August 28, 2014

Majority of Blacks Say Police Forces Don’t Hold Officers Accountable

August 28, 2014 Buck Banks

70%

Of blacks say police departments around the country do a poor job in holding officers accountable for misconduct; an identical percentage says they do a poor job of treating racial and ethnic groups equally. And 57% of African Americans think police departments do a poor job of using the right amount of force, according to Pew Research.

King Threatens Government Shutdown Over Immigration

August 28, 2014 Buck Banks

If the president wields his pen and commits that unconstitutional act to legalize millions, I think that becomes something that is nearly political nuclear… I think the public would be mobilized and galvanized and that changes the dynamic of any continuing resolution and how we might deal with that.

— Rep. Steve King (R-IA), asserting that “the threat of another government shutdown could be Republicans’ leverage to pass border security and immigration legislation this fall,” the Des Moines Register reports.

McConnell Says Obama Needs the Senate

August 28, 2014 Buck Banks

There’s only one thing Barack Obama needs to keep his grip on power. He needs the U.S. Senate!

— Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), quoted by the New York Times Magazine.

Deficit Continues to Drop But Low Corporate Tax Rates Threaten Outlook

August 28, 2014August 29, 2014 Jon Ponder

Los Angeles Times:

The federal deficit continues to decline thanks to budget cuts and slower growth in Medicare costs, but lower than expected corporate tax revenues dimmed some of the improved outlook, according to a report Wednesday from the Congressional Budget Office…

Declining corporate tax revenues are largely to blame for a $26 billion dip in overall revenue projections from the non-partisan budget office’s April forecast, and the budget director called the change not particularly large, but “notable.”

Day: August 28, 2014

Majority of Blacks Say Police Forces Don’t Hold Officers Accountable

70%

King Threatens Government Shutdown Over Immigration

— Rep. Steve King (R-IA), asserting that “the threat of another government shutdown could be Republicans’ leverage to pass border security and immigration legislation this fall,” the Des Moines Register reports.

McConnell Says Obama Needs the Senate

There’s only one thing Barack Obama needs to keep his grip on power. He needs the U.S. Senate!

— Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), quoted by the New York Times Magazine.

Deficit Continues to Drop But Low Corporate Tax Rates Threaten Outlook

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“One woman at a rally in New Jersey told me last week that she was ‘nauseously optimistic.’ That may capture a lot of people’s last-minute jitters.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by Axios, on what Democrats feel ahead of the midterm elections.

“I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace’s bathroom.”

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by The Wrap.

“Boy, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. It feels like a real desperation play to me, because it has got zero basis in the law.”

— Republican election law expert Ben Ginsberg, quoted by Politico, on the Trump administration’s effort to invalidate Alaska’s election results.

Numerati

3,824

$1.4 billion

-35 points

31%

63% to 38%

KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”