Doubt 2017 is even in the top half of bad year rankings https://t.co/Jav3CTQSiN
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 1, 2018
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Question is where we are heading https://t.co/bFCpyEOdwm
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 1, 2018
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Shouldn't stories about Lisa Bloom & sex harrassment note her distinguished work for Harvey Weinstein? https://t.co/Zlbyunegni Like talking about a Nixon campaign for clean government without mentioning Watergate. https://t.co/SpwYDS2Q7b
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 1, 2018
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We learned "Marc Short and budget director Mick Mulvaney would represent the president" in DACA talks w/ top Cong. leaders Wed. But who will represent what the pres. says he wants? Short, Mulvaney historically both immigration wusses https://t.co/2yzkmBY8nv
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 1, 2018
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Stick with me, kid, if you want the inside dope. https://t.co/2TPLB9YbgR
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 1, 2018
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Whew! Maybe @LindseyGrahamSC just wants a cataclysmic, disastrous war with Iran, not watering down chain migration restrictions https://t.co/nkk4STcD8h
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 31, 2017
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How was Trump's failure to build the wall a product of his "intemperance and dishonesty"? Seems like it was a product of total Democratic opposition. https://t.co/2ZuTPlBMN9
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 31, 2017
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Again, doesn't seem troubling if FBI *did* use the dossier (assuming it met whatever evidentiary standard FBI has to meet, eg to get FISA warrant). Info is info. But it's troubling if NYT is part of FBI leak to downplay dossier's role. https://t.co/FCeSNiTK8Z
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 31, 2017
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Note that later in story NYT says dossier was "not part of the justification" to start the Russia inquiry ("American officials said"). Words seems carefully chosen. Could be motive/factor if not official justification. https://t.co/iVDRF4CE7u https://t.co/0HB8It2v7K
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 31, 2017
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Talking about this: https://t.co/ktXd9Vl9hp
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 31, 2017
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PS: Did not mean "suggestion" to be snarky. I swear! Meant to be tentative (ie cover my a– if there's an obvious objection)
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 31, 2017
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Suggestion: Does it matter where info comes from, as long as it checks out? Most journos usually say no. Doesn't matter if FBI knowingly used a dossier funded by HRC. So what? Likewise, doesn't matter if Trump knows he benefits from Russian dirt, if accurate. https://t.co/pgAuJIw5jY
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 31, 2017
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If I were paranoid, and I am, I'd worry that @LindseyGrahamSC is carrying Trump's water on the FBI/dossier issue in order to gather chits to get Trump to sell out on the DACA amnesty issue. https://t.co/Rw1VrmyYeB
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 31, 2017
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The Big-Spending Immigrant theory. Sure immigrants lower wages but they make up for it by consuming! Very skeptical. Thread here https://t.co/jQqRbkY4KN https://t.co/XW3bXjAPly
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 31, 2017
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Even @LindseyGrahamSC seems to want to end ALL chain migration ("green cards shall be limited to minor children and spouses") unless he has some trick up his sleeve. Yawning gap within the old Gangof8, with Flake way out on left limb? https://t.co/xFkHc9isyl
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 30, 2017
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NYT Graf #8 ("It was not [the] dossier") seems sweeping & overconfident, even after reading just this NYT piece. Reeks of being the sort of "billboard graf" inserted by editors …
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 30, 2017
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Good point. Timing is everything in this business. Easy to see an outcome in which DACAns immediately legalized, a Wall starts and then gets blocked (by pro-amnesty lawyers) like one of those freeways that stops in mid-air … https://t.co/4tiFEdXdqk
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 30, 2017
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"Faced with the chasm in attitudes Goodhart charts, especially on immigration, liberals chose to put their fingers in their ears and sing la, la, la …" https://t.co/4Qx7mbYcZ3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 30, 2017
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"The so-called temporary effects in terms of displaced native workers and lower wages may last five or ten years, while the beneficial effects assume an absence of recession. And, even with no recession, if there is a continuing inflow of migrants …" https://t.co/ObCYopQGCr
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 30, 2017
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The anti-Trump people are despairing. Half the pro-Trump people are despairing. Silicon Valley was going to save us and now we hate them too. Future a grim merit caste system & then the robots. (Hope I'm in a bad mood.) https://t.co/bp8Ayd3oGb
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 30, 2017
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Note Flake says "stops chain migration FOR THE DREAMERS." I.e.–for *only* the Dreamers. WH wants to end chain migration period–for all–which should dramatically reduce unskilled immigration and counter big magnet effect of any Flake amnesty. https://t.co/AK4UsDJNgQ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 30, 2017
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Sure we're "not a despairing nation?" We seem pretty despairing! Maybe recognizing that would be a start … https://t.co/TNqMG971I7
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 30, 2017
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You sure about the "no nukes" part? Didn't even the Greens want nukes? https://t.co/UuKsvHjxuU
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 30, 2017
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You sure about the "no nukes" part? Didn't even the Greens want nukes? https://t.co/UuKsvHjxuU
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 30, 2017
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Weird how it's accepted that supply of natives "not officially in the labor market" who *might* take jobs is "holding down wage growth," but supply of iimmigrant workers doesn't have that effect. Immigrants must be magical https://t.co/r2qoUraMhR
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 30, 2017
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