March 26, 2017 - Pensito

Escape-a-Lago

March 26, 2017 Buck Banks

Following the healthcare debacle, Trumpism’s looking bleak,
Between Comey and Ryan, it’s been a helluva week.
So it’s off to Mar-a-Lago
To give his golf game a go,
For the twelfth time in just nine weeks.

Trump Handed Merkel a Bill for NATO

March 26, 2017 Buck Banks

£300 billion

President Trump handed German chancellor Angela Merkel a bill — thought to be for more than £300bn — for money her country “owed” NATO for defending it when they met last week, the Times of London reports. The bill — handed over during private talks in Washington — was described as “outrageous” by one German minister. Said the minister: “The concept behind putting out such demands is to intimidate the other side, but the chancellor took it calmly and will not respond to such provocations.”

GOP’s Agenda in a Shambles

March 26, 2017 Buck Banks

“I don’t know that we could pass a Mother’s Day resolution right now.”

— Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), quoted by Politico, on the GOP’s agenda.

Rooney Can’t Name One GOP Positive in Eight Years

March 26, 2017 Buck Banks

“I’ve been in this job eight years, and I’m wracking my brain to think of one thing our party has done that’s been something positive, that’s been something other than stopping something else from happening. We need to start having victories as a party. And if we can’t, then it’s hard to justify why we should be back here.”

Day: March 26, 2017

Escape-a-Lago

Trump Handed Merkel a Bill for NATO

£300 billion

GOP’s Agenda in a Shambles

“I don’t know that we could pass a Mother’s Day resolution right now.”

— Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), quoted by Politico, on the GOP’s agenda.

Rooney Can’t Name One GOP Positive in Eight Years

— Rep. Tom Rooney (R-FL), quoted by The Atlantic.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

44%

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by Deadline, in his July 4th message.

Numerati

$4,600

11

30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%

81

A Reuters analysis of Trump’s public comments from June 23 through July 6 (13 days) — when a string of left-wing Democratic candidates won their party’s primaries in New York — found he invoked communism 81 times.