*Somebody's* getting to him … https://t.co/raOSK1PTrV
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 9, 2018
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Sounds like Trump's been doing too much golfing with Lindsey Graham. Just floating the idea of amnesty for 11M or more will encourage more illegal immigrants to try to cross border. https://t.co/6jghXLZKX8
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 9, 2018
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DEFINING WALL DOWN: "Democrats and Republicans struck notes of cautious optimism after the meeting, with both sides seeming to agree that 'the wall' and 'border security' are interchangeable terms …" https://t.co/LVUpHy1TSH Same sellout strategy Marc Short tried before.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 9, 2018
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"[Russian] doping whistleblower fears for his life" https://t.co/89T1Db6dvH
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 9, 2018
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A key part of free trade/loose borders dogma–helping the "losers" adjust via worker retraining programs–doesn't work very well. Maybe we need to adust to the failure of adjustment … https://t.co/Vb8rUEmbRY
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NEW JOURNALISM OF THE TRUMP ERA: @NYTimes surveys usual opponents of wall–including bureaucracies wanting more $ for fancy toys–makes zero effort to get the pro-wall side's argument. "Don't call both sides"–do they teach that in J-school now? https://t.co/x0C2KCdZn6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 9, 2018
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Dems' budget "slow walk" kind of a brilliant strategy, if true, no? Allows press to pretend any shutdown is about lots of issues (caps, CHIP, etc.) when really it's all about DACA.
Also suggests Dems know they can't win shutdown over just DACA. https://t.co/VhRcU8SzD3— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 9, 2018
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Republicans: Budget deal prospects are dimming https://t.co/R7ZQPU44Sb via @politico
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 9, 2018
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Next Melber will tell us that Anderson East doesn't really have a "PhD in TLC." https://t.co/oMIQXrFIqS
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 9, 2018
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What else have they turned over to a "third party agency for NBC Entertainment"? https://t.co/psFrjE8E1I
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In clip, Cotton willing to credit rising wages for "people who work with their hands or work on their feet" to Trump "keeping low-skilled and unskilled immigration under control." https://t.co/V8Kujy4hlH It's not just rising stock market. https://t.co/GxnpgvyywC
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I meant to link to this https://t.co/CRVWUvtCib But works either way.
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It's a good thing for immigration-controllers if Dems can show their base they're heroically fighting for DACAns before losing, no? https://t.co/TjW6CvX7Du (Less good if they win.)
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Probably need to RT this once an hour between now and November … https://t.co/DToRIcbStc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 8, 2018
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Tucker: If Republicans Betray Voters on Immigration, They're Toast https://t.co/9E3iZCTF0D
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— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 8, 2018
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Animating idea behind Gang of Amnesty (Durbin/Flake/Graham) proposal same as that behind old Gang of 8: How can we fool GOP voters into thinking they're getting something in exchange for a massive amnesty https://t.co/X1gWZZvoOu
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 8, 2018
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I didn't realize how awful the reported @LindseyGrahamSC DACA "compromise" proposal is: Only Potemkin "chain migration" reform, but a biggger-than-DACA amnesty https://t.co/X1gWZZvoOu Please, @realdonaldtrump, no more golf with this guy.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 8, 2018
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Only pressure from voters will keep them in line, as usual Unfortunately, WH phone line for comments (202 456 1111) still says it's shut down due to "inclement weather." Weak! Tempted to call actual WH switchboard … https://t.co/vABsCWFJ6p
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 8, 2018
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York's piece implicitly points to really bad potential DACA deal: Permament amnesty for DACAns in exchange for a) puny starter wall and b) ending small (50K/yr) visa lottery. Not close to worth it, when you consider that any big amnesty attracts millions more https://t.co/osERQe9PA9
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 8, 2018
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Well, press will be on Dems' side. Are other perennial factors against GOPs https://t.co/gQKxEcipfr But agree Dem idea of shutting down government to demand DACA vastly overstates the popularity/salience of DACAns' cause (& even Durbin probably knows this) https://t.co/JKbzr9ohic
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 8, 2018
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Trump could easily get taken to the cleaners on a DACA-For-Wall deal: How? The DACAns get legalized immediately but the Wall gets blocked in the courts. (There are a lot of anti-Trump judges out there.) Ending chain migration seems harder to block, no? https://t.co/qe6aLGEo8z
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 8, 2018
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Billionaire loose-border outfits–Zuckerberg's (FWD.us) and Jobs' (Emerson)–desperate for Trump to state his minimum demands for allowing amnesty. A sure sign he shouldn't do that. Would immediately become the new maximum demands. https://t.co/mWZLIRvCee
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 8, 2018
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Important point. Suspect Dems may well cave on giving Trump a bit of his wall. But that's not nearly enough to balance out an amnesty for DACAns. Need restrictions on future migration-eg. end "chain"–and E-Verify to counteract amnesty's "magnet" effect. https://t.co/7Vo1Vyp4rD
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 7, 2018
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"If we keep thinking the Trump voters had it wrong and 'should come to their senses,' we will lose in 2018."–S. Estrich https://t.co/b2UJO6eslK
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 7, 2018
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