Can they remove Brooke Rollins from the GOP in a package deal? (She seems a total slick-talking Koch tool.) https://t.co/j14Q8YbyTj
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 16, 2021
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December 15, 2021 at 10:41PM
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I don’t think it’s dead either. My reference point is ’96 welfare reform –passed in summer of an election year. The difference is there was huge voter demand for wefare reform. Is there a big DEMAND for BBB? A main motive now seems to be to avoid humiliation. Guess that’s enough https://t.co/ykzDtzEMPW
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 16, 2021
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December 15, 2021 at 10:29PM
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But it’s the logical way to punt on BBB for a while while saving face, right? Don’t say, “we’re stuck.” Say ‘We’re going on to this other very important thing …” https://t.co/CAY0vKNVBk
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 15, 2021
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December 15, 2021 at 06:15PM
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Paying people in a way that keeps them out of the labor forces is INFLATIONARY! Inflationary, Joe! Restoring at least the “phase in” would apparently go a long way to addressing that danger. https://t.co/WdnIJjdxxM
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 15, 2021
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December 15, 2021 at 05:39PM
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Glad that’s done. Next!
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 15, 2021
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December 15, 2021 at 05:37PM
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Statesmanlike compromise: Extend it for 2 years but restore the de facto ‘work test’ and ‘phase’ in that were in effect under the pre-Biden Child Tax Credit (which still sent out a lot of checks). Manchin has previously advocated a work test. https://t.co/8mWOaGUCtA
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 15, 2021
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December 15, 2021 at 05:01PM
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Don’t forget CA Prop. 47 (making shoplifting and grand theft under $950 a misdemeanor) … https://t.co/x3wRjNRMlw
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 15, 2021
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December 15, 2021 at 04:48PM
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I’m afraid “the bulshit,” in the form of Mr. Gascon, has now travelled south to LA. https://t.co/KaeYZu5zWc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 15, 2021
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December 15, 2021 at 04:39PM
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To allow more criminals here illegally to avoid being removed … https://t.co/TAsfbhrptc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 15, 2021
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December 15, 2021 at 01:43PM
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I mean, has anybody else pulled this off? I think it is a club with two members …
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 15, 2021
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December 15, 2021 at 02:15AM
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Seems clear Gellman et al need some plausible constitutional theory (*not* an amendment) that would let SCOTUS cabin the discretion of state legislators over elector choice. Hope the Court buys it (possible) and does a better job exercising its power than SCOTUS in Bush v Gore /5
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 15, 2021
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December 15, 2021 at 12:25AM
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will leave millions (minus a few hundred) angrier. What’s left is Gellman’s vague (and alarming in itself) call for Biden to “fully [marshal] his power and resources to face a challenge.” Which would involve what? 4/
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 15, 2021
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December 15, 2021 at 12:20AM
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pressuring state officials when Trump arguably believed there was massive fraud? Sounds like a multi-year, divisive waste of nation’s time that’ll strengthen Trump. And if there are tens of millions of Trumpers who endorse violence, charging a few hundred with “insurrection”3/
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 15, 2021
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December 15, 2021 at 12:15AM
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b) Gellman also argues for “holding Trump and his minions accountable, legally, for plotting a coup.” But he doesn’t provide evidence that Trump was behind the 1/6 violence. (Maybe 1/6 Commission will come up with it, but they haven’t yet.) He’s going to charge Trump for 2/
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 15, 2021
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December 15, 2021 at 12:09AM
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My biggest problem with @bartongellman Coming-Election-Coup piece is that after chastising Biden for not pushing a commensurate solution, he himself doesn’t come close to proposing one. He suggests a) various voting rights laws he himself pooh-poohs 1/x https://t.co/SDiobItWHw
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 15, 2021
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December 15, 2021 at 12:05AM
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People will behave like human beings & patriots. Don’t quite know why they’re now being dragged for it. https://t.co/SXJWhUjwaL
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 15, 2021
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December 14, 2021 at 11:13PM
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Well, ditto Ingraham. I remember in N.H in ’08 when it was clear Obama was potential Pres. & was virtually unprotected at rallies. Half the people in audience, Dems & GOPs-especially media-contacted whoever they knew in admin to get some protection STAT. https://t.co/1gIHjdApxY
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 15, 2021
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December 14, 2021 at 11:12PM
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“If the expanded child tax credit expires and BBB passes early next year, its payments can be made retroactively.”–Sargent’s actual piece. https://t.co/iN4tDJ8zm6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 15, 2021
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December 14, 2021 at 08:52PM
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Face it: If 9.6% inflation (wholesale) doesn’t prompt Manchin to say ‘I won’t vote for BBB this winter,’ nothing will. Almost certainly, Manchin intends to ultimately vote for *some* BBB bill. Idea that he’ll kill it seems wishful. https://t.co/aZ3RHNqVMa
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 15, 2021
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December 14, 2021 at 08:42PM
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I do think the line to run against her in the primaries might be a long one. A huge opportunity that only Sanders was smart enough to take last time. Ambitious Dem pols unlikely to pass it up. Many Dem voters will be looking–somewhat desperately–for an alternative …
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 15, 2021
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December 14, 2021 at 07:54PM
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The Nixon Comeback analogy is almost on “all fours,” at they say in law school. Seemingly defeated passed-over figure whom everyone thinks America hatess, slowly laying groundwork among party regulars… https://t.co/R7hcPsfaa7
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 15, 2021
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December 14, 2021 at 07:49PM
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For one thing, *somebody* in that family needs to run for something in order to revive donations to the Clinton Foundation. Who’s going to give to a dynasty that will never again have power? Ghislaine Maxwell? https://t.co/rZyXI9jAwh
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 15, 2021
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December 14, 2021 at 07:43PM
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One of those “OMG he’s right” pieces — OMG *of course* Hillary is plotting to run in 2024. https://t.co/Ui3aFxPrfC
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 15, 2021
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December 14, 2021 at 07:40PM
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Big @richardrushfield news. Ankler empire now unstoppable. P.S.: Janice Min isn’t just “a media exective,” Shes one of the few editors (Adam Moss is another) who successfully revived a print publication. https://t.co/Jc2PgeFbF2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 15, 2021
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December 14, 2021 at 07:31PM
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“[Iif you were a Trump supporter hoping to display your support for the president, well, today’s antics at the Capitol did just the opposite.” Ingraham broadcast statememt on 1/6 seems wildly un-hypocritical. https://t.co/SbBXEki2Py
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 14, 2021
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December 14, 2021 at 11:11AM
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