Any story that uses the phrase "completely blocked by vehicle and pedestrian fencing" should thrown in trash immediately. This is "vehicle fencing." https://t.co/g8bqeuSi1F https://t.co/0ievSg4lhq
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 14, 2019
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This is a Cadillac? https://t.co/FDQC7fJBto
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 14, 2019
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Are Trump voters "racists and xenophobes"? Tonelson says a recent Grinnell College poll "exposed those allegations as hokum." https://t.co/Mr8Ja677Fa
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 14, 2019
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SEEMS ABOUT RIGHT: Excess immigration of labor "forces down wages and lowers the material and moral position of the English working class. It is the secret by which the capitalist class maintains its power.” +1 to this Marx fellow https://t.co/WlDYUGoCuR
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 14, 2019
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My interpretation: Graham is in it for the amnesty (DACA or bigger) not the Wall. When prospect for an amnesty deal fades, so does his fortitude. https://t.co/UdPLMLf2Na
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 14, 2019
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In the late 19th century, "Labor unions and other progressives of the era saw limits on immigration as a necessary condition for improving the lot of American workers." https://t.co/WlDYUGoCuR
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 14, 2019
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Some Democrats don't think *they* have a clear strategy in the shutdown either. "[M]any new Democratic lawmakers who beat Republicans in the 2018 midterm want their leadership to be more aggressive in at least trying to strike a compromise." https://t.co/PV1CqxRcp3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 14, 2019
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Sen. Packwood had decided NOT to reform the tax system in 1986 until Mike Kinsley mocked him. So? https://t.co/lFQ0fAR3Tv https://t.co/QzPvVF39xV
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 14, 2019
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"The virtual fence does not actually block the entry of anyone like a real wall or fence does," https://t.co/RctznUA4xU
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 14, 2019
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"You Just Fucked It All Up, Mick." Fact check: This needs context. (i.e. True)
Context: He also f—ed it all up for the previous 2 years as head of OMB. https://t.co/ywphvn9qh2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 14, 2019
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MSM-IGNORE THIS POLL! More Americans approve of Trump's handling of the shutdown than approve the Democrats handling of the shutdown. (By a small margin. Still.) https://t.co/x7tjzsy9HZ This is not the poll Pelosi & Schumer were looking for.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 14, 2019
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"But Mr. Trump seizes on conclusions like the G.A.O. report’s about the continued influx of illegal immigrants at the southern border" … How dare he? https://t.co/x9Y115lYaD This is a ridiculous piece. @JillAbramson would not approve this piece.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 13, 2019
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Pelosi wants "technological wall"? https://t.co/V7PoZtcrDg We have tried that approach. It was a miserable failure. https://t.co/7OobJdd3n1
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 13, 2019
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In other words, how does "responsible for" in the poll question automatically become "blame" for in the @washingtonpost story … https://t.co/yOvEqx4GFb
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 13, 2019
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MAN FROM MARS ASKS: Poll shows majority think Trump & GOP [why lump together?] "responsible" for shutdown. Does that mean they don't like the shutdown? What if they support it? https://t.co/7OLeSJPQCh
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 13, 2019
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???? Happens all the time. Cf. — Hunter, Rielle https://t.co/oj8wkDXGTr
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 13, 2019
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Disagree! Gang of 8 2013 immigration plan was a fraud from start to finish https://t.co/8BBO4SJfKu https://t.co/2B8rAYSG3Q
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 13, 2019
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But he licked our homeless problem! Oh wait https://t.co/s6XBAMjrbo
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 13, 2019
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"[T]he fence “changed completely, everything,” Tom Zarate told the Union-Tribune last year. “There’s a lot less crime. Remember there used to be a lot of deaths?"
And those are just the benefits on the MEXICAN side …https://t.co/ueKDhJ23vb
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 13, 2019
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Tight labor market/border control means the "last hired, first fired" get hired. https://t.co/qrX26dWOsd
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 13, 2019
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"[I]t was stupid of Van to put his name on a very stupid '9/11 Truth Statement.'"–his friend, Arianna Huffington (after talking to him and presumably getting his side of the story) https://t.co/VSqYZwRUXG https://t.co/fCVnDrUsYZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 13, 2019
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Subtext of this piece: We've all been saying Trump has no "leverage." Why hasn't he lost yet? https://t.co/WD5hCb6E22
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 13, 2019
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"I’ve covered more than my share of shutdowns." @EzraKlein's now Jack Germond. I am so old. https://t.co/AvV68UZxy4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 13, 2019
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Movement … https://t.co/woHsDH0rBy
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 13, 2019
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Someone should start running independent ads HAMMERING Democrats in more conservative districts/states for stiffing Trump's reasonable wall funding/border security requests, no? (Or is this already going on?)
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 13, 2019
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