A Lower Refugee Ceiling Is Better for Most Refugees, the Host Countries, and America https://t.co/gm1hOwTNFt
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 11, 2018
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If I were paranoid, and I am, I'd suspect this wasn't a Yoder play, but a Ryan play, or a Koch/Singer play–at least a loose-borders GOP lobbyist/donor play. Lowly Yoder the cat's paw!
Can't wait to see what the Ryanist Loose Border Lobby has planned for the lame duck session. https://t.co/iT03KYcm9B
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 11, 2018
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Hmm. If a) GOP leadership didn't alert Sessions to backstabbing @KevinYoder amendments & b) all but one of the GOPs on committee voted for the plan even AFTER Sessions' phone pleas, doesn't that suggest this ain't about Yoder. He's pawn in leadership play. https://t.co/G02ReO12rr
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TEAM PLAYER OF THE WEEK: All "those ugly tweets"! "Many" of them "racist."
"So welcome, Sarah, to The Times." — @BretStephensNYT
cc: @deanbaquet @jbennethttps://t.co/YIIE9V59Sz— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 11, 2018
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Still only 1 conservative network. Murdoch must be devastated by these ongoing liberal victories. … https://t.co/sqEcWyOHUF
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 11, 2018
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He *is* suggesting taking Fox off the air. Not just speculation that Alex Jones isn't the stopping point … https://t.co/hkntIi7lDi
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 11, 2018
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WELCOME, SARAH! Just a note: Jeong's "longer form" pieces, which everyone seems to like, are, um, edited. Aren't her unfiltered tweets more likely to be the "core" her, rather than a distraction. https://t.co/YIIE9V59Sz
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Case for pre-election immigration showdown … https://t.co/6ji6kTutoq
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The innocent have nothing to fear! https://t.co/atdrRgNAWC
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 10, 2018
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The innocent have nothing to fear! https://t.co/atdrRgNAWC
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 10, 2018
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President should know how to get something out of Congress controlled by his own party. He's hardly powerless. He chose to go along with Ryan's establishment agenda first, his own immigration agenda later, down the road, yeah we'll get to it, … https://t.co/gWVy86ulxx
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 9, 2018
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Illegal immig. hasn't "continued to surge" (it's normal https://t.co/2Sq9Q9CsSw) but Trump's utter failure to pass ANY immmig-control measures (wall/E-Verify/loophole closing) is stunning. Either he doesn't know how to use Pres. power or chose not to. https://t.co/6I5dbZq8gx
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 9, 2018
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"In the past three years, workers in the bottom two-fifths of the income distribution have seen comparable or faster real wage growth than they did in the late 1990s." Seems even a bit too good to believe, given memories of how hot the late1990s were. https://t.co/VxeyxrPaHq
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"In the past three years, workers in the bottom two-fifths of the income distribution have seen comparable or faster real wage growth than they did in the late 1990s." Seems even a bit too good to believe, given memories of how hot the late1990s were. https://t.co/VxeyxrPaHq
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 9, 2018
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"In the past three years, workers in the bottom two-fifths of the income distribution have seen comparable or faster real wage growth than they did in the late 1990s." Seems even a bit too good to believe, given memories of how hot the late1990s were. https://t.co/VxeyxrPaHq
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 9, 2018
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Much more optimistic picture of wage growth from @JasonFurman https://t.co/VxeyxrPaHq than from NYT's @dleonhardt https://t.co/oRs9Ps6xvJ I'm going with Furman. (Both ignore immigration, of course.)
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 9, 2018
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The much lamented employment-population ratio is not even bad for unskilled workers."For that subset of workers, its employment-population ratio in July matched its record high set in 2007." They're working. https://t.co/hcjzPN6LX4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 9, 2018
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"The biggest labor-market surprise these days …might be that goods-producing job growth is surging." However you apportion credit between Trump and Obama, THIS IS WHAT TRUMP PROMISED, no? And it is what's happening. Finally the least educated workers aren't being left behind. https://t.co/WwM4kBTAU3
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IS TRUMP DELIVERING? "Maybe Worker Inequality Isn't Inevitable After All" https://t.co/hcjzPN6LX4 "[I]f we look at which demographic groups are faring better in the job market than at any other time on record, those with less than a high school degree top the list."
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 9, 2018
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Imagine if instead of prioritizing Ryan/McConnell's unpopulist agenda (taxes/regs/Gorsuch) while alienating suburban GOPs with his "unpresidential" populist demeanor, Trump had acted more "dignified" but prioritized immigration & infrastructure. He'd be unstoppable, no? https://t.co/MRLYnR6XBT
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 9, 2018
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Without the immigration card Olsen's advice –eg. use tag line “We’re not deplorables, we’re Americans”– seems sound but several bricks shy of a load. If the Romney-Clinton suburbs are already lost for 2018, Trump has even less to lose by making a big immigration fuss, no? https://t.co/OkbI03IlkN
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Thread https://t.co/OkbI03IlkN
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The Poverty of Ryanism … https://t.co/xMJmRqLCqX
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 9, 2018
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They didn't brief that before? https://t.co/DKFkVE2o89
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 9, 2018
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"Migrant Families Keep Streaming Across The Border Despite Hot Weather…" https://t.co/DT1FGhV7H6 July figures are out: Overall levels fall in line with seasonal norm, but not arrests of family units, which remained high https://t.co/2Sq9Q9CsSw
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 8, 2018
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