During the stilted Capitol press events when every senator felt they had to go to the microphone and get in their 2 minutes on why X bill was great, Dole would keep making loud wisecracks from the back. It was like a free comedy show. (Similar to Sam Donaldson in that respect.) https://t.co/c2AXOiMU7s
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 5, 2021
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December 05, 2021 at 05:57PM
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Alternative description of BBB: “A very expensive pile of hype.” **
**–with some good things, like shoring up the Obamacare exchanges, thrown in. https://t.co/2baZRDlwdC
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 5, 2021
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December 05, 2021 at 08:54AM
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Oh I think lots of people thought in good faith that global free trade, for ex., would be good–higher GDP & China liberalization. Workers would move to the new jobs and retrain! Arguments for mass immigration were similar if weaker (higher GDP, dynamism, “complementarity”). https://t.co/8dbrlmQGt1
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 5, 2021
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December 05, 2021 at 02:50AM
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Maybe Zemmour’s speech isn’t a plug ‘n play template for nationalist populists (just sub in your cultural touchstones!) but very France-specific, or at least specific to smaller countries resentful of superpowers, or of EU …. https://t.co/FMGOKPUjcS
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 5, 2021
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December 04, 2021 at 09:53PM
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Dreher’s litany of American cultural heroes falls flat to me. Trying to figure out why. 1) Cliched–too iconic 2) Not endangered, not by a global uniculture or by US trends. They *are* the global culture (Spielberg); 3) Extremely bourgie. Not that there’s anything wrong…4) …. https://t.co/HCMyk1UNvM
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 5, 2021
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Good point but I think one reason Zemmour’s speech is so effective is that it avoids paranoia about elites intentionally “replacing” people, and instead condemns elites for dissembling about the replacement once it was happening (whatever the reasons it happened). https://t.co/t59LMeun7z
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 5, 2021
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December 04, 2021 at 09:18PM
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Andrew Cuomo loses power and all his capos get axed like the last scenes in Godfather I. https://t.co/D9z5N4vioC
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 5, 2021
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December 04, 2021 at 08:47PM
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“Figure 2 below shows the absence of any significant increase in in-hospitals deaths in relation to the dramatic rise in the case rate for the Gauteng Province …” https://t.co/LaqeIxEl2P
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 5, 2021
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December 04, 2021 at 08:44PM
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In which we discuss the 4 pt. BIDEN RESCUE PLAN:
1–Omicron not so deadly!
2–Border “swerve” back to Trump policies works
3– inflation abates
4–Roe reversal gives voters a reason to go Dem again
https://t.co/VmftXd6rD5
PS Not clear BBB passing or not makes a big net difference— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 5, 2021
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December 04, 2021 at 08:40PM
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If @SecBlinken is basing our anti-Putin argument on the democratic and international legitimacy of the 2014 Ukraine “Revolution of Dignity” — well, he could be on stronger ground https://t.co/8IvjnBT4iT https://t.co/5fjIzOwdSU
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 4, 2021
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December 04, 2021 at 06:25PM
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More excitement than a Beatles dress rehearsal https://t.co/ux4bCkzVK3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 4, 2021
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December 04, 2021 at 10:40AM
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New Parrot Room is up https://t.co/GLZxBZDKK0
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Dec 4, 2021
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December 04, 2021 at 12:06AM
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New bloggingheads with @robertwrighter: https://t.co/SLeZ1F0nyb
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Dec 4, 2021
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December 03, 2021 at 10:36PM
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He doesn’t exactly hide the “replacement theory” in his announcement … https://t.co/dw2EmfHYAy
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 4, 2021
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December 03, 2021 at 10:19PM
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Definitely best at 1.5X … https://t.co/0mTsfH07eP
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Dec 4, 2021
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This is quite something https://t.co/IB0eaqHzPo
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 3, 2021
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December 03, 2021 at 05:07PM
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HMM: “According to the source, among the people that Epstein would meet on his trips to the White House was George Mitchell, the former senator who at the time was Senate majority leader.” Doesn’t quite make sense (wouldn’t Mitchell hang out at Capitol?) https://t.co/DNuqbeczji
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 3, 2021
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December 03, 2021 at 01:33PM
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.@Benyt seems to think it wasn’t a legit issue if a) Hunter Biden was influence peddling, only if it could be shown that b) his father changed policy (so @WSJ was right to pooh pooh the laptop story). That seems wrong. (a)’s a legit if smaller story https://t.co/tk4XLGkfq1
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 2, 2021
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December 02, 2021 at 04:48AM
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Too easy https://t.co/0GmOeoxmIM
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 2, 2021
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December 01, 2021 at 07:23PM
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Example of CIS honesty: Not clear this report from Bensman does their cause that much good. Would be easier to stay on simple message: ‘Clueless Biden’s letting everyone in!’ But they dont think that’s the truth. Bensman very reliable in my experience. https://t.co/4G9N66X3m0 https://t.co/vxDOnfB7mZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 1, 2021
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December 01, 2021 at 05:19PM
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SECRET SWERVE: Did Biden WH get a tacit backroom OK from loose-borders activists? (He can’t do them much good if Dems are booted from office in part due to bad border numbers.) https://t.co/4G9N66X3m0
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 1, 2021
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December 01, 2021 at 05:14PM
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I sense a pattern:
PAID LEAVE: Crazy hybrid of private/state/federal plans https://t.co/tVh1hcDcaF
PRE-K: No universality, just some more incentives to states.
CHILD CARE: Dramatically raises costs but does not provide subsidies that compensateIn other words, transformational! https://t.co/oWpRHqAmxN
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 1, 2021
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December 01, 2021 at 05:09PM
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Saving for the auto-delete: BRUENIG: “If your programs require a bunch of state cost-sharing and therefore state revenue and therefore in most cases state taxes on incomes below $400k, is that a breach of the tax promise. Does anyone care? Or is it just for show?”
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 1, 2021
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December 01, 2021 at 04:55PM
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Does @LeaderMcConnell read @MattBruenig ? https://t.co/PSCfHoR7DE
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 1, 2021
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December 01, 2021 at 04:53PM
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.@CIS_org is the most effective (maybe only) think tank on the ‘control immigration’ side of the debate. They’re honest. They do a lot with a little. They’re facing a vast corporate-funded loose borders careerist migra-tocracy. https://t.co/k4RnVnfz2K
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Dec 1, 2021
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December 01, 2021 at 03:41PM
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