Eager to get to infrastructure skeptic @mattyglesias' left. Here's a shot: If there's "induced demand" after highway spending (more cars use it/developers build homes/traffic jams ensue) why not also for mass transit spending? Even if it requires rezoning https://t.co/8WnVlDKSLj
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 8, 2021
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April 08, 2021 at 06:08PM
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The time (2011) Stacey Abrams "cut the days for early voting from 45 all the way down to 21." https://t.co/GCVUlmIGZs
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 8, 2021
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April 08, 2021 at 05:24PM
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New fundraising email from @mattgaetz: "They are coming for me"…"Can I count on your support?"
"Monthly reccurring donation" box pre-checked …
Also prechecked is a box to "donate an additional" unspecified amount "automatically on 4/30"…
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April 08, 2021 at 05:16PM
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Progress! But it's unclear if he wants to finish the wall or first use it as a "a political bargaining chip to be traded for a path to citizenship in a comprehensive immigration-reform bill." If they go ahead and finish it it's no longer a bargaining chip, right? https://t.co/97y8Hs3run
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April 08, 2021 at 02:15PM
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"The values did not reach the bottom of the society." Don't quite understand where this piece's concluding optimism that the US has "leverage" to protect a "democratic sphere" in peace talks with Taliban comes from .. https://t.co/m40erXVSGx
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 8, 2021
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April 08, 2021 at 02:03PM
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YMMV, but nothing obvious in here that seems to stop Schumer–or McConnell, down the road –from using multiple reconciliations for all non-Byrdable (ie budget-related) matters … https://t.co/Zl7fWU7Rwl
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April 08, 2021 at 12:41PM
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"It's Matt Gaetz, and I'm the next target of the liberal lies b/c I'm an American First conservative working to drain the swamp….[T]he Left wants to drag my name through the mud….I won't back down…but I need your help."–text I got yesterday
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April 08, 2021 at 08:28AM
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Why I have no sympathy for @mattgaetz https://t.co/2RRRS2AQaD
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April 08, 2021 at 01:58AM
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Chauvin trial doesn’t seem to be going well for prosecution … https://t.co/pc7ay4iYlO
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 7, 2021
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April 07, 2021 at 06:39PM
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Don't tell QAnon about the muons
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April 07, 2021 at 01:30PM
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Just as everything's infratructure, everything seems eligible for "reconciliation" if you want it badly enough …. https://t.co/QeoibNfeJO
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 7, 2021
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April 07, 2021 at 01:03PM
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The real infrastructure is the friends we made along the way.
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April 07, 2021 at 12:15PM
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Progress. Don't knock it. https://t.co/hYYYtsuZob
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April 07, 2021 at 01:01AM
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Seems kind of tautological … https://t.co/l3jlewLtzZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 7, 2021
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April 07, 2021 at 12:48AM
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The argument would be that tax/spend decisions are typically reversible, but non-Byrd decisions (immigration, environnment, war) often aren't–while with others (e.g sexual morality) you'd want a broad consensus for federal action. Still why put gun control in 60-vote bucket? 2/
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April 07, 2021 at 12:40AM
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If the end result is that we have a parliamentary system for all laws that can satisfy the Byrd rule (eg about taxes and spending) and near-gridlock for all cultural and other non-fiscal issues…that *seems* untenable, but might make crude sense. 1/ https://t.co/vHWPep9g0v
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April 07, 2021 at 12:28AM
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So how often can the majority use reconciliation? Press accounts maddeningly imprecise on what seems to be a crucial point. "[U]se the tool as often as they want" says Politico https://t.co/FYucSXWwZ8 The Hill seems more circumspect: https://t.co/XsXbDeorxd
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April 06, 2021 at 10:30PM
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Can we drink Mexican Coke? Someone get a ruling from the parliamentarian.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 7, 2021
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April 06, 2021 at 09:37PM
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Did Hunter Biden Incriminate Himself In A Federal Crime? https://t.co/ACeiiwpZTC
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 6, 2021
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April 06, 2021 at 02:31PM
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"Privately, senior GOP officials are telling us the ruling doesn’t say exactly what Democrats are saying it does."
Need to see the ruling … https://t.co/LMSJ90CObD
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 6, 2021
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April 06, 2021 at 01:40PM
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She only does 'root causes.' https://t.co/JX7wKF78QW
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April 06, 2021 at 12:03AM
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"The ruling further means that the fiscal 2021 budget could be revised a third time to set up a third reconciliation' spending package, also subject to a simple majority vote."
Really, three reconciliations? If so, why not four? Five? https://t.co/B2fRuCTsxP
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 6, 2021
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April 05, 2021 at 11:46PM
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"During former President Trump’s first year in office, Republicans used a budget resolution [ie. reconciliation] in fiscal 2017 to advance legislation that would have repealed parts of the Affordable Care Act."
So pathetic, in retrospect. Thanks, P. Ryan https://t.co/DsIQbkrve7— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 6, 2021
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April 05, 2021 at 10:50PM
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Not many bigshots on the Left (who aren't woolly '60s vets) are willing to speak up strongly against a "clampdown" on uncurated free speech. Here's one of them: https://t.co/Ie5FfEpbQe
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 6, 2021
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April 05, 2021 at 10:39PM
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This is all because Jared squandered Trump's huge initial cash haul? https://t.co/AGMtUIlwFZ https://t.co/PcDFOxKBuJ
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April 05, 2021 at 07:26PM
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