$1.4 billion doesn't seem like very much money. (Total US income is about 13,000 billion dollars.) https://t.co/WuoI3FtZBy
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 3, 2019
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Just to be clear, not saying Lowry talked about new amnesties. But he did seem resigned to a dreary 2-6 years of Kushner White House. And that *will* entail various Koch-fueled runs at looser borders, imperiling what modest wage gains the bottom 10% may have won.
Plus mo' MBS! https://t.co/KJsMcSawaL— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 3, 2019
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This is not my experience. I've learned a lot from people who annoyed me once, or even twice. And I've written lots of tweets that annoyed people–either unintentionally or in ways I soon regretted. Do not want to encourage this rule … https://t.co/nUs5mnSfPa
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 2, 2019
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** $150,000 https://t.co/ao9H6HtXMk
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 2, 2019
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Dems will introduce new, bigger DREAM amnesty bill on March 12 https://t.co/fVbwjRKTo5 Would amnesty more than 3M, according to @NumbersUSA–way bigger than "DACA"(Obama's "deferred action for childhood arrivals"), which gave protection & work permits to 800K.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 2, 2019
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Here's a @NRO piece on Kushner teaming up with "the Koch Network" to "Come Up with a Big Immigration Reform Deal?" Who's going to stop him now that Jared's "ousted" competing aides? https://t.co/U59DAxCDqp https://t.co/Rxu9pwhxNW
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 2, 2019
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To review some of Kushner's "reasonable" advice to Trump: 1) Fire Comey! Dems'll love it 2) Back Luther Strange! 3) Hire Scaramucci (for professionalism!) 4) Hinge our Mideast plans on buddying up with MBS 5) Cook up amnesty-for-fence bill (it'll get 75 votes! [crushed, 50-47]) https://t.co/KJsMcSawaL
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 2, 2019
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This is from @KCRW's "Left, Right & Center," at 18:40 here: https://t.co/TsYr95vZEZ a) It's an exciting 2 years Lowry sees ahead, with Jared cooking up amnesties & Koch-y guestworker plans b) Lowry laments "some of the other reasonable voices have been ousted." Who ousted them? https://t.co/PI4PhOOcGy
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 2, 2019
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.@RichLowry learns to accept the Inevitability of Jared. "I used to think that Jared & Ivanka shouldn't be there. Now I think that there's just a very limited universe of reasonable people who…could possibly have [Trump's] complete trust" & "Kushner is one of them." Depressing!
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 2, 2019
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Jared *still* doesn't like it. Sorry! https://t.co/qqVqCG0nBJ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 2, 2019
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Think of all the great things the spouses of politicians and WH aides could do if they didn't pursue their passion for … lobbying. There are other careers. https://t.co/xKQjBWhSiR
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 1, 2019
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Correct. It's The Swamp. It stinks. But IIRC Daschle didn't get control of a major Dem organization and twist it to throttle down the legitimate sentiments of the base (while taking money from interests who benefit from the throttling). https://t.co/y75wXvav7H
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 1, 2019
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** White House https://t.co/HOGJHsiCmb
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 1, 2019
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Happy to go there. I'm sure it's legal—maybe even constitutionally protected. Doesn't mean it's right. What are you buying when you buy Matt Schlapp's lobbying services, given his wife's WH position? And his CPAC chairmanship? What do his clients *think* they're buying? https://t.co/qNUWJXt6Gc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 1, 2019
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Jared tarnished? Maybe not such a problem. He lives with it. Ivanka tarnished? Problem. She seems to require celebrity-level burnishing. https://t.co/s1NZcuA1p9
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 1, 2019
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I don't think Matt Schlapp should be taking lobbying $$ when his wife works in the Whie House. And he shouldn't be a lobbyist while running CPAC. But that's just me. That he's lobbying to bust the wages of unskilled US workers by importing cheaper ones just makes it worse. https://t.co/KsN5f7yWAR
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 1, 2019
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REUPPING: Re Matt Schlapp and CPAC https://t.co/Y8nOm1n5Xl
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 1, 2019
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Actually that whole piece was a big comes-at-a-time graf -a journalistic device that tries to give some vague deep meaning to an event by connecting to another recent event of the journalist's choosing. Here two big events happened simultaneously. Not clear any connection at all.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 1, 2019
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PORTENTOUS COMES-AT-A-TIME GRAF OF THE WEEK: "Cohen’s explosive testimony … portrayed [Trump} as an unreliable and dishonest man at the very moment he is conducting diplomacy with the world’s most erratic and untrusting dictator" https://t.co/dCVHYaP4aV Kim influenced by Cohen?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 1, 2019
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a) Says here that @MSchlapp's lobbying outfit, Cove Strategies. represents the Seasonal Employment Alliance, which wants relief from caps on the H-2B (unskilled) guest worker program https://t.co/o4h6OA83ex b) Schlapp chairs the ACU which runs CPAC. Does a) influence b)?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 1, 2019
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Confused. How does ‘There’s no business in Russia" translate into "lie to Congress about the date negotiations stopped" (as opposed to, say, denying it to the public when not under oath)? https://t.co/b1KPX90ELq
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 28, 2019
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Extra Credit Question: Is @JaredKushner the Ira Magaziner of the Trump Administration–guy who puts together big, seemingly unpopular, deals that are supposed to come together at the last minute, but instead collapse? https://t.co/mVta9A5ylh
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 28, 2019
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GDP growth seems way overrated as measure of success. Healthy (tight) labor market has beneficial social effects whether growth is 1% or 3%. @oren_cass makes the argument here: https://t.co/8FbJYBPxCg https://t.co/fmC1c0l4HA
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 28, 2019
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Is it what @MSchlapp's clients want? https://t.co/nhrwkiN0nI
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 28, 2019
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Key word: newsletters. The economics of newsletters seem to work, at least until everyone has one.
PS Marco Rubio is the real winner here https://t.co/OPoo0Dm37U
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 28, 2019
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