“So this was a great deal for the Democrats. They were building a bulwark against a possible Trump win. It’s a great thing that it died. The Republican negotiators, you know, um, I don’t know them very well but I am very embarrassed on their behalf.” https://t.co/LXlveKj2MG”
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 11, 2024
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February 11, 2024 at 02:44PM
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Stay Paranoid about the amendments …. https://t.co/7rssgUakTH
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 11, 2024
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February 11, 2024 at 02:35PM
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Yes. I thought the Biden pitch was “Inflation is over! I licked it! Soft landing!” not “Aren’t lingering higher prices really annoying?” https://t.co/1Et5sadnWz
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 11, 2024
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February 11, 2024 at 02:33PM
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I would think the smart Biden reaction to his open-wound border failure (if he wants to be reelected) would be to accept Mayorkas’ resignation, not to send him on Meet the Press. https://t.co/mmDsfB8s30
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 11, 2024
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February 11, 2024 at 02:27PM
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Yes. I thought the Biden pitch was “Inflation is over! I licked it! Soft landing!” not “Aren’t lingering higher prices really annoying!” https://t.co/1Et5sadnWz
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 11, 2024
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February 11, 2024 at 02:16PM
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Strong statement from @CaitlinPacific about many Dems’ Plan B: Newsom has the “gall to run to lead this country when he’s run this state into the ground.” https://t.co/5DTBgyB30t
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 11, 2024
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February 11, 2024 at 01:59PM
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Ukraine would have aid by now if Democrats had not voted with Gaetz https://t.co/xiZDSHgLXM
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 10, 2024
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February 10, 2024 at 03:53PM
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“Frankly, I don’t think there is a feasible alternative to suspending consideration of new asylum applications when the backlog gets too long.” https://t.co/7yOUcyNaFx
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 9, 2024
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February 09, 2024 at 01:42AM
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Hmm. In 2013, @paulkrugman worried (somewhat courageously) that immigrants lowered wages of the less-skilled US workers they competed with. ( “That’s just supply and demand …”) https://t.co/6w7AAo4sDR What happened? https://t.co/FRe8JsipBj
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 9, 2024
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February 09, 2024 at 01:37AM
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Biden could give it another shot, given that it wasn’t’ a full SCOTUS ruling and the lineup has changed. If 200 million people show up at the border, the President can’t say “You have the right to apply but there are practical limits so we can only do so many a day”? https://t.co/BcTI5jUHY0
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 9, 2024
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February 09, 2024 at 01:09AM
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Even if the only “emergency” recognized is inability to process immigrants, you could say ‘We only have ability to process 100 a day. Sorry!” Who is court to second guess? I mean, in theory we *could* allocate enough resources to process 100K a day. Will courts require that?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 9, 2024
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February 09, 2024 at 01:02AM
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Well they could give it a try with the new SCOTUS lineup! Don’t quite understand why what Trump did was struck down but the 4,000-5,000 “emergency” shutdown in Lankford deal wouldn’t be struck down. Still conflicts with statute saying have right to “apply” for asylum outside POE https://t.co/BcTI5jUHY0
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 9, 2024
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February 09, 2024 at 12:58AM
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Hmm. I’m not sure the staff tells him everything.–especially the bad news. He has a temper. I bet he still thinks he (or, rather, his speechwriters) wrote the lines they ripped off from RFK (or RFK’s speechwriters) decades ago. https://t.co/mycJjxfmKu
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 9, 2024
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February 08, 2024 at 11:18PM
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“I’ve even heard privately, Democratic colleagues, tell me ‘your leadership was desperate to make a deal, that it made us less willing to negotiate’.”–JD Vance. https://t.co/HaOn1ZeAMF via @dailycaller
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 9, 2024
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February 08, 2024 at 10:24PM
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Not sure “messages precision-targeted at crossover voters” will do the trick, unless “pivot to the center” (which @mattyglesias also recommends) is such a message. Stop sluicing in migrants. Fire Mayorkas. Don’t undermine welfare reform with “tax credits”. That’s precision! https://t.co/WVkhBaXxn0
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 8, 2024
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February 08, 2024 at 06:51PM
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Interesting. He has me at “remove the look-back” (2 years of checks for one year of work). Agnostic on other changes. https://t.co/20NSVDWVWP
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 8, 2024
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February 08, 2024 at 06:34PM
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Vincent “The Chin” Gigante was on to something. https://t.co/bQ8qSBqw1A https://t.co/lne59wiCsi
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 8, 2024
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February 08, 2024 at 03:47PM
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Is Hur part of the Replace Biden conspiracy? https://t.co/WJYNGJMQEi
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 8, 2024
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February 08, 2024 at 03:44PM
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KOHL! https://t.co/oduz3ec98m
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 8, 2024
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February 08, 2024 at 03:43PM
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And McDonald’s should feed your whole family when you buy a meal for yourself. Seems very weird form of corporatism (having businesses dole out benefits instead of government, because business and government are really the same blob). https://t.co/K4JoXobksC
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 8, 2024
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February 08, 2024 at 03:41PM
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Posted without comment: https://t.co/7mKs8myfNx
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 8, 2024
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February 08, 2024 at 03:27PM
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McConnell, on the other hand, seems to have known exactly where he was being taken https://t.co/Co6VHGOAw5 https://t.co/C4M8PGsrlu
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 8, 2024
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February 08, 2024 at 03:12PM
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Between this and only having to “indicate an intention to apply” for protection, would’ve have been a big lowering of the barrier to being let in and released, no?
@SenLankford was so taken for a ride. https://t.co/sU3x7UyZTq
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 8, 2024
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February 08, 2024 at 03:10PM
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Good grief–it was so not an “enforcement-only” bill. Also had extra green cards; work authorization; “documented Dreamers;” mandated 1,400/day asylum processing. Generally ratifies high level of migration. Amazed @AlecMacGillis falls for that. (See https://t.co/lolbGuOv4S) https://t.co/jga6mDInpS
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 8, 2024
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February 08, 2024 at 03:02PM
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Though this seems to be going in the opposite (wrong) direction https://t.co/3buS9QKy62 https://t.co/91OKVgk1wz
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 8, 2024
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February 08, 2024 at 02:50PM
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