"[W]e have all but ended Catch-and-Release. If you are a family from the northern triangle countries, you are no longer released into the interior of the United States simply because you have a child.” CBP's Morgan is being dramatic to counter smuggler sales pitch. Still … https://t.co/IQmGuFgKpV
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 9, 2019
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Will the Dems be tempted to bend the rules to let Booker debate and avoid the "all-white" charge? (I have no idea, but if they do I want full prescience credit.) https://t.co/9WeRTHgc3e
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 8, 2019
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Not saying Trump necessarily gets credit. Maybe steady improvement started under Obama just reached market-tightening point. Maybe minimum wage laws had an effect. But I'd argue Trump gets at least some credit for restraining the supply of new lower-skilled immigrant workers.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 8, 2019
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Unemployment rate fell steadily since end of Great Recession-ie beginning of Obama's term. But arc of wage stagnation at the *bottom* did not begin to bend upwards until 2017, under Trump, to judge from this CRS graph. https://t.co/qiIKpvAF44 pic.twitter.com/9gpUSHXAiZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 8, 2019
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The Senate? You also have not (so far) persuaded the voters. https://t.co/9ZLDsZYHSt https://t.co/7l8HVNAQX9
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 8, 2019
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What does it say about strength of Democrats' current impeachment case that informed anti-Trumpers now pleading for more time, more investigations? https://t.co/NTUrogHWY4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 8, 2019
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Real wages rising, more at bottom than at top, Inflation low. Marginal workers (ex-cons, disabled) being drawn into employment mainstream. Has any liberal economic commentator admitted that Trump's term is delivering the economy liberals have long wanted? https://t.co/Rwig4xm1nL
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 8, 2019
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Why is it 0% for Hunter Biden? His testimony seems very relevant — if what he did was horribly corrupt then what Trump demanded (an investigation) was in national interest, not his "personal, political interest." So call him & let him dispel stench of influence-peddling (or not) https://t.co/fyLOeSFwoc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 6, 2019
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It's an indication of the clumsiness of the poll-tested "bribery" charge that Rep. Karen Bass-who's on the Judiciary committee-says the problem is Trump "attempting to bribe" Zelensky. [2:05 in] Isn't it that supposedly Trump solicited a bribe for himself? https://t.co/OXt1ES3ere
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 6, 2019
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Reupping … https://t.co/TXIHIl5X6R
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 5, 2019
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Often when people on various forms of welfare are pushed to reconnect with the mainstream economy, they discover they have talents that other people and employers value. (See @JasonDeParle 's American Dream.) This seems a minimal effort to do the pushing. https://t.co/X6Eo2GCLCT
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 5, 2019
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Often when people on various forms of welfare are pushed to reconnect with the mainstream economy, they discover they have actual talents that people value. (See @JasonDeParle 's American Dream.) This seems a minimal effort to do the pushing. https://t.co/X6Eo2GCLCT
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 5, 2019
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Food stamp work requirements are notoriously weak. This seems like an effort to actually enforce those weak work requirements. 3 months part-time over a period of 3 years doesn't seem like a lot to ask in the current economy. (I felt differently in 2009. It's not 2009 anymore.) https://t.co/3UFF6QPwVs
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 5, 2019
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Not clear that voters will want McConnell & Senate GOPs making a big fuss about Ukraine any more than they want House Dems doing it. https://t.co/5pTizw8oYM
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 5, 2019
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CAUTION: Echo chamber at work … https://t.co/Ihs5NCugjr
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 4, 2019
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ET TU, VOX? "Democratic leaders appear to think that staying on impeachment too long would be bad for them politically …" https://t.co/t5vasXPKcc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 4, 2019
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Stay for the crop-by-crop machinery porn at the end.
Nothing that works for kale, though. Yet. https://t.co/qoHQU27E4O
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 4, 2019
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For which Prof. Wilentz was castigated by the MSM — see @NYTimes editorial https://t.co/67Ibbgq3od His statement looks better to history's trackers. https://t.co/UU3DiseAc4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 4, 2019
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On other hand … https://t.co/f6xJ4bCUOq
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 4, 2019
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"Give me a makeweight article of impeachment I can vote against for show" seems like the first step to "You know, do I really have to vote for any articles of impeachment at all?" no? https://t.co/wu6H3nDxUg
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 4, 2019
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"Don't count out Jeremy Corbyn in the UK's general election" https://t.co/MdxNOZKl1e John Ellis on the trouble signs for Boris Johnson behind all the favorable polls. Corbyn is bizarrely now positioned to get the "F— Y–" vote.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 4, 2019
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"Falling impeachment support raises pressure for Democrats on trade" https://t.co/7MWRdSbRqq What is this "falling impeachment support" of which you speak? Apparently moderate Dems are feeling it …
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 4, 2019
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Trump’s trade "bad cop" thinks he has found a winning formula https://t.co/TH5AfIo5pS
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 4, 2019
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Another way to put it: Employee stages "quiet revolt" against his boss, winds up losing job. Stop the presses.
(I don't think it was only because he mentioned Obama in a speech.) https://t.co/6oga698Lbf
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 4, 2019
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.@Xeni smells undernews https://t.co/2iNICrueqR
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 4, 2019
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