This is what Snopes is now? https://t.co/qIMptXjufs
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 5, 2021
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Utah is famously soft on welfare (seriously). https://t.co/JegKDNzpqZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 5, 2021
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February 05, 2021 at 04:45AM
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"[B]udget reconciliation decreases the power of committees and increases the power of the Senate leadership." Is this is obviously bad? Committees kill lotsa good laws; strong Sen. leader (LBJ) can pass them. It's a mad lobbyist scramble at end either way https://t.co/0L52ipOYfg
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 5, 2021
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February 05, 2021 at 02:51AM
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Does MTG ever talk about the Jeffrey Epstein story –an actual, real, largely Democratic pedophile scandal? https://t.co/hKMomSCLR4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 5, 2021
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February 05, 2021 at 01:45AM
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Re-creating welfare for single, never-wed mothers is"the actual agenda of intellectual right-leaning populists"? Huh. I wonder about right-leaning populist *voters* … https://t.co/uzv6NdUDCs
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 5, 2021
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February 05, 2021 at 01:26AM
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How many guns were confiscated? How many shots were fired, and by whom? Basic things we still don't know. Wouldn't it be better to find them out? I(f no guns, not much of a coup.) If Dems can put Trump on trial now they can do it next year too. https://t.co/MbMPTHbHf5
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 5, 2021
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February 05, 2021 at 01:21AM
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It's a big problem when you have generations growing up in households with no work. Economic growth will not lift them up. Kids will have no role models (typically, no fathers). Women who would flourish in work force never find out. I recommend https://t.co/eZ3ycXo80v for reality https://t.co/IwTCWfJdDH
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 5, 2021
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February 05, 2021 at 01:11AM
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Ending AFDC in 1996 had a huge positive work force effect–work by unmarried mothers took a huge jump. Re-creating welfare might be expected to have a negative effect (if you think work is good. I do. It enmeshes people into larger society, for one thing, opens up opportunities). https://t.co/aW64CxzkMP
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 5, 2021
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February 04, 2021 at 09:57PM
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If you think marginal tax rates are everything, maybe. But they're not. The key is whether you CAN get by without doing any work, and a lesson of welfare reform is that people get by on less than you'd think. https://t.co/ENGlc6NCPv
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 5, 2021
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February 04, 2021 at 09:53PM
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Had not heard of this incident:"There’s a moment when the insurrectionists are in the Senate chamber, and one of them… tells the others not to sit in Mike Pence’s chair: 'It belongs to the vice president of the United States…It’s not our chair.'" https://t.co/5i2cDqVQCl
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 5, 2021
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February 04, 2021 at 09:34PM
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At some point the child allowance becomes so large that you've recreated the old welfare (AFDC) program and enabled familes to NOT work at all. Negative social consequences ensue. https://t.co/VzjEtjL3m3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 4, 2021
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February 04, 2021 at 05:48PM
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Not so falsely. Clearly the plan of Obama HHS officials (eg Mark Greenberg) was to drastically water down the work requirements. https://t.co/TsvehCAKl6 https://t.co/LzqlFXHD0b
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 4, 2021
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February 04, 2021 at 05:35PM
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Well, one of them's crazy. One's not.
And one of them stands for Mideast wars. One does not. https://t.co/5mgH9PBDla
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 4, 2021
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February 04, 2021 at 02:20PM
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Japan: "The drop owes in large part to a 60% plunge in foreign arrivals that has kept the labor market tight even though the pandemic has slowed the economy and eliminated many jobs." Natural experiment for effect on wages? (Bet they go up.) https://t.co/yZyJF0O1fJ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 4, 2021
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February 04, 2021 at 01:51PM
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The Biden Administration appears to be losing control of the border with startling rapidity. https://t.co/rznfkojLIu
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 4, 2021
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February 04, 2021 at 12:21PM
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Yikes https://t.co/M2wbMUrz31
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February 04, 2021 at 03:56AM
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HELLO: Lowry doesn't consider that a populist GOP spinoff–free of obsession with tax cuts, Mideeast wars, and repealing Obamacare, concerned with wages & community but not Woke BS–might have some appeal to Dems & Indies … https://t.co/5ziojP0Y2W
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 4, 2021
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February 04, 2021 at 02:56AM
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"[S]muggling guides have intensified their marketing efforts in Guatemala’s destitute rural highlands in recent weeks, recruiting customers by telling them the Biden administration is taking a softer enforcement approach." https://t.co/rznfkojLIu
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 4, 2021
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February 04, 2021 at 02:35AM
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"In the Rio Grande Valley… adults arriving with children are now being taken to the Border Patrol station in McAllen [&] then typically released into the U.S. … CBP officials do not administer coronavirus tests…and do not have the capacity to do so." https://t.co/r39kvjdxQw
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 4, 2021
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February 04, 2021 at 02:34AM
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Don't see how this strategy does Biden that much good if border is now swarmed due to reinstutition of catch & release — and public outcry jeopardizes the "big changes." …. https://t.co/WXnBYKorWx
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February 04, 2021 at 12:50AM
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It was also easier to defy the Cheney wing of the party on a secret ballot, no? https://t.co/ZgkSyc7UqZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 4, 2021
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February 04, 2021 at 12:37AM
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OVERREACTION ALERT: "She has consumed the political world …" https://t.co/zgy8lQDz0L
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 4, 2021
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February 04, 2021 at 12:22AM
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If @RealDonaldTrump were alive, he might have something to say about this … https://t.co/KAwHCwZcFY
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 4, 2021
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February 03, 2021 at 10:48PM
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The Republicans are such QAnon maniacs they … overwhelmingly voted to keep Cheney in her leadership position. https://t.co/lkJUtMIwKJ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 4, 2021
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February 03, 2021 at 10:31PM
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"Why Are So Many Health-Care Workers Resisting the Coronavirus Vaccine?"// And do you want to wade through a whole @NewYorker piece to find out the answer? https://t.co/D1cFKrYyPE via @NewYorker
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 4, 2021
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February 03, 2021 at 10:02PM
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