April 26, 2017 - Pensito

RIP Tax Reform

April 26, 2017 Buck Banks

Trump’s tax reform package ain’t based on pay to play,
As it assumes the deficits will magically melt away.
Lawmakers are leery
Of trickle-down theory,
And most say Trump’s tax proposals are DOA.

Trump’s Assault on Political Norms Becoming Normal

April 26, 2017 Buck Banks

“The indelible takeaway from those first 100 days is that Trump’s assault on political norms has continued. In fact, he has violated Washington norms so casually and constantly that his norm-breaking is becoming normalized. That shattering of protocol and expectations may turn out to be more consequential than any of his massive policy promises or modest policy achievements to date.”

— Politico

Most Think Russia Influenced Campaign

April 26, 2017 Buck Banks

56%

A new ABC News-Washington Post poll finds that 56% of Americans think Russia tried to influence the 2016 presidential election, and 39% think the Trump campaign intentionally tried to assist such an effort. Just among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, suspicions soar: Sixty percent think Trump aides assisted Russian efforts.

Workers Who Make Ivanka’s Line of Clothes Receive $1 Per Hour

April 26, 2017 Buck Banks

$1/hour

“Workers at a factory in China used by the company that makes clothing for Ivanka Trump’s fashion line and other brands worked nearly 60 hours a week to earn wages of little more than $62 a week,” the Washington Post reports. “The factory’s 80 workers knit clothes for the contractor, G-III Apparel Group, which has held the exclusive license to make the Ivanka Trump brand’s $158 dresses, $79 blouses and other clothes since 2012.”

Limbaugh Says Trump Caving on Wall

April 26, 2017 Buck Banks

“I’m not happy to have to pass this on. I’m very, very troubled to have to pass this on. And I want to say at the outset that I hope my interpretation is wrong, and I hope this is not the case. But it looks like, from here, right here, right now, it looks like President Trump is caving on his demand for a measly $1 billion in the budget for his wall on the border with Mexico.”

— Rush Limbaugh, on his radio show.

Dent Won’t Support Trumpcare Retry

April 26, 2017 Buck Banks

“Based on what I’ve read, it does not change my position. I was a no, and I remain a no.”

— Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA), leader of the centrist Tuesday Group, told the Washington Examiner that he still opposes the House Republican healthcare repeal bill, saying that a proposed compromise does not address his key concerns.

Day: April 26, 2017

RIP Tax Reform

Trump’s Assault on Political Norms Becoming Normal

— Politico

Most Think Russia Influenced Campaign

56%

Workers Who Make Ivanka’s Line of Clothes Receive $1 Per Hour

$1/hour

Limbaugh Says Trump Caving on Wall

— Rush Limbaugh, on his radio show.

Dent Won’t Support Trumpcare Retry

“Based on what I’ve read, it does not change my position. I was a no, and I remain a no.”

— Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA), leader of the centrist Tuesday Group, told the Washington Examiner that he still opposes the House Republican healthcare repeal bill, saying that a proposed compromise does not address his key concerns.

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.