous is *only* thwarting Trump's policy agenda — because it's not Jeb Bush's or John McCain's. https://t.co/16h1UyBPx9
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 6, 2018
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But it could be the Department of Commerce's Assisant Secretary for Global Markets for all we know. https://t.co/ORF5PjOb9j
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 6, 2018
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What's interesting is what it doesn't say. Doesn't say DT's bringing autocracy to America. Doesn't say he's existential threat or almost caused WWIII. Instead author claims to be thwarting DT's' "more misguided impulses"-i.e. anywhere he deviates from establishment GOP orthodoxy. https://t.co/cixEyL2sN4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 6, 2018
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Trump's overreacting to Anonymous too! Like Woodward's book it doesn't seem la big deal (agree w/ @AriFleischer). Little that's new. Trump's style is "impetuous, adversarial" etc. Duh. It's a paint-by-numbers Trump critique anyone could have written. https://t.co/Jp5kKk1kTB
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 6, 2018
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So the DHS bill gets held over. Can't Trump take another dept's bill hostage–ie one Dems like–so that in the lame duck it can be 'Dems get what they want if I get what I want?' (Would challenge Congress to pass a CR for the hostage dept. Worst outcome: only a partial shutdown.) https://t.co/xdMDJ2K7nB
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 6, 2018
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Mulvaney is also the guy who rushed out to say Trump would sign the omnibus budget (that screwed him on immigration)–trying to lock him in. Mulvaney so NOT on board with Trump immigration agenda. He might as well be Anonymous. https://t.co/YAxn41jxKu
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 5, 2018
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So maybe Trump *didn't* tell Paul Ryan behind closed doors that there wouldn't be a shutdown … https://t.co/zVhMZNC759
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 5, 2018
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'He is my lodestar.' https://t.co/HhFBEWEY5R
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 5, 2018
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Kiss of death https://t.co/y6Q6zu6j7E
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 5, 2018
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??? It's easy to imagine. https://t.co/WJpuXxuPsh
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 5, 2018
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This seems a poor decision for border-controllers, whose policies are always more popular among politicians facing imminent judgment by voters (as opposed to lame ducks looking to donors for their next jobs). But a lot depends on whether a shutdown would help GOPs retain House. https://t.co/MmlB9mxUT6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 5, 2018
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Thread … Or you could dramatically means-test Social Security, Australia-style, and use the money to cover the giant inevitable expenses of Medicare for All. Why look at Social Security as self-contained, let-this-tub-rest-on-its-own-bottom problem? https://t.co/xiehoTtzZh https://t.co/dUTS0h9UhS
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 5, 2018
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*possibly https://t.co/nGVfr7bc3V
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 5, 2018
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Truman on Eisenhower: “He’ll sit right here and he’ll say do this, do that! And nothing will happen. Poor Ike—it wont be a bit like the Army. He’ll find it very frustrating.” Though this time the bureaucrats will glorify themselves in op-eds. https://t.co/6mIsZNINR5 https://t.co/il9twax4QL
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 5, 2018
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How different is this from Yes Minister, albeit with a self-righteous McCain/Ryan gloss? https://t.co/Jp5kKk1kTB
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 5, 2018
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So we're going to invoke the 25th Amendment (according to the anonymous Ryanist bureaucrat) to depose a President because he doesn't believe sufficiently in "free markets" and is "anti-trade" — and liberal Democrats are going to cheer it on? https://t.co/1OoOTqgXub
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 5, 2018
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Except that it was quite possible rewritten by NYT editors. https://t.co/B5Kqq9qrzG
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 5, 2018
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Also it doesn't say he's a political appointee right? Could be career civil servant (who happens to be orthodox Ryanist Republican). The real horror for Trump is many of his *political* appointees are also orthodox Ryanist Republicans trying to block him.
(Or else it's Jared) https://t.co/ohmUcsE8SL
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 5, 2018
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Finally some good midterm news for the GOP https://t.co/6ctUtG38w0
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 5, 2018
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Weird that people whose whole theory of politics depends on tribalism-the Coalition of the Ascendant, 'Republicans Gotta-Win-Over-Latinos,' the Next America, etc–now pose themselves as against "tribalism." https://t.co/Jp5kKk1kTB
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 5, 2018
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Weird that people whose whole theory of politics depends on tribalism-the Coalition of the Ascendant, 'Republicans Gotta-Win-Over-Latinos,' the Next America, etc–now pose themselves as against "tribalism." https://t.co/Jp5kKk1kTB
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 5, 2018
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Paul Ryan write this? https://t.co/Jp5kKk1kTB
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 5, 2018
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