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GOP Already Losing the ARP Argument

March 18, 2021March 18, 2021 Buck Banks

“It may be an overstated political cliché that if you’re explaining, you’re losing. But you’re almost certainly losing if you’re explaining, ahead of time, why the economic boom you’re expecting on your opponent’s watch shouldn’t be attributed to your opponent.”

$242 Billion in Stimulus Chacks Has Been Sent So Far

March 18, 2021 Buck Banks

$242 billion

CNBC: “The U.S. has thus far issued 90 million stimulus checks worth a collective $242 billion as part of President Joe Biden’s landmark $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan.”

They strove hard in House and Senate to defeat it,
But Republican hypocrisy has long been so pathetic.
They voted — to a man —
Against the American Recovery Plan,
And now they’re trying to shamelessly take credit.

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GOP Already Losing the ARP Argument

“It may be an overstated political cliché that if you’re explaining, you’re losing. But you’re almost certainly losing if you’re explaining, ahead of time, why the economic boom you’re expecting on your opponent’s watch shouldn’t be attributed to your opponent.”

— Michael Grunwald

$242 Billion in Stimulus Chacks Has Been Sent So Far

$242 billion

CNBC: “The U.S. has thus far issued 90 million stimulus checks worth a collective $242 billion as part of President Joe Biden’s landmark $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan.”

Where Credit Ain’t Due

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“I will if he does. That’s a trade-off I’d do.”

— George Clooney, on Jimmy Kimmel Live, responding to Donald Trump’s call for him “to get out of politics.”

– Donald Trump feeble-mindedly mistaking Bagram, an airfield in Afghanistan, with ANWR, a wildlife refuge in Alaska.

“You look at Haiti, you look at the demographic makeup, you look at the average I.Q. — if you import the third world into your country, you’re going to become the third world. That’s just basic. It’s not racist. It’s just fact.”

— “Donald Trump Jr. suggested on Thursday that Haitian immigrants were less intelligent than people from other countries, and claimed that there was demographic evidence to back this up. He provided none,” the New York Times reported.

“Well, I’ve given up. Every time I come on I want to really talk to you about substantive issues. I don’t want to talk to you about this clown sh*t.”

— James Carville, when asked on a podcast about Laura Loomer.

“I observed him to be a man who is not mentally fit for the job … He’s a narcissist, and he’s a pathological liar.”

— Former Rep. Jim Greenwood’s (R-PA), on MSNBC, explaining why he’s voting for Kamala Harris over Donald Trump.

Numerati

48 out of 51

A recent study showed that for healthcare coverage, access and affordability for women, Florida ranks 48 out of 51 states including Washington, D.C. For prenatal care, the state comes in dead last – 51 out of 51, WUSF reports.

47%

52% to 46%

A new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump among likely voters nationwide, 52% to 46%. It’s the same margin as before the debate which voters say Harris won by 58% to 36%.

50% to 46%

A new Data for Progress survey finds Kamala Harris now leading Donald Trump by four points nationally, 50% to 46%.

$47 million