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Democrats practically begging GOP to try to Ryanize Medicare talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/medicar… (One reason I think GOP will somehow bury Ryan plan)
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Time for some traffic problems in Nogales? Christie’d be a TERRIBLE choice 4 DHS. He voted (by proxy) 4 Gang of 8 politico.com/blogs/donald-t…
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Democrats want to go to Mars. Republicans want to go to the moon. It’s like Coke (D) & Pepsi (R). twitter.com/conncarroll/st…
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OK, NOW I’M TERRIFIED: Donald Trump Meeting Ari Emanuel in New Jersey hollywoodreporter.com/news/donald-tr…
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Does not seem terrifying. It *is* speech. So we have an argument. Would become terrifying if he tried to shut down… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
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Psst. One of S Mnuchin’s partners in the big One West rescue/resale was…George Soros. forbes.com/sites/nathanva… Not that there’s anything…
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Well, some safety-net programs–eg Soc Sec–are work-tested and some are not. People draw a distinction between the… twitter.com/i/web/status/7…
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Merciless. Bodes well for the show, though Tucker might have trouble getting anyone to go on with him after that. twitter.com/AnnCoulter/sta…
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Immig. may be 4 current Dems what welfare was 4 B. Clinton-if you aren’t for controlling it mid class voters don’t… twitter.com/i/web/status/7…
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Immigration a “threshold issue” for … Dems. Need to secure borders in order to make pitch to Trumpy working class kausfiles.com/2016/11/17/the…
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It was supposed to be the GOPs who needed to ‘take immigration off the table.’ Turns out it’s the Dems kausfiles.com/2016/11/17/the…
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Business idea: Trolldeck — like Tweetdeck, except only has people who’ve blocked you.
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Those robots don’t build themselves, you know. … Oh wait. They do. twitter.com/techreview/sta…
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Interesting. Not something they’d have said in October. #weakening twitter.com/HotlineJosh/st…
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I suppose it’s immature to note that “Crybaby Hugbox” is a #goodbandname
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Seems like a good idea. Also a big lawsuit! (They must have thought of this.) twitter.com/TheMascotArmy/…
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Ana Navarro is on tilt, as @jbarro would say. … twitter.com/ananavarro/sta…
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He scored well on the Slate News Quiz? slate.com/articles/news_… twitter.com/emily_cohn/sta…
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Isn’t the problem for them that it’s not the panic button but the first button? And sometimes the only button. twitter.com/RMConservative…
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Maybe @twitter should be taken by eminent domain as a national Web town square. Might be the best offer they can ge… twitter.com/i/web/status/7…
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If we end up with a Left Twitter and a Right Twitter, well *that’s* not good … fastcompany.com/3065777/inside…
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So many times when Sessions was the *only* champion on immigration-control side. Cruz not close. Seems a big loss. twitter.com/amandacarpente…
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If @dansenor winds up with an ambassadorship out of this I don’t ever want 2 read about Trump’s vindictiveness again cnb.cx/2g2I45P
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THE BIG FLIP? Is it now in *Dems* interest to quickly put the immigration issue behind them? kausfiles.com/2016/11/17/the…
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Is it in the Democrats’ interest to finally put the immigration issue behind them? Here’s my thinking: Democrats always seemed to want to keep the immigration issue alive — it was supposed to be the key to mobilizing Latino voters. So Democratic leaders were comfortable resisting any kind of deal unless it was the total victory they wanted, namely a deal that (by placing amnesty before enforcement ) held out the prospect of large future flows of immigrants (i.e. Democrats). Anything less than that … well, don’t even think about a deal. They’d rather ‘have the issue.’
But now Democrats have learned a) the Latino vote is a whole lot less immigration-obsessed than the immigration-obsessed pollsters at Latino Decisions would have you believe; and b) Democrats desperately need a way to make populist common cause with the working class whites who responded to Trump’s border-control rhetoric. One obvious way to win those white voters back is by taking immigration ‘off the table,’ allowing Dems to make their traditional, effective pitches about Social Security, Medicare, wages, trade, Wall Street, etc.
I don’t expect a Dem pivot in this direction anytime soon — the party, and especially its activists, are too immured in identity politics. But you’d expect at least some self-interested Congressional Dems to be much more open to an Enforcement First compromise along Trumpish lines: Do what has to be done to secure the border, then, eventually, do something to legalize the undocumented who are still here.
The future votes Dems would give up — no never-ending waves of illegal migrants to eventually convert into voters, sorry! — would be more than compensated for by short and medium term access to the Trump Belt voters Dems fatally lost in ’16.**
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** — Immigration amnesty was supposed to be a “threshold issue” for Latinos. But maybe border control is a threshold issue for the bulk of working class voters in the same way controlling welfare handouts (by requiring work) was a prerequisite for the success of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama — if you don’t get that issue right, don’t bother talking to them about anything else.