Friday, January 29, 2016
The amnesty of a lesser god: Senator Rand Paul eviscerated Ted Cruz who was for legalization of illegal immigrants in 2013
From the transcript of last night's debate, here, where Senator Rand Paul called BS on Cruz' poison pill argument and showed that Cruz was sincerely for legalization, a lesser form of amnesty but an amnesty no less:
PAUL: I was there and I saw the debate. I saw Ted Cruz say, "we'll take citizenship off the table, and then the bill will pass, and I'm for the bill."
The bill would involve legalization. He can't have it both ways. But what is particularly insulting, though, is that he is the king of saying, "you're for amnesty." Everybody's for amnesty except for Ted Cruz.
But it's a falseness, and that's an authenticity problem -- that everybody he knows is not as perfect as him because we're all for amnesty. I was for legalization. I think, frankly, if you have border security, you can have legalization. So was Ted, but now he says it wasn't so. That's not true.
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Trump not participating last night did two useful things:
It made the debate Pig Pile on Cruz night.
And it gave Rand Paul a spot to come back to the main stage and make this argument.
Trump wins again.
James Pethokoukis on China trade reminds me of my doctor pushing statin drugs
As everyone knows, statin drugs for cholesterol inhibit CoQ10 synthesis. So now the doctors push a CoQ10 supplement on you at the same time they push the cholesterol drug.
As George W. Bush famously said, "That doesn't make any sense."
So along comes James Pethokoukis confronted with the study showing how the opening to China trade destroyed many American jobs and lives.
His solution?
An expanded earned income credit, wage subsidies, and other government safety net initiatives to encourage work over retirement.
And relocation assistance to where the jobs are.
Never mind we don't want to move to China, India, Pakistan, Thailand or Indonesia.
Like Keynesians and MDs pushing drugs libertarians can never be proven wrong.
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Top ten 2015 online news providers
"Overall, the top 10 publishers -- together owning around 60 news sites -- account for 47% of total online traffic to news content last year, with the next-biggest 140 publishers accounting for most of the other half, SimilarWeb found. ...
"MSN.com accounted for all of MSN’s traffic, again with 27 billion page views, followed by ESPN.go.com, with 23 billion; CNN.com, with 8.8 billion; Drudge Report, accounting for all of Matt Drudge’s traffic at 8.5 billion; Buzzfeed.com, at 6.8 billion; Foxnews.com, at 6.9 billion; NYtimes.com, with 6.3 billion; News.yahoo.com, at 6 billion; Cnet.com, at 5.2 billion; and Huffingtonpost.com, at 4.3 billion."
More here.
Rupert Murdoch, owner of FOX News and The Wall Street Journal, doesn't care illegals cut in line or about jobless Americans
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| Rupert Murdoch is working on wife #4 |
Here in The Wall Street Journal in "Immigration Reform Can't Wait" from June 2014:
"We need to give those individuals who are already here—after they have passed checks to ensure they are not dangerous criminals—a path to citizenship so they can pay their full taxes, be counted, and become more productive members of our community.
"Next, we need to do away with the cap on H-1B visas, which is arbitrary and results in U.S. companies struggling to find the high-skill workers they need to continue growing."
We're going to find out what John Kasich means by "buried"
Quoted here December 29th:
“If I get buried in New Hampshire, it’s over.”
Kasich is running on average -19.6 behind Trump in New Hampshire and -0.5 behind Cruz.
Shut up Mark Levin you dummy! Trump has reversed Cruz' lead in Iowa in THREE polls ... count 'em
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Donald Trump doesn't need any advice from you, Levin.
At the beginning of January Cruz was ahead in Iowa by 4 in the NBC poll, but now Trump is ahead by 7 in the same.
Cruz was ahead in Iowa by 5 in the Monmouth poll at the beginning of December, but now in the same poll Trump is ahead by 7.
And in the FOX poll Cruz was ahead by 4 at the beginning of January, but Trump is now ahead by 11 in the FOX poll.
Libertarian Megan McArdle is a miserable cretin, a female Henry F. Potter
Libertarian Megan McArdle's got hers, tough nuggies to you if you don't. What a miserable cretin she is.
Here:
"Whatever mistakes we made 20 years ago, we’re stuck with them now. ... I’m not stuck with them; I have a stable job, a lovely if somewhat decrepit row home in our nation’s capital, and a marvelously cheap smartphone manufactured in China. It’s someone else who got stuck with the decisions the elites made . . .."
Mr. Potter: [to George Bailey] Look at you. You used to be so cocky. You were going to go out and conquer the world. You once called me "a warped, frustrated, old man"! What are you but a warped, frustrated young man? A miserable little clerk crawling in here on your hands and knees and begging for help. No securities, no stocks, no bonds, nothin' but a miserable little $500 equity in a life insurance policy.
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Yesterday Rush Limbaugh told us Trump had to show up for the debate, today . . . not so much
Rush is just as clueless as everyone else.
