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Mark Zuckerberg’s immigration lobbyist says President Donald Trump’s 2016 voters will stick with him “100 percent” in 2020 if he signs amnesty legislation backed by the Koch business group. “Polling and common sense dictates this to be true,” said a tweet from Todd Schulte, director of the FWD.US lobbying group, which is trying to preserve the federal policy of importing more than 1 million new consumers and workers each year. He continued: People think the President is gonna see a bunch of people vote for a Dem or Howard Schultz if he signs a border and daca deal? This is...

Anti-amnesty blogger Mickey Kaus highlighted Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)'s penchant for dodging questions by retreating to his memorized stump speech and labeled the donor-class candidate the Republican John Edwards. "Rubio's the GOP John Edwards," Kaus tweeted. "Both Rubio and Edwards have the gift of gab, which only takes you so far."

... [Ann Coulter] was riding high, perhaps the most famous polemicist of her day, the scourge of liberals everywhere and the fantasy of young conservative men's dreams. And then suddenly, she was nowhere. After having been relegated to a "debate" with her friend Mickey Kaus the year before, she was excluded from CPAC in 2015 where she'd been featured for 17 years. It seems that conservative organizations have been trying to have her dropped for a while but friends in high places had intervened. But the planners had had enough. She was very bitter about it, telling the Washington Examiner,...

Do You Have Amnesty in that Basket? Did Ted Cruz support an immigration solution that involved legalizing the 11 million or so illegals now in the U.S.? When we last left this dispute, Cruz staffers were denying it. True, a New York Times article had asserted that Cruz was carving out a “middle ground” on immigration, offering illegals legalization (work permits that would allow them to stay here) but making stopping short of the citizenship offered in the Senate’s “Gang of 8″ bill:Asked about what to do with the people here illegally, however, he stressed that he had never tried...

More on whether a GOP Senate will give us immigration amnesty: Fawn Johnson of National Journal contributes to the near-dominant school of MSM reporting on immigration, a sort of locker-room pep talk in which a journalist calls activist Frank Sharry and then sketches a fanciful optimistic scenario on how amnesty could well happen. (SNIP) But many Republicans have bought into the iffy argument that they have to do something before the 2016 election to improve their share of the Hispanic vote. (SNIP) But I’m not sure. Coulter’s vicious ad hominem attack on this column could be correct: a big pro-GOP...

I've been thrown off my health insurance -- THANKS, OBAMACARE! -- and have spent hours and hours over the past month trying to figure out my options now that the Democrats have made my old plan, which I liked, "illegal." (I prefer to think of my plan as "undocumented.") Whom do I bill for the hours of work Obamacare forced me to perform? How about you, Mickey? You're the smartest living liberal (faint praise), and you assured us that Obamacare was going to be fantastic. By now, Obama has issued "waivers" from Obamacare to about 99 percent of the country....

Ann Coulter at Saturday at CPAC on Saturday: "I mean my whole life I've heard Republicans hate black people, I've never seen any evidence of it until I read Marco Rubio's amnesty bill. We are the party that has always stood up for African-Americans. Who gets hurt the most by amnesty, by continuing these immigration policies it is low-wage workers, it is hispanics, it is blacks."

One of the most incisive, astute observers of the growing income inequality and stratification that characterizes large portions of this nation’s economy is writer Mickey Kaus. Unique among his colleagues for being a prominent voice within the mainstream media and yellow dog Democrat who opposes the mass, unskilled immigration which the institutional left and its press organs glorify, he know writes a regular column for the conservative Washington D.C. online news magazine The Daily Caller. Kaus’s voice is essential, because it represents the last concrete manifestation of New Deal liberalism untethered to the Democratic Party’s post-1965 infatuation with empowering “new”...

In an obviously effective attempt to attract free attention to his hopeless primary campaign against incumbent Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, California's Mickey Kaus has just announced the three backroom bribes that he would accept from the Obama administration to drop his challenge. The California primary is Tuesday.

Blogger Mickey Kaus won’t win his primary challenge, but could he shake Senator Boxer out of her lockstep-liberal stupor? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After Lyndon Johnson was elected to Congress in 1937, he got word that a liberal magazine, The New Republic, was going to profile him alongside other New Deal stalwarts. Johnson was horrified. He called a friend from the International Labor Organization and begged her to find some prominent labor figure to repudiate him. If “they put out that . . . I’m a liberal hero up here,” LBJ sputtered, “I’ll get killed. You’ve got to find somebody to denounce me!”...

