A big deal: "Senate parliamentarian rules Democrats can sidestep two more GOP filibusters" https://t.co/B2fRuCTsxP

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 5, 2021

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April 05, 2021 at 07:18PM
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“It’s got too much junk in it." https://t.co/xgwRAyWTUQ

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 5, 2021

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April 05, 2021 at 06:45PM
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Areas with "exclusionary zoning" that we want to affect are richer areas–i.e. areas least likely to be susceptible to lure of some federal grant money. https://t.co/CSUq1p3dyY

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 5, 2021

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April 05, 2021 at 04:20PM
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Biden is going to "eliminate exclusionary zoning laws" through "a grant program that would provide funding to areas that eliminate exclusionary zoning."? https://t.co/uIn59nP6hp Seems… how to put it … unlikely to have much impact.https://t.co/LI5mJbtddd

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 5, 2021

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April 05, 2021 at 04:13PM
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So are they going to rip down I-10 in New Orleans? If not, plans to “'reconnect' communities of color to economic opportunity" seem unclear. (Similar to way the War On Poverty's mechanisms were unclear?) https://t.co/RX7jSpfebI

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 5, 2021

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April 05, 2021 at 04:01PM
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PROACTIVE FRAMING! WH coordinates messaging with all stakeholders! The message: "Root causes." Does anyone think this is adequate? Takes a long time to deal with 'root causes,' and is unlikely to work at that. People are streaming across the border *now.* https://t.co/d5Ra5i82tP

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 5, 2021

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April 05, 2021 at 03:03PM
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This is the moment when the Parrot Room won the future https://t.co/GWzNTfpHpa

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 3, 2021

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April 03, 2021 at 08:45AM
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NEW Parrot Room is up: https://t.co/jEoRK0rG9v

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 3, 2021

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April 03, 2021 at 12:29AM
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New @bloggingheads podcast is up. We try to figure out Biden's infrastructure strategy, plus Ukraine plus Gaetzgate plus Iran plus Georgia (both), and so much more … https://t.co/zqMOAGj8w0

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 3, 2021

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April 02, 2021 at 09:07PM
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HHS's Dr.Rachel Levine on the unaccompanied child crisis at the border: " I think that you'll find that the situation will continue to improve." You want to bet on that? https://t.co/rUlnmI36q7

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 2, 2021

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April 02, 2021 at 03:09PM
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"With welfare state expansion, you’re really just moving quantities up and down"–@mattyglesias No. The fully refundable child tax credit is a qualitative shift — toward a UBI, and toward old no-work welfare system. Yglesias knows this! https://t.co/svFnMuRRrO [$]

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 2, 2021

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April 02, 2021 at 03:02PM
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"Lobbyists and special interests win by … raising taxes on themselves?" @jonathanchait asks. Well, yes-with high tax rates it becomes more important for corporations to pay lobyists to carve loopholes. K St. prospers. Chait knows this. It's DC 101 https://t.co/Ga95NZn7jL

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 2, 2021

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April 02, 2021 at 02:31PM
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What's the clever, MAGA-like acronym for "Win the Future"?

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 2, 2021

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April 02, 2021 at 01:17PM
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"Republicans can’t even support a child tax credit." Best news I've heard all day.** You can't be populist without supporting a permanent dole for non-working families? https://t.co/3OZmaFvpg0

**–Though I don't trust it.

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 30, 2021

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March 29, 2021 at 11:54PM
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.@nytimes headlines approaching North Korean grace and brevity. https://t.co/iGgKJtvTAO

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 29, 2021

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March 29, 2021 at 04:19PM
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Says Rep. Cuellar, a Democrat … https://t.co/2HZH5UU052

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 29, 2021

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March 29, 2021 at 04:12PM
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It's definitely not just families, or unaccompanied children. Also single adults (i.e. men looking for work) https://t.co/S0wO9JyZbj https://t.co/k0Q36xKGJF

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 29, 2021

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March 29, 2021 at 03:56PM
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Wait until we add on top of this single adults, now being turned back in large numbers under Title 42 emergency health (pandemic) authority. That is, the ones we catch are turned back… https://t.co/iex4k7D8l2

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 29, 2021

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March 29, 2021 at 02:57AM
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This chart ends sometime in 2020. I think there has been movement since then … https://t.co/tiGPwtRwkW

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 29, 2021

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March 29, 2021 at 02:15AM
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Certainly if there were seeming confusion like this in a Trump administration it would get more play. (And then @maggiehabermanb would tell us what was really going on. ) https://t.co/eK833gC9o0

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 29, 2021

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March 28, 2021 at 08:03PM
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Does not look like 'democracy is at stake' in Georgia, at least. https://t.co/4ULvSh2QfI

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 28, 2021

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March 28, 2021 at 07:58PM
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That means BOTH parties have an interest in hyping the severity of Georgia's new law: Dems to stampede Congress into ending filibuster, GOPS to convince their skittish voters it's worth voting–'See the tough new law we passed.' The rest of us don't have to fall for the hype, tho https://t.co/eCTVA9I942

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 28, 2021

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March 27, 2021 at 11:09PM
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Gets around to a valuable insight in penultimate paragraph: GOP must *appear* to be tightening election laws to solve their base-won't-vote-cause-they-think-it's-rigged problem.

This may be way more important to them than actually lowering the Dem vote. https://t.co/XkjnKqMTg1

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 28, 2021

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March 27, 2021 at 11:03PM
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Don't be half-'workist' … https://t.co/LVjOvZzgso

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 27, 2021

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March 27, 2021 at 07:12PM
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Dems embrace the "relief" FDR scorned https://t.co/vSPaCXOJ6n But maybe GOPs need to embrace the guaranteed job (WPA) idea he sought to replace relief with …

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 27, 2021

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March 27, 2021 at 07:10PM
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