Here is Rush today, after telling us yesterday Trump had to show up to the debate:
But the rules of the game say when there's a debate, you show up. Screw the rules, he's saying. Why should I willingly give them another shot at me in a circumstance they control, why should I do it? What's the sense in it for me? I'm leading; I'm running the pack here; why in the world should I put myself in that circumstance? I've already seen what's gonna happen.
The depths of The Art of the Deal were there yesterday for Rush to plumb, and he didn't, but today he supposedly did all of a sudden? What, Rush read the book last night? Come on now.
Rush is just making it up as he goes, trying to make sense of it all.
But I'll tell you what. This is what Trump is really doing from my perspective as one who voted for Reagan twice.
Trump is already acting like he's the president. Everything he's doing is in the mold of Reagan. He's going straight to the people every night, flying on his jet from venue to venue like a man driven, talking directly to the people, just as Reagan did every week in his press conferences and in his Oval Office addresses. And Trump's skipping the Iowa debate like the Gipper did and going to the people instead.
That is what Trump is all about -- going over everyone's head, especially the press' head, and talking directly to the people.
That was the secret to Reagan's success, and so far it is the secret to Trump's. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Trump sees himself as a continuation of Reagan. Both are liberals and Democrats turned conservatives and Republicans. And Reagan had just as hard a time convincing the established right then as Trump is having now.
Just look at the reaction of Establishment Republicans. They hate them both, especially the Bushies.
But the people? The people love them.
Just like Obama, Ted Cruz has been megalomaniacal from a young age
Video here:
“Well, other than that, take over the world, world domination, you know, rule everything,” the considerably skinnier Cruz said back then. “Rich, powerful, that sort of stuff.”
Both have been men in a hurry, using election to the Senate as a springboard to the presidency. That's called unseemly ambition, and Obama had it from the age of nine:
In A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother, author Janny Scott tells how young Barack - then known by the westernised abbreviation of 'Barry' - was pushed by his mother to reach for the sky right from the start. ... His mother's ambition was clearly not lost on the future U.S. president. When his Indonesian stepfather asked him once what he wanted to be when he grew up, he was probably expecting him to say an airline pilot or an athlete. '"Oh, prime minister', Barry answered,' wrote Ms Scott.
Donald Trump was on to Cruz' character in December when he said:
"I don't think he's qualified to be president," Trump told host Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday," adding: "Look at the way he's dealt with the Senate, where he goes in there like a — you know, frankly like a little bit of a maniac. You're never going to get things done that way."
Obama has had very few legislative achievements after seven years, hence the repeated recourse to executive action. Even Obamacare had to be shoved down our throats through legislative gymnastics and without a single Republican vote. It's how such ambition turns out.
Expect the same if Cruz somehow got elected.
In A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother, author Janny Scott tells how young Barack - then known by the westernised abbreviation of 'Barry' - was pushed by his mother to reach for the sky right from the start. ... His mother's ambition was clearly not lost on the future U.S. president. When his Indonesian stepfather asked him once what he wanted to be when he grew up, he was probably expecting him to say an airline pilot or an athlete. '"Oh, prime minister', Barry answered,' wrote Ms Scott.
Donald Trump was on to Cruz' character in December when he said:
"I don't think he's qualified to be president," Trump told host Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday," adding: "Look at the way he's dealt with the Senate, where he goes in there like a — you know, frankly like a little bit of a maniac. You're never going to get things done that way."
Obama has had very few legislative achievements after seven years, hence the repeated recourse to executive action. Even Obamacare had to be shoved down our throats through legislative gymnastics and without a single Republican vote. It's how such ambition turns out.
Expect the same if Cruz somehow got elected.
FOX's owner, Rupert Murdoch, is an outspoken advocate for mass legalization of illegal immigrants, just like Rubio, Bush, Cruz
We had to wait until Debate 6 for Marco Rubio to get one question about his advocacy of legalization in his Gang of Eight bill when all along Trump's campaign has been centered on opposition to legalization.
The debates arguably have been rigged to avoid the issue because the only one against legalization is Trump and the rest are for it.
Trump is right to move on.
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Trump campaign says Nyet to FOX debate which Limbaugh said Trump was only goosing for more eyeballs
Trump will lose nothing by not participating.
The last Democrat debate had about 10.2 million viewers, and the last Republican debate about 11.1 million. The shine is off.
The debates have served their purpose for Trump, and so has "conservative" talk radio.
Look for Trump to open up a new front in the campaign without them, except maybe for Michael Savage on whose show Trump appeared today, and maybe Rush's show.
Trump's campaign announced he was "definitely not" participating in the FOX debate, as reported here in WaPo.
Limbaugh predicted otherwise today, here:
Now, let me get a show of hands in there. I got three people here. Could have been on the Texas grand jury, for all I know. How many of you think Trump is going show up at the debate on Fox?
All three think he's gonna show up. Exactly. Exactly right. This is called hyping the audience. This is called creating an even larger audience than Fox got when they had their 25 million or 24 million, whatever it was. There's no question he's gonna show up. Well, there might be a question.
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