Larry Summers "had already criticised Joe Biden’s fiscal stimulus as overly excessive earlier this year …"
The excessive we do immediately. The overly excessive takes a little longer. https://t.co/qzinXG6UhR
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 18, 2021
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May 18, 2021 at 05:59PM
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Good for Dickerson https://t.co/C768rAGcU5
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May 18, 2021 at 03:30PM
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Where is Slack when you need it? https://t.co/8jwdkjXFZH
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May 18, 2021 at 03:27PM
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I've done it. I've written a tweet that's gotten 0 "impressions." Goose eggs. Harder than you'd think.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 18, 2021
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May 18, 2021 at 03:16PM
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— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 18, 2021
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May 18, 2021 at 03:11PM
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"Pounce" was more fun. Bring back pounce https://t.co/Qt1JxvH82V
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 18, 2021
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May 18, 2021 at 02:56AM
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Why wouldn't both sides try to pass national legislation in Congress? https://t.co/QqF0YROrsz
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 18, 2021
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May 18, 2021 at 02:27AM
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Hot Matt Bruenig v. Josh Marshall action … https://t.co/2RbyNxjrsj
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 18, 2021
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May 18, 2021 at 12:38AM
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"Child tax credit" booster @mattbruenig is unhappy with the IRS's plans for the cash payments. "[T]he anti-poverty estimates touted for this program are vastly overstated. We’ll be lucky if the real poverty-reduction number is even half of [projections]" .https://t.co/HyeI3IlmGE
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 18, 2021
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May 18, 2021 at 12:36AM
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Awaiting Yglesias' next Substack post:
"PEOPLE SHOULD EAT FOOD" https://t.co/gSY9iGBVCE— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 18, 2021
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May 17, 2021 at 11:45PM
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Biden’s HUD to let illegal immigrants use taxpayer funds for public housing – https://t.co/HwBGYriBJK
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 17, 2021
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May 17, 2021 at 03:14PM
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By definition it would be mainstream publications that brought the lab leak hypothesis into the mainstream, no? https://t.co/NMy7wHRsEe
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 17, 2021
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May 17, 2021 at 03:07PM
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Biden still talks like Bill Clinton even as he throws Clinton's 1996 welfare reform into the dumpster … https://t.co/PRsAr1mlaz
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 17, 2021
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May 17, 2021 at 02:52PM
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“Hard-pressed working families…Tax relief to hard working families…For working families with children, this tax cut…."
Biden doesn't dare say what his program actually does: Send $$ checks to NON-working families whether or not they pay taxes. …https://t.co/WPvSX2UqNl
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 17, 2021
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May 17, 2021 at 02:48PM
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Attn: @JuliusKrein: China's meritocrats aren't happy either https://t.co/KAq7jASBjJ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 17, 2021
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May 17, 2021 at 02:48AM
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How long do we think Biden is going to let the border debacle help jam up his legislative agenda? I say not long. He's said to be very aware that he has only a brief window until he might lose the House.
Is there a market where I can short @AliMayorkas? https://t.co/JiRV1TWreo
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 17, 2021
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May 17, 2021 at 12:49AM
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He sounds like such a good time! Are we sure it was his "tightly choreographed schedule" that prevented him from meeting "normal" people?
(On the other hand, he liked @Slate and saved it from Microsoft bean counters when Microsoft owned it.) https://t.co/7eWHaWBvG8
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 17, 2021
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May 16, 2021 at 10:38PM
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“He likes nothing better than to get together and debate or lecture people, or tell everyone what he’s doing with the polio vaccine. He has an ability, unlike any other person I’ve ever met, to lecture to a table of people without stopping for an hour" https://t.co/4AU1ghQ7p8
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 17, 2021
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May 16, 2021 at 10:35PM
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"What about families which choose to have a fourth child? The mother is exempt from income tax for the rest of her life."
Now *there's* a pro-natalist incentive that doesn't risk creating a class of no-income, no-worker households (unlike Biden's cash). https://t.co/8vgrguk4Q5
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 17, 2021
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May 16, 2021 at 10:20PM
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.@NPR 's idea of headline news: New Gaza attacks bring Middle East to the brink .. but hey, did you know Liz Cheney was removed as #3 in the GOP House minority (four days ago)? Here's a sound clip from Liz Cheney!…
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 17, 2021
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May 16, 2021 at 10:12PM
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Today: Melinda's turn at bat https://t.co/buItJfa76W
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May 16, 2021 at 08:53PM
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“Microsoft received a concern in the latter half of 2019 that Bill Gates sought to initiate an intimate relationship with a company employee in the year 2000." Seems oddly worded–or an odd timeline https://t.co/XgLMUk3DRv
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 17, 2021
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May 16, 2021 at 08:10PM
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Unlike Biden, he figured out a way to stop the border surge. Actually took a lot of energy. Just sayin'
(He tried A, he tried B, he tried C, finally issued a crazy tariff threat against Mexico, which worked.) https://t.co/VmVkF0LF7u
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 16, 2021
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May 16, 2021 at 05:59PM
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If only he'd purged Ryan when he had a shot at it. His presidency might have gone very differently … https://t.co/cYIyA0Wk1P
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 16, 2021
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May 16, 2021 at 05:42PM
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"By then, a few reporters who had written about the dossier had backed away from it. 'Some people have wanted to maintain that the dossier is checking out when, as far as I can tell, it hasn’t,' said Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News. He was in the minority" https://t.co/4JvZhChVUb
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 16, 2021
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May 16, 2021 at 05:28PM
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