Mickey Kaus: Is There Anything Not to Love About This Guy?

Via Backyard Conservative:

Mickey Kaus announces three bribes he’ll accept from Obama to drop out

Turns out the three bribes Kaus is willing to take are:

--Head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement to push for an actual physical fence on the Mexico border to stop illegal immigrants and to end the "anointed incumbent...Boxer's obsessive talk of amnesty, sorry, 'a path to citizenship'" that actually acts as a powerful lure for even more illegal immigrants.

--Second, Kaus kindly offers, Obama could put him on the National Labor Relations Board so he could thwart "Big Labor's attempt to add to their dwindling memberships by avoiding secret ballots in union organizing drives."

--Finally, Kaus offered to accept an administration job offer to the Department of Education to write "a scathing report" on California teachers' unions and their deleterious impact on the state.

As they say, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for that to happen.  I also won't hold my breath while waiting for the people of California to actually act in their own best self interest and kick Barbara Boxer to the curb.  In any case, Kaus is doing a wonderful job of highlighting the problems that California faces and proposing changes that aren't the same old tax and spend "solutions" that have all but driven California in to the ocean.

Your "No Sh*t" Post of the Day

Via Instapundit:

Democrats Are Manipulating the Marchers

Amnesty isn't going to happen anytime soon. Democrats should stop holding effective border control hostage to a legalization plan they're using to rev up the Latino vote.

Participants in Saturday's pro-amnesty marches are being used by the Democratic party elite, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mickey Kaus charged today.

"There is not going to be an amnesty this year, or next year. The majority of the American people don't want it, for good reason. They want to secure the borders first," he said. "Amnesty before we secure the borders would only encourage yet another wave of illegals and hurt the wages of unskilled Americans (and legal immigrants)."

"But every time Democratic politicians in D.C. need to rev up the Latino vote, they dangle the false promise of an amnesty bill. At some point. Latino voters are going to realize they're being used." (emphasis added)

Why should Latinos realize that they are being used?  It has been decades and blacks haven't figured it out yet.  Anyway, isn't using groups what the Democratic party does as a matter of policy?  They've been stringing gays, women, blacks, and Latinos along forever but they do it with a sort of "smiley face fascism" that leads the targeted group to believe that they are being offered a hand up when in reality, the Dems keep a foot firmly planted on the small of their backs. 

I'm starting to like Mickey Kaus more and more.  California needs a strong dose of common sense and Kaus appears prepared to administer it.