'Dukakis got an unfortunate boost from Iowa,' might be a good way to put it. As @greenfield64 notes, he didn't win. https://t.co/RbXZlBVOaK
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 18, 2019
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Here's a link for Hopkins https://t.co/tmVuQU2fBu
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 18, 2019
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Did Rusk (Secy of State) feel there was a process and it was circumvented? (I don't know but suspect yes). I do know that FDR's Sec of State felt that the process had been cirumvented when FDR sent informal adviser Harry Hopkins to talk to Churchill about Lend Lease. Impeach! https://t.co/Xnet8p0vnQ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 18, 2019
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Thanks. In both cases elected president rejected what his formal advisers were advising, went around. Seems analogous! How does it make a huge difference if the advisers were part of bigger non-improvised "process"? Think you have to make the argument on substance not process https://t.co/K6uvZjaU6A
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 18, 2019
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"Policymaking process" (eg "the interagency," the whole apparatus) does not = democracy. Nobody elected Vindman. https://t.co/bd0sYMCbEF
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 18, 2019
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You tell him https://t.co/o6Jp3EVgqu
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 18, 2019
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I'm gonna need more than that, Fred https://t.co/RsPwG2rizv
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 18, 2019
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If it were impeachable to 'subvert the policymaking process' then JFK would've been impeached in '62 for sending his brother to circumvent normal channels & promise Khrushchev we'd pull missiles out of Turkey, thus avoiding nuclear war. https://t.co/HPg7ovVlBp [Search for "Rusk"] https://t.co/O6b5Wbij3O
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 17, 2019
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Without the Ukraine v. Russia cause as the "engine," @RobertWrighter is left with wanting to impeach Trump for subverting "the policymaking process"–even though he concedes that process yielded questionable policy. Weak! https://t.co/5MLc6hXSix
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 17, 2019
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"[M]aking [the Russia/Ukraine] conflict the rhetorical engine of impeachment—or going further & putting it at the “heart” of the substantive argument [has] bad consequences." But it IS at the heart of thinking that Trump's strongarming was a "high crime." https://t.co/0tAyBtP2q6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 17, 2019
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"Russian belligerence, including in Ukraine, has, more than we realize, resulted from Russian perceptions of American menace—including the not wholly unfounded perception that America abetted the extra-constitutional removal of Ukraine’s president in 2014" https://t.co/0tAyBtP2q6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 17, 2019
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This seems @Voxdotcom-style journalism: Give the home team just enough so it can in good conscience stick with the party line. "Top officials … dismissed the notion." Well, allright then! Carry on. https://t.co/x9Tlvc0mWr
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 17, 2019
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Hmm. Iowans came to resent Howard Dean's orange-hat brigade. This seems like a different vibe. (But always remember: Iowa caucusers have terrible judgment –President Dukakis, President Kerry.) https://t.co/CdodxQIUCU
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 17, 2019
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.@meghan_daum says in her book that her generation (X) had less gendered toys/entertainment. "We were allowed to identify with our personhood before our girlhood or boyhood." Seems to blame Disney for subsequent princessification. https://t.co/p2B9I3goXp
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 17, 2019
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Not *sole* purpose–I think the security concern is legit. But this would call Schiff's bluff–is he really just trying to keep the whistleblower's ties & views out of debate–because he feels voters will consider that info very relevant, even if he doesn't? https://t.co/k3ETB0R3T6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 17, 2019
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Not bandying about his name in public would reduce the security threat by minimizing the universe of people who could harrass him. Yes, hostile Web users (mainly on the right) already know who he is. That's water under the bridge, security-wise. But not everyone does. 2/2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 17, 2019
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Why isn't this the solution to the whistleblower dilemma: Tell everything important about him, including his political ties and Ukraine views–just don't give his name? Sure, the details about him would identify him to reporters. But reporters already know who he is. 1/2 https://t.co/XrU47R7GQL
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 17, 2019
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"[Voters] certainly don't trust the democratic establishment to be the arbiters of moral behavior and good government. Not when they still can't even bring themselves to acknowledge that Hunter Biden cashing in on daddy's name is hardly a noble act" https://t.co/1pLzjexMLo
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 17, 2019
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How is @jbarro so sure "Jeffrey Epstein killed himself"? (I don't know what happened, but I know I'm not sure) https://t.co/Fr3VRxvP9Y (37:40 in)
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 17, 2019
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How is @joshbarro so sure "Jeffrey Epstein killed himself"? (I don't know what happened, but I know I'm not sure) https://t.co/qphZ41hADO (37:40 in)
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 17, 2019
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Always trust content from kausfiles (including the peak-too-early part) … https://t.co/lGfuCDqxD2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 17, 2019
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"Trained Paul Ryan for the VP debate" — which he lost to Biden — isn't something you want people to remember about you … https://t.co/0kehToyItW
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 17, 2019
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.@jackshafer describes MSM stories like this about WB as "a sloppy burlesque, stripping off a feathered boa here, a slip skirt there …" https://t.co/EE3lD49vik But is there some skin they're still covering? https://t.co/XrU47R7GQL
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 16, 2019
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OPINION | The Press Should Name the Whistleblower https://t.co/tATubXrJwN
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 16, 2019
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If @washingtonpost can write this about WB–cubicle, a bit of employment history, duties at NSC, security–why can't other, more conservative MSM outlets tell us other details about him –ties to Biden? Dems? Ukrainiacs?–as long as they don't mention his name? https://t.co/aqaHNgAtbf
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 16, 2019
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