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Reposting twitter.com/kausmickey/sta…
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Uh-oh. Maybe this is just last-minute careerist suck-up. Or maybe he knows something. … twitter.com/dansenor/statu…
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Has any recent book done more damage than “Team of Rivals”?
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Reminder: Judge Bork also said it was OK to criminalize flag burning articles.latimes.com/1989-06-26/new… Not his finest hour.
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One day it will be fashionable to be a simple egg. An expression of solidarity. There will be Egg Pride marches and… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
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Main point is that once GOP estab. has SCOTUS filled-just that, even without tax cuts-leverage/balance of power shi… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
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The insidious Ryan/Pence/Priebus/Singer/Senor/Norquist strategy to stop/destroy Trump (& Trumpism) becomes clearer! kausfiles.com/2016/11/28/wat…
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Short, succinct. Last graf makes the basic point. twitter.com/RAVerBruggen/s…
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“Kris Kobach for DHS Secretary” amgreatness.com/2016/11/26/kri…
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Watch out, Trump! kausfiles.com/2016/11/28/wat…
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V-good point by @brianbeutler: Once GOP est. gets those two things no more need 4 Trump. Obverse paranoid gloss her… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
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New Republic’s Brian Beutler makes a good point: Once Congressional Republicans get an acceptable (to them) Supreme Court nominee, and some tax and regulatory cuts, they have vastly less need for Trump, no? They are likely to stop defending him and maybe even go on the attack. The outlines of a paranoid-but-plausible Ryan restorationist strategy now seem pretty clear: Step 1) Take up all available legislative space with tax reform, regulatory reform, the SCOTUS nominee and Ryan’s wildly unpopular grand plan to turn the bedrock Medicare program into a “premium support” (i.e. voucher) plan. No room for any controversial Trump legislation that would need the “100 days” honeymoon to push through; Step 2) Once SCOTUS and tax cuts are in hand, and Medicare voucherization bogs down or dies, declare that the country has been saved, turn on Trump, and effectively end his presidency one way or another. **… The upshot is that if Trump wants to pass any legislation that Ryan/Pence/Priebus/Singer/Senor/Norquist don’t want (i.e. relating to immigration and trade) he’d better do it quickly, before he lets them achieve their two immediate goals. …
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** — It only takes a majority to impeach. But Republicans could simply not pass anything Trump proposes, while launching investigations into his executive actions.
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In other words, Ryan’s preferred legislation is frankly presented as a substitute for @realDonaldTrump doing what h… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
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Remember, with Mitt you get adviser @dansenor, whose anti-Trump machinations haven’t gotten enough publicity realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/08/…!
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New @GroverNorquist spin clear-‘Hey Trump doesn’t need 2 do anything abt trade & immig. if he gets tax & reg reform’ washingtonexaminer.com/can-the-trump-…
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Maybe Trump said ‘you and him go fight” and then he’ll decide as referee. Unconventional but not necessarily boxed… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
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GOP voucherization effort seems insane, unless goal is not to win but to have a huge messy fight that hamstrings Tr… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
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Zero Pinocchios: Top Dem Says GOP Efforts To Overhaul Medicare Will Fail: ‘Make Our Day’ talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/chuck…
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3D carprinter claims huge capital saving ($1B plant now $50M). Also huge loss of assmbly jobs? (But skilled jobs’d… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
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Between Ryan’s Medicare desconstruction & Ryan’s tax reform, there’ll be no time for Trump. At some point Trump wil… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
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So Trudeau was more enthusiastic about Castro than Putin cbsnews.com/news/fidel-cas…
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The best thing at the LA Auto Show was the Airstream that Tesla uses as an office. Tells you something about curren… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
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One small thing a new Secretary of State could do is react against the Dept.’s natural affinity for soul-leaching b… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
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My Democratic friend P. (who I assume voted for Hillary) emails: “i get particular[ly] incensed by the Hitler / nazi name-calling which 1) debases political discussion 2) trivializes the horrors of the Holocaust and 3) belittles the sacrifice of, for ex, my father shot at the Battle of the Bulge.” Well-put! …
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Buried Lede: It’s now so easy to get into US many illegal immigrants don’t need coyotes … washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/…