On the left: Paid leave program in the ‘reconciliation’ bill looks like a bureaucratic nightmare. https://t.co/PCqDzuggqY
But full speed ahead!
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Sep 9, 2021
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September 09, 2021 at 11:19AM
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Not clear to me Schumer and Pelosi really want the amnesty to stay in ‘reconciliation’–could provoke a lot of opposition and drag down the whole bill, no? https://t.co/XRfFJbLQlM
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Sep 9, 2021
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September 08, 2021 at 11:26PM
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“Temporary Protected Status”-Another way aliens never leave https://t.co/SLL8QTewBh
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 9, 2021
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September 08, 2021 at 11:01PM
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40% Afghanistan; 25% COVID; 15% Crime; 15% Border; 5% PC https://t.co/bLOneHt5vi
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Sep 9, 2021
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September 08, 2021 at 10:53PM
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Seems like in Benghazi in 2012 they picked up the theme and commemorated it when out media wasn’t making much of the anniversary. https://t.co/LyyYDyREKl
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 9, 2021
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September 08, 2021 at 10:42PM
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Big deal https://t.co/lxKH8NCBpl
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Sep 9, 2021
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September 08, 2021 at 10:21PM
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If he’d also work-test it we’d be getting somewhere … https://t.co/zfeYegqaIh
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 8, 2021
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September 08, 2021 at 07:57AM
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“He’s also talking about means testing on other key proposals, including [the] Child Tax Credit”
But that’ll screw up the Left/Niskanen plan to reestablish welfare for non-workers but disguise it by sending the welfare checks to practically everyone…
https://t.co/NfhS4USkci
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 8, 2021
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September 07, 2021 at 10:54PM
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Whose base is Biden rallying? https://t.co/1YZskUFyFB
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 7, 2021
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September 07, 2021 at 01:34PM
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“Prisoner of Zandi”– Here’s Andrew Ferguson’s excellent 2011 piece on the ubiquitous Zandi: https://t.co/O9ihNzBmGs https://t.co/HGZigpqFHS
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 7, 2021
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September 07, 2021 at 01:21PM
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Mistakes can be made. Remember when Pres. Obama campaigned for NJ Gov. Corzine in 2009… https://t.co/8TpM4N3Jgb https://t.co/VKLg37fm0M
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 7, 2021
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September 07, 2021 at 01:16PM
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“This is an inflation-fighting bill.” Really? There’s a difference between lowering costs and subsidizing costs. The bill often does the latter. Sbusidies can actually promote inflation, the way subsidized loans allow colleges to raise tuition, no? https://t.co/JPNiv6x49L
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 7, 2021
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September 07, 2021 at 11:25AM
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STILL PRISONER OF ZANDI: Dems’ $3.5 trillion wish list won’t cause inflation because it’s “paid for.” https://t.co/LgKcVNub1k Except it won’t be paid for. That’s been obvious all along https://t.co/LgKcVNub1k
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 7, 2021
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September 07, 2021 at 11:20AM
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CORRECTION: Make that $3.5 T … PS For $3.5 T I want universal, non-stratified health care. Not this grab-bag of public sector bloat. https://t.co/Ymdkg73rjy
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 7, 2021
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September 06, 2021 at 10:30PM
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Seems a huge mistake for House D mods to avoid substantive arguments and rely on Manchin & Sinema to make them. Weak reeds! Don’t mods have enough to sink the bill themselves? That’s leverage, no? Why not use it? https://t.co/oPltP9C26h
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 7, 2021
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September 06, 2021 at 09:58PM
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It seems more like a general bloat of existing programs, plus a re-creation of welfare, plus a big amnesty, plus a huge shift into home elder care (vs. institutional). … (Not saying there aren’t many good parts along with the bad) https://t.co/Ymdkg73rjy
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 7, 2021
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September 06, 2021 at 09:54PM
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WHADDYA WANT FOR $2.3 T?: Biden’s ‘New Deal’ “is not as much of a sea change as the creation of Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960s, or Social Security in the 1930s. Even the Affordable Care Act of 2010 created an entirely new government infrastructure.” https://t.co/MG7v6MliuT
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 7, 2021
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September 06, 2021 at 09:49PM
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First hed, real hed https://t.co/TlrQDfOGSN
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 6, 2021
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September 06, 2021 at 01:43PM
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Even if you support the terrible idea of “full refundability,” I don’t understand how the current reconciliation bill can prevent a future Congress from repealing it. How do you “make permanent” and “lock in” a law, blocking future democratic action (apart from the Constitution)? https://t.co/fS923osLuU
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 6, 2021
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September 06, 2021 at 01:24AM
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“No full refundability” would be a good slogan for those who want to expand the child tax credit without re-creating a welfare system and subsidizing a culture of non-work https://t.co/HKwun6LkWj
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 6, 2021
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September 06, 2021 at 01:17AM
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Parrott (foe of Clinton’s welfare reform who tried to undo it at least partially while in Obama’s HHS) wants “full refundability” to re-create welfare (cash for nonworking parents) directly.
It’s the key provision that should NOT be made permanent (or included in the first place) https://t.co/zFryRKaL23— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 6, 2021
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September 06, 2021 at 01:12AM
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OK … https://t.co/kFbLlCR6TH
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 6, 2021
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September 06, 2021 at 01:05AM
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Dem “lawmakers have acknowledged they may need to pare their ambitions or borrow more.”
Suspect they’ll take the “or borrow more” option.
That’s why paring back the tax hikes to starve the reconciliation beast seems unlikely to work.
https://t.co/jWeWzZQYBB— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 6, 2021
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September 06, 2021 at 12:39AM
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Classic case where Biden’s staff may not be able to bring the problem (Biden overusing Beau as a crutch) up with the boss, for understandable reasons But the @NYTimes can. https://t.co/bly6nh4FuM
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Sep 6, 2021
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September 06, 2021 at 12:18AM
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Saving this one https://t.co/lsELVkIPOp
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Sep 6, 2021
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