Bill Moyers, for Chrissake … https://t.co/UR9XwdVSaN
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 19, 2019
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Who's next? Paul Ryan? https://t.co/CJyQ9YZrmE
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Fixed. Apologies for the double tweet
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Short's one of the key Koch-allied aides who conspicuously failed to get even a minimal Trump immigration agenda thru Congress. Hard for Trump to send a stronger signal that he hasn't learned the lesson of that failure–and maybe that he doesn't care–than letting him get rehired https://t.co/UbQHJKuKF4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 19, 2019
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I never understood that Dylan lyric "There's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all." Now I do! https://t.co/UbQHJKuKF4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 19, 2019
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Here's a list of Breitbart articles detailing Short's ineffective (at best) efforts on immigration when he was Trump's top legislative aide. It's as if UCLA rehired Steve Alford https://t.co/jcoTkOADm9 https://t.co/4GmGqQOZxl
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Short's one of the key Koch-allied aides who conspicuously failed to get even a minimal Trump immigration agenda thru Congress. Hard for Trump to send a stronger signal that he hasn't learned the lesson of that failure–and maybe that he doesn't care–then letting him get rehired https://t.co/UbQHJKuKF4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 19, 2019
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I blame Phish https://t.co/b1bL96v6C3
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Trump has often talked about the wall, but current and former White House officials say it has not been a top priority among senior aides." … https://t.co/TaNeDye04M
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 19, 2019
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Bothsidesism is a terrible thing, until you really need it to get out of a jam …. https://t.co/i2t9LTzvsQ
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The problem is that TPS (Temporary Protected Status) is never temporary–as we've learned when Trump tried to end it for some countries. https://t.co/cvfGxKnga6
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Speaking of cartoony, this reminds me: Has anyone gotten to the bottom of Dan Wolfe, the mysteriously on-the-nose "Conservative Reagan Republican"–("No Obamacare, socialism, sharia”)–who first busted Anthony Weiner? https://t.co/zvCDEKYuxg https://t.co/bEYq6lbRgm
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 19, 2019
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THEY KNEW THEY BLEW OFF WALL: "More than half a dozen current & former [WH] officials told me that after they passed their big tax bill last Congress, a broad consensus emerged: Trump wouldn't get anything else big through Congress before his re-election." https://t.co/scJtMXBhMZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 19, 2019
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So New Yorkers are allowed to worry about a "50% population increase" due to migration from elsewhere. But you're not allowed to think like that when it comes to US immigration policy? https://t.co/QGggUxEZqB
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 18, 2019
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But Kochs played a role in the failure of Congress to enact Trump's immigration priorities (which are not theirs)–which in turn arguably hurt GOPs in the last election, no? https://t.co/RLJ3UxVDPr
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 18, 2019
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Wait: "Mocking the *concept*…of hate crimes" [E.A.] isn't allowed on Facebook? So no blog posts like this one from Andrew Sullivan (https://t.co/TmYGdTbyYf) even if wholly abstract? Can we mock the concept of Facebook's censorship model? https://t.co/om9DG9jifk #Trending
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 18, 2019
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Where is @lnstapundit when you need him? (He was always suggesting the non-delegation doctrine wasn't dead.) https://t.co/WcgU0KO47T
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 18, 2019
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Patrick Caddell: The real election surprise? The uprising of the American people https://t.co/mL4J6Zu2S5 Published day before 2016 election. Prescient! Also think he may be right about "tribalism" not dividing America–80% were pissed off in a potentially fluid way.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 17, 2019
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My interpretation of this: Trump thinks he needs to keep the pot boiling. As immigration fight devolves into tedious court proceedings on wall funding, he senses vacuum of polarizing drama ahead. Fecklessly lashing out at media is his default pot-boiler. (Prediction: Won't work) https://t.co/cCrjMPGcW0
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 17, 2019
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"Whether we come from poverty or wealth…we are all equal in the eyes of God. (Cheering) But as Americans, that's not enough. We must be equal in the eyes of each other."– Reagan, 1992 convention address https://t.co/HBIMT5YWQQ https://t.co/1e398vyxte
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 17, 2019
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"At one point, he declared the aides did not represent him and the statement should be rescinded," Tick-tock from @WaPo confirms Trump's adversary relationship with his own aides–e.g. Marc Short. Why did he pick them, then? https://t.co/9SuakR5PTQ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 17, 2019
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We disagree https://t.co/5mEPNFLcR8
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 17, 2019
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One exception would be ensuring those at the bottom have enough to fully participate in society–ie don't fall out bottom into some kind of underclass. That's the case for raising unskilled wages by regulating trade and immigation.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 17, 2019
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The classic institution that enforced social equality directly was the military draft. Now it's gone, apparently never to return. Harder to come up with alternatives, but Medicare-for-all could be one of them. Or national service. Or just expanding the public, class-mixing sphere https://t.co/xvyms79ZfH
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 17, 2019
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And it's especially perverse to try to produce social equality/respect by extending and perfecting meritocratic mobility, which only reinforces the idea that those who win really deserve to win (and those who lose…). Think you need to reinforce social equality directly. https://t.co/oGePl6k4wQ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 17, 2019
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