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Nobody will go after Trump? Christie happy to mow down everyone else.
Monthly Archives: August 2015
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Think you need a means-test that’s a *little* nastier than Christie suggests if you want to save enough $ …
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Walker economic answer doesn’t mention unions? Hello? ….
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Jeb!’s vision of the future — get a good education/do well in school or you are SOL — is not very appealing kausfiles.com/2015/08/06/409…
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Jeb!: Kids won’t be able to get a job in the 21st century unless do well in school? Because all the unskilled jobs are taken by …
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I find I am fascinated with the bald spot Scott Walker is hiding. Does that make me a bad person?
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So if Christie and Paul take each other out …
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So does Kasich want a Wall too?
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So is Jeb! going to criticize Trump’s Wall? Jeb wants drones! Aren’t drones enough?[No] So far it’s slam dunk for Trump, no?
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Jeb! nervous immigration answer definitely not hit out of park.
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I think Kasich’s “emergency room” argument has been pretty thoroughly discredited, no?
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Jeb! really is trapped in past, pushing creaky, deceptive amnesty plan that’s been rejected twice under 2 presidents natl.re/3gFNEg
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Jeb!’s immigration plan: “[A]s everyone figured out years ago, the ‘provisional work permit’ *is* the amnesty” natl.re/PR4KrZ
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Reince’s Folly … twitter.com/mmurraypolitic…
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Definition of Orszagism: “Health-care reform is deficit reduction” newyorker.com/magazine/2009/… via @RyanLizza
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Orszagism takes a hit: “No, Giving More People Health Insurance Doesn’t Save Money” nyti.ms/1KQEY0k via @UpshotNYT
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But I’m sure I read about it in Wonkblog … twitter.com/conncarroll/st…
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Launching the Beta Debate Zingers preemptively #useitorloseit twitter.com/murphymike/sta…
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Pre-debate mini-rant: The Larger Issue (behind Trump’s popularity) kausfiles.com/2015/08/06/409…
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The Larger Issue! Washington Post (finally) fingers immigration as the cause of Trump’s surge. But authors Jim Tankersley et. al. still manage to place the Trump phenomenon in a tradition of “less educated people” who think that “foreigners are to blame for [their] personal economic woes.” Perhaps these voters’ anger is self-serving, a belief that if they are falling behind they must be “being taken advantage of.” At best, they express a legitimate NIMBY-like interest that must, alas, be cast aside in the march of progress. … But there’s a difference between being a hand-loom weaver threatened by powered machines and being an uncredentialed, low-skilled worker when it looks like virtually all low-skilled work will be either shipped overseas or (if it must be done here) performed by hungrier, lower paid immigrants or guest workers. In that case, you aren’t saying immigrants are “taking our jobs” so much as that we’re heedlessly and unnecessarily creating a society where if you aren’t smart or schooled or beautiful (or lucky) or an upwardly-mobile newcomer you are a loser. [It’s odd, I agree, that Donald Trump would be the bearer of this grievance.] If you prefer a country where anyone who works every day earns enough to live a life of dignity, does that make you “less-educated” or more American? …
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That was my strategy too. twitter.com/AnnCoulter/sta…
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It’s like writing abt the 1968 Dem primary and ignoring Vietnam (while focusing on how many cty chairs Humphrey had) politico.com/magazine/story…
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.@politico uncomfortable w/ issues-leaves out motor of ’16: Voters rejecting elite consensus on immig, Comm Core, etc politico.com/magazine/story…
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Weird 2 read @politico-all about mechanics while actual issue (immigration) remains offstage exerting mysterious pull politico.com/magazine/story…
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Kausfiles.com is ready for the ad-blocker revolution! Not sure @DailyCaller is theoverspill.wordpress.com/2015/07/30/the…