Mickey Kaus held a low-key affair at his Venice apartment Friday night to gather signatures for his primary challenge vs. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. He was an affable host and talked one-on-one or in small groups with his guests, but made no big speech. Though he has a national reputation as a Democrat who criticizes other Democrats, Kaus is no closet conservative. “I believe in affirmative government and spending gobs of money,” he said.

Mickey Kaus has caught whatever malady causes TNR editor Jonathan Cohn to believe that Democrats will be in a stronger position in November if they pass health care reform. Cohn premised his argument on the claim that reform would produce “tangible benefits scheduled to take effect mere months after the bill becomes law.” Those benefits included the shrinking of the Medicare Part D “donut hole”, families being able to keep their kids on their policies

In the "card check" bill, if a newly unionized employer can't reach an agreement with the new union, an arbitrator will step in and impose a two-year contract. I thought Jennifer Rubin must be wrong when she said that this arbitrator would be a government employee: snip But it turns out Rubin is right. Or at least she might be right. The arbitration parts of the card check bill are so vaguely drawn that nobody knows who the arbitrators will be. The job of appears to be delegated entirely to the Federal Mediation Service. The FMS might decide to use...

1 DOWN, 11,999,999 TO GOAugust 22, 2007 Mickey Kaus has raised the intriguing possibility that, since Bush's amnesty plan went down to humiliating defeat once Americans got wind of what the elites had planned for us, the Bush administration might respond by intentionally targeting highly sympathetic illegal aliens for deportation "in as clumsy, heartless and lawsuit-inspiring a fashion as possible, in order to create the maximum number of negative headlines." Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff described anti-amnesty Americans as being satisfied with nothing less than "the death penalty" for illegal aliens and recently warned of "some unhappy consequences" unless illegal...

In an interview on Bloggingheads.tv on Wednesday, Mickey Kaus mentions Scooter Libby Socrecard (The Daily Blade, February 14, 2007). NOTE: This is the last item in a feature called The Daily Blade, and appears under articles titled "Dem Documentaries Coming To A Theater Near You?"; "Death Certificates Proposed For Aborted Babies"; and "Norah Jones Is The Stiletto’s Kinda Gal".

The Cannon Con When immigration-legalization backers pose as something else. But wait: there's a deeper lack of contrast. Bilbray ran on a platform of opposition lto illegal immigration. Meanwhile, Cannon ... also ran on a plaform of opposition to illegal immigration. Here's the text of a last-minute Cannon TV ad, as reported in the Salt Lake Tribune: "I'm Congressman Chris Cannon and I approve this message." Female announcer "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." Male announcer: " But Congressman Chris Cannon says only if they come here legally." It's all eerily reminiscent of...

This is a "vlog," i.e., when you click the link, you'll get a Windows Media or RealVideo dialog between Bob Wright and Mickey Kaus, caused by Mr. Wright freakout over being accused by Ann Coulter of having "affection for terrorists." I found Wright's meltdown pretty funny. And now I must go to work. Enjoy.

 "I've always thought Kerry was a terrible candidate," [Slate.com Commentator Mickey] Kaus, a Democrat, said in an interview. "I think he is proving that ... now. Democrats are definitely panicking." (Jill Lawrence, “Dems Divided Over Kerry's Performance,” USA Today, www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-05-11-kerry-usat_x.htm, 5/12/04)

An anti-frontrunner linkfest. Kerryphobia Korner: Many emailers have told me I should lay out more rigorously my reasons for opposing John Kerry. I'll try to do that during the coming post-New Hampshire "Turkey Shoot." For those who can't wait, here's a) a link to John Ellis' item on Kerry's "pathetic" '90s attempted rethinking of affirmative action, and b) Todd's Treasure Trove of Kerry Kontradictions, in today's New York Times, and c) a link to a medium-sized kf rant about the senator, from a year ago. It's been barely two months since Kerry declared for president, and he's already 1) zig-zagged...

kausfiles Kerry Hypocrisy Watch He was on their side! By Mickey KausUpdated Saturday, Jan. 24, 2004, at 3:49 PM PT If none of Kerry's opponents makes a good negative ad against him based on the information in this Jonathan Cohn article, then the Iowans will have won! ... On the stump this week, Kerry portentously attacked special interests and complained that retirement accounts have been "decimated" by the "scandals of Enron and Worldcom," but Cohn makes it clear that an overbroad law that Kerry supported limiting the ability of investors to sue over fraudulent accounting practices contributed to the Enron...