Which way is the ski rental? https://t.co/WiJ6pcDkr0
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 16, 2019
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Up 5 points from August. Meanwhile the % who think government is doing too *much* is down 6, to 28%. Theory:
When people talk about immigration, the "control" side gains–and shutdown is keeping them talking about immigration. At some point Chuck/Nancy may have enough. https://t.co/k2s8dmC9cS— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 16, 2019
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If only there were some policy that could keep labor markets tight even if the economy cools a bit…. I mean, we have to let all our people –citizens, legal residents — get jobs. But what about … [just trying to think this through here ]… https://t.co/EtuEoi3V4C
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 16, 2019
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Again, Trump is delivering on his most basic promise: "[A]fter 35 years of essentially flat wages — are finally clawing back real added income, Last year, wages grew by 3.2%, the biggest increase since 2009 and a full 1.2% higher than inflation," https://t.co/dSy5p3GCRJ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 16, 2019
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They could bring back only those federal employees who spark joy.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 16, 2019
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Specifically grounds his New Constituion in globalism ("military presence in over 170 countries … trading relationships")? https://t.co/JtX8xMr1t2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 16, 2019
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More nostalgia for the Days of the Gang of 8, when bipartisan statesmen convened to con the public into a giant amnesty & immigration increase with fake promises of enforcement. Swamp at its finest https://t.co/8BBO4SJfKu https://t.co/eoPB5Z4m9w
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 16, 2019
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‘Safe’ Border City Awash in Rio Grande Crime Wave https://t.co/pylOkCtZnj "[T]he actual crime rate is higher than official statistics let on….[C]rimes – even violent ones – are not always reported."
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 15, 2019
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That will require retraining the manatees https://t.co/KkPngqHa4x
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 15, 2019
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"The Postman Always Rings Twice" https://t.co/jlmQj97x5E
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 15, 2019
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The so-crazy-it-can't-possibly-work-but-it's-deliciously-subversive possibility would be if the savings (in salary, or heating bills, or whatever) from furloughing all these workers and de facto shrinking government could somehow be used to … fund the Wall. https://t.co/XTPwtuebxP
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 15, 2019
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Doesn't it seem like if you really wanted to woo away moderate House Dems you wouldn't invite them to a WH meeting where they have to openly defy Pelosi even to attend? You'd have discreet meetings with them out of the spotlight–eg on the Hill. https://t.co/m5q6vuJaZ4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 15, 2019
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Not saying I endorse this approach. But having worked in federal government** (briefly) I don't think it's crazy.
** — I was, in retrospect, an extremely non-essential employee. https://t.co/WGbL9UaNJo
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 15, 2019
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"We do not want most employees to return, because we are working better without them." This is an old Charles Peters/@washmonthly point, known as the "Czech Embassy" story–when that embassy was forced to operate on a crew of 1/3 of its staff, and worked better than with 3/3. https://t.co/JaoykO01Vf
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 15, 2019
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Could shutdown be an end in itself? If you keep reinstating high-priority people, and leave the rest furloughed, have you achieved something conservatives have NEVER been able to achieve–cutting the size of government by eliminating the fat. Zero-based budgeting! https://t.co/QjTQInE6xy
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 15, 2019
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Wish I had some faith that the WH's legislative people–eg Shahira Knight–actually believed in the cause Trump's trying to serve (immigration control). Why don't they hire someone like @EagleEdMartin? https://t.co/rhJkBAzbB4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 15, 2019
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Sure seems like @CNN and @MSNBC have shifted to Russia, Russia, Russia … Was it because an ongoing national seminar on border security — which inevitably showed that real walls work and "technological" walls don't — wasn't serving these networks' anti-Trump constituency? https://t.co/Bnpd6In4mX
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 15, 2019
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Reopening selected departments to relieve acute problems (eg DOT?) could be part of a Rope-a-Dope strategy — allowing Trump to keep *enough* of the government shut down to keep the national conversation on the border wall (a conversation I think he wins) https://t.co/xJUYDyEOqy
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 15, 2019
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Stay paranoid … https://t.co/e6e61TtPLY
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 14, 2019
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VW Passats built in Chattanooga have a good reliability rating in Consumer Reports — a pleasant surprise. (Why a surprise? Not because they're made in USA but because they're Volkswagens. ) https://t.co/IymQT5XcQG
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 14, 2019
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Any story that uses the phrase "completely blocked by vehicle and pedestrian fencing" should thrown in trash immediately. This is "vehicle fencing." https://t.co/g8bqeuSi1F https://t.co/0ievSg4lhq
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 14, 2019
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This is a Cadillac? https://t.co/FDQC7fJBto
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 14, 2019
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Are Trump voters "racists and xenophobes"? Tonelson says a recent Grinnell College poll "exposed those allegations as hokum." https://t.co/Mr8Ja677Fa
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 14, 2019
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SEEMS ABOUT RIGHT: Excess immigration of labor "forces down wages and lowers the material and moral position of the English working class. It is the secret by which the capitalist class maintains its power.” +1 to this Marx fellow https://t.co/WlDYUGoCuR
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 14, 2019
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My interpretation: Graham is in it for the amnesty (DACA or bigger) not the Wall. When prospect for an amnesty deal fades, so does his fortitude. https://t.co/UdPLMLf2Na
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 14, 2019
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