Mickey Kaus Quotes

United States, Journalist
July 6, 1951

Robert Michael "Mickey" Kaus is an American journalist, pundit, and author, known for writing Kausfiles, a "mostly political" blog which was featured on Slate until 2010. Kaus is the author of The End of Equality and had previously worked as a journalist for Newsweek, The New Republic, and Washington Monthly, among other publications.

Also known as Pundit, Author

One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.

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If Americans are reluctant to go on the dole that's because they have a healthy work ethic.

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- Work
- Healthy
- Ethics

I'm not anti-immigration.

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- Immigration
People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.

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- People
- Turns
- Resorts
I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse.

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Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?

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- Beens
- Stigma
- Erased
I'm fortunate to make any money as a blogger.

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- Fortunate
- Bloggers
Do Obama and Boxer realize they are on the wrong side of a tsunami of voter discontent with a government run by and for the public employee unions?

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Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.

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- Party
- Seems
- Skins
I've often been accused of spending more time and energy criticizing my fellow Democrats than criticizing Republicans.

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My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.

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- Thinking
- Father
- Judging
I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.

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- Wall
- Read
- Streets