Somewhere Jack Ryan is smiling … https://t.co/tWBGtWs6Ng

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 23, 2024

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January 22, 2024 at 11:58PM
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You have to wonder if willingness to be “Lurleened” is one of Trump’s criteria when it comes to VP … https://t.co/EnPCVBKldJ

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 23, 2024

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January 22, 2024 at 11:33PM
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Note: Does not say “the DeSantis campaign was doomed from the start” https://t.co/iNYbDg3kq0

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 22, 2024

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January 22, 2024 at 05:00PM
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Google Maps, as I’m leaving N.H.: “Use the right lane to stay left.” Exactly.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 22, 2024

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January 22, 2024 at 04:39PM
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That assume Trump (if elected) doesn’t figure out a way around the 22d Amendment–eg a Lurleen Wallace strategy, featuring Ivanka as Lurleen. https://t.co/Jea57OwU2o

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 22, 2024

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January 22, 2024 at 10:11AM
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Hollywood Boulevard hasn’t been “glamorous” for, what, 90 years? I believe there were stories about this in the 1930s. https://t.co/5ZgQpODa4b

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 22, 2024

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January 22, 2024 at 03:05AM
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“DeSantis, for a time, unified a bunch of people who supposedly hate each other but need Trump-flavored air and water to stay alive. So they joined forces to bury the guy who presented the biggest threat to that ecosystem.” https://t.co/092yzba84i

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 22, 2024

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January 22, 2024 at 02:09AM
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Where is Ivanka? https://t.co/SdX84T2mmL

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 22, 2024

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January 21, 2024 at 07:32PM
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I’m not so sure. Trump’s speech last night to a full house in Manchester was (I reluctantly realized) highly effective. He didn’t ramble and he kept all the defects (eg grievances) in check or hidden. No signs of dementia. https://t.co/tZLaeOoCMt

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 21, 2024

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January 21, 2024 at 06:57PM
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On why tinkering with amnesty language and “expedited removal” (which is not necessarily removal) won’t come close to solving the migrant problem, see this https://t.co/YXx0T13Sau https://t.co/1DlnRrtgy3

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 21, 2024

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January 21, 2024 at 06:26PM
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On why tinkering with amnesty language and “expedited removal” (which is not necessarily removal) won’t come close to solving the migrant problem, see this (from a generally pro-migrant reporter) https://t.co/YXx0T13Sau https://t.co/1DlnRrtgy3

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 21, 2024

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January 21, 2024 at 05:57PM
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This is one of the migration-encouraging Dem changes to be avoided. But what are the positive, migration-decreasing provisions in the deal? I’ve only heard about tinkering with amnesty language and “expedited removal,” neither of which will have big effect. What’s in it for GOP? https://t.co/XKSwtOTBZU

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 21, 2024

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January 21, 2024 at 05:55PM
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Haley, Pelosi … Ever seen them in the same room? https://t.co/6gAPZd8WbD

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 21, 2024

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January 21, 2024 at 02:02AM
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Is there evidence that phone calls are losing their power? 1) They take some effort, which scares Congresspeople (might use same energy against them); 2) Just overloading the switchboard creates a sense of crisis, no? But I defer to Rosemary Jenks on this and all questions … https://t.co/lAmhVdWzDO

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 21, 2024

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January 21, 2024 at 01:40AM
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Turns out the one part of Haley’s speech I thought was spontaneous (about the song “Welcome to the Jungle”) wasn’t. Repeated word for word today. Fooled again.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 21, 2024

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January 21, 2024 at 01:12AM
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Why do I think “fixing” the border for Biden means having a nice orderly system that lets everyone in the world who wants to come here in — authorized or not — then gives them work permits and child tax credits and that also amnesties all the illegals already here. See, fixed! https://t.co/5fU0phcAOH

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 21, 2024

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January 21, 2024 at 12:10AM
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Welfare reform was such a disaster that child poverty fell to record lows–for blacks, whites, everyone–by 2019. Having working parents helped. https://t.co/EYPMsWgzJw

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024

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January 20, 2024 at 06:43PM
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Is this GOP plot to regrow the underclass so @NewtGingrich can be Speaker again? Single moms who lose connection with the workforce are at center of that phenomenon. The Clinton/Gingrich ’96 welfare reform changed that-lots of single moms joined workforce. Why throw success away? https://t.co/a53XbCJ78L

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024

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January 20, 2024 at 06:33PM
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Good lord … https://t.co/zUEwJIClE7

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024

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January 20, 2024 at 06:23PM
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Yes, but you can skip working this year and work next year and get the same result (a tax credit check next year). If that’s a “work incentive” …. https://t.co/IcWVYOY4S1

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024

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January 20, 2024 at 01:28PM
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“The exact impact of the lookback provision on work incentives depends on a few factors,” which are unspecified and unweighed …

A ringing conclusion. https://t.co/lY15G3o1dF

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024

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January 20, 2024 at 01:25PM
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… would quit working under the proposed 2-years-of-benefits-for-one-year-of-work “child tax credit” plan. Starter ingredients for making a culture of non-work … https://t.co/C8dc3qg2LJ

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024

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January 20, 2024 at 01:22PM
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“Stop weaponizing my failures!” https://t.co/2QTj3qzvmz

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024

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January 20, 2024 at 12:59PM
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Oh, no! A bipartisan border deal is threatened by a “politically treacherous dynamic”! Remember that, in the mainstream press, “bipartisan” deals are always good. They are never fig leaves or make-believe or bandaids or sellouts. https://t.co/imU2uPWnID

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024

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January 20, 2024 at 12:58PM
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DeSantis did 5 points better in the Iowa results than in the final Voice-of-God Selzer poll, so Jeff Roe’s super-expensive turnout organization must have been worth *something.*

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 20, 2024

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January 20, 2024 at 10:03AM
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