Some pushback from back in West Va. against Manchin on immigration amnesty https://t.co/kEAErZzR8g Emphasizes effect on blue-collar wages–e.g. “an amnesty would devastate blue collar West Virginians in the construction industry”
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021
from Twitter https://twitter.com/kausmickey
July 15, 2021 at 03:40PM
via IFTTT
Oh no. @marcorubio has made Sam Hammond mad! https://t.co/JYeGlxbqzq (Hammond’s argument makes no sense to me. Why can’t Rubio oppose Biden’s neo-welfare “refundable” child checks for non-workers, and oppose big new federal day care subsidies on other grounds if they want?)
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021
from Twitter https://twitter.com/kausmickey
July 15, 2021 at 02:02PM
via IFTTT
PS: It’s hard to believe the Dems won’t pass *some* ‘reconciliation’ package toward the end of the year. The question will be what’s in it: immigration amnesty? The full “child check” dole? Massive day care, home health care expenses? Etc. https://t.co/PtOTul5cXX
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021
from Twitter https://twitter.com/kausmickey
July 15, 2021 at 01:50PM
via IFTTT
Yes, getting the giant Dem budget packages through the House (where a few moderate defections can kill them) might be harder than getting them through the Senate. https://t.co/5EvdKuV50J
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021
from Twitter https://twitter.com/kausmickey
July 15, 2021 at 01:47PM
via IFTTT
None of the scoops from the various Trump books, so far, have provided evidence for the Dems’ 1/6 narrative–that Trump conspired with the rioters to block the electoral count through violence. …Doesn’t mean evidence isn’t there. But you’d think if they had it, they’d flog it. https://t.co/WJ5fVJefsy
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021
from Twitter https://twitter.com/kausmickey
July 15, 2021 at 02:21AM
via IFTTT
.@TheAtlantic desperately needs @JamesWolcott or someone like him (but there aren’t many like him). https://t.co/0P8shno0v6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021
from Twitter https://twitter.com/kausmickey
July 15, 2021 at 01:58AM
via IFTTT
Also strategic ambiguity on whether they have nukes https://t.co/RlREzaJRhJ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021
from Twitter https://twitter.com/kausmickey
July 15, 2021 at 01:56AM
via IFTTT
My God they are scared of him https://t.co/QQM2IA9auq
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021
from Twitter https://twitter.com/kausmickey
July 14, 2021 at 10:26PM
via IFTTT
SCOOP: Sec. 42 (health exclusions) to end on July 18. New border surge expected. https://t.co/1z5Gv2cktX
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021
from Twitter https://twitter.com/kausmickey
July 14, 2021 at 09:40PM
via IFTTT
Could they have come up with a creepier name? https://t.co/MJYEpPyQal
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021
from Twitter https://twitter.com/kausmickey
July 14, 2021 at 09:04PM
via IFTTT
Why is Prince Harry telling Americans what they can say? https://t.co/MJYEpPyQal
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021
from Twitter https://twitter.com/kausmickey
July 14, 2021 at 08:56PM
via IFTTT
Lord save us from the Niskanen Center … https://t.co/u50uPgTtce
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021
from Twitter https://twitter.com/kausmickey
July 14, 2021 at 08:46PM
via IFTTT
So lowering the Medicare eligibility age to 60 or 55 — one of Bernie’s good ideas — didn’t make it into the Big Bill… https://t.co/qF94W0TQVB You get Obamacare and child checks and you’ll like it, dammit.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021
from Twitter https://twitter.com/kausmickey
July 14, 2021 at 08:42PM
via IFTTT
SKEPTICAL…”they expect it to increase the labor-force participation of new parents and narrow the testing gap between Black and white students… it might increase educational attainment, raise incomes, reduce crime rates, cut health expenditures…” https://t.co/lEboT8dJ8T
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 15, 2021
from Twitter https://twitter.com/kausmickey
July 14, 2021 at 08:06PM
via IFTTT
150M seems like a low estimate https://t.co/5C9an0zVru
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 14, 2021
from Twitter https://twitter.com/kausmickey
July 14, 2021 at 04:34PM
via IFTTT
Are you sure that’s not what the Democrats want? Bipartisan bill might give moderate Dems in House more reason to wthhold their vote from the big reconciliation bill. ‘Hey, we did infrastructure.” https://t.co/wADwIVzd2j https://t.co/hlNqL4OFYv
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 14, 2021
from Twitter https://twitter.com/kausmickey
July 14, 2021 at 04:28PM
via IFTTT
Thread https://t.co/n5mdWbIeae
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 14, 2021
from Twitter https://twitter.com/kausmickey
July 14, 2021 at 04:21PM
via IFTTT
You should see its Slack (I’m told) … https://t.co/BueXHaGV6H
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 14, 2021
from Twitter https://twitter.com/kausmickey
July 14, 2021 at 04:12PM
via IFTTT
“[T]he premier home in America for brilliant magazine writing.”
Is any magazine as self-important and humorless as @TheAtlantic?
https://t.co/J0qXQ8QrYv
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 14, 2021
from Twitter https://twitter.com/kausmickey
July 14, 2021 at 03:33PM
via IFTTT
We’ve been fiddling with implicit “marginal tax rates” as benefits phase out for decades. Don’t think it’s ever made much of a difference. Please correct me if I’m wrong. https://t.co/knPtXucWmq
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 14, 2021
from Twitter https://twitter.com/kausmickey
July 14, 2021 at 03:22PM
via IFTTT
Note that Norm Matloff, who knows the subject, seems to think Weinstein’s dark theories about a fake scientist shortage are basically accurate https://t.co/xfZOzECWmf https://t.co/NI9E3C7tpB
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 14, 2021
from Twitter https://twitter.com/kausmickey
July 14, 2021 at 01:59AM
via IFTTT
Wright delivers the goods on @EricRWeinstein — in sense that he tells you what you need to know about the guy if you are unfamiliar with all of Weinstein’s various doings. Not a hit piece! Bob must have been hiding his vast Weinstein knowledge on our podcast. https://t.co/DmgS5chr9I
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 14, 2021
from Twitter https://twitter.com/kausmickey
July 14, 2021 at 01:58AM
via IFTTT
Actual quote is here: https://t.co/Wmf2MINRRm
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 14, 2021
from Twitter https://twitter.com/kausmickey
July 13, 2021 at 11:55PM
via IFTTT
To modify Sen. Moynihan’s justly famous quote for this situation:
“The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society.
The central liberal difficulty is that politics can change a culture and screw it up even more.” https://t.co/u50uPgTtce
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 14, 2021
from Twitter https://twitter.com/kausmickey
July 13, 2021 at 11:40PM
via IFTTT
Yes, transformative. This is how the “underclass” was made. Enable non-working, non-families by giving them no-strings cash. https://t.co/JgOrH6Au4h
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 14, 2021
from Twitter https://twitter.com/kausmickey
July 13, 2021 at 10:12PM
via IFTTT