May 14, 2018 - Pensito

Trump Has Drained GOP Voters of Morality

May 14, 2018 Buck Banks

60%

A new Public Policy Polling survey finds 60% of voters think it’s immoral if President Trump had an extramarital affair with Stormy Daniels, as compared to 21% who say it’s not immoral. However, Trump voters are pretty divided on the question: Only 41% think it’s immoral if he had an affair with Daniels to 33% who say it’s not and 26% who are not sure.

CBS News: “You may have noticed, gas prices are on the rise and hitting levels not seen in more than three years. Gas prices nationwide are up a nickel in just the last week. That’s 20 cents in the last month, according to AAA.”

Now that sympathy for John McCain has peaked,
Sarah Sanders has hit a new level of pique.
She’s fed up with the blabbers
And the feckless backstabbers,
After the meeting about the leaked leak was leaked.

No GOPers Step Forward in Defense of McCain

May 14, 2018 Buck Banks

“Why have no Republican U.S. Senators stepped forward and expressed their absolute f**king outrage about these attacks on American hero John McCain by a White House staffer? It is despicable and the cowardice is nauseating.”

— GOP strategist Steve Schmidt, on Twitter.

That’s No Reason to Vote for Haspel

May 14, 2018 Buck Banks

Day: May 14, 2018

Trump Has Drained GOP Voters of Morality

60%

Leaking Leakers Leak Leaks

— Jonathan Swan

Gas Prices Rising

20 cents

CBS News: “You may have noticed, gas prices are on the rise and hitting levels not seen in more than three years. Gas prices nationwide are up a nickel in just the last week. That’s 20 cents in the last month, according to AAA.”

Leaking Leakers Who Leak

No GOPers Step Forward in Defense of McCain

“Why have no Republican U.S. Senators stepped forward and expressed their absolute f**king outrage about these attacks on American hero John McCain by a White House staffer? It is despicable and the cowardice is nauseating.”

— GOP strategist Steve Schmidt, on Twitter.

That’s No Reason to Vote for Haspel

“Nobody wants a weenie in that job.”

— Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), quoted by the New York Times, on why he supports CIA Director nominee Gina Haspel.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

— Rick Wilson

— Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) on the “resign or be fired” ultimatum from the GOP’s Freedom Caucus just 174 days into his tenure as sp[eaker, reported by Punchbowl News.

“Trump’s head slowly dropped, his eyes closed. It jerked back upward. He adjusts himself. Then, his head droops again. He straightens up, leaning back. His head droops for a third time, he shakes his shoulders. Eyes closed still. His head drops. Finally, he pops his eyes open.”

— Law360 reports from the second day of Donald Trump’s “hush money” criminal trial.

— Jonathan Last

“He’s f**king crazy! The press often will ask me if I think Donald Trump is crazy. And I’ll say it this way: I don’t think he’s so crazy that you could put him in a mental institution. But I think if he were in one, he ain’t getting out!”

— New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R), quoted by the Associated Press two years ago. Sununu is now backing Trump for president.

Numerati

$71.1 million to $45.2 million

56% to 37%

270,000

50 of 96

New York Times: “Of the 96 possible jurors brought into the room, more than 50 raised their hands to say they couldn’t be fair. They were immediately excused.”

20%