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Feckless and Un-Elected

March 28, 2017 Buck Banks

To us, he seems like a bit of a bounder,
Though to his dad-in-law he’s a top advisor.
He’ll bring peace to the Middle East!
And he’ll set Russian banks unleashed!
The trouble is, nobody voted for Jared Kushner.

Trump Wants $1 Billion for 62 Miles of Border Wall

March 28, 2017 Buck Banks

$1 billion

“The Trump administration wants the first $1 billion of border wall funding to cover 62 miles — including replacing some existing fencing along the southern border,” CNN reports. That comes out to $16.13 million per mile or $32.26 billion to fence the entire 2,000-mile border.

Crist Can Muster No Sympathy for GOP

March 28, 2017 Buck Banks

“I almost feel sorry for them. But I don’t.”

— Rep. Charlie Crist (D-FL), quoted by Roll Call, on the challenges Republicans faced on health care.

Trump’s Approval Rating Hits Another New Low

March 28, 2017 Buck Banks

36% to 57%

The latest Gallup daily tracking poll shows President Trump’s approval rate crashing to 36% to 57%. “Trump’s current 36% is two percentage points below Barack Obama’s low point of 38%, recorded in 2011 and 2014. Trump has also edged below Bill Clinton’s all-time low of 37%, recorded in the summer of 1993, his first year in office, as well as Gerald Ford’s 37% low point in January and March 1975. John F. Kennedy’s lowest approval rating was 56%; Dwight Eisenhower’s was 48%.”

‘Bathroom Bill’ to Cost N.C. $4 Billion

March 27, 2017 Buck Banks

$4 billion

“Despite Republican assurances that North Carolina’s ‘bathroom bill’ isn’t hurting the economy, the law limiting LGBT protections will cost the state more than $3.76 billion in lost business over a dozen years,” according to an Associated Press analysis.

Government Shutdown Looms Large

March 27, 2017 Buck Banks

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Playbook: “The government is slated to shut down at the end of April. The House — where funding the government will be most difficult — is only in session for 12 more days between now and then. (The House is out from April 7 through April 25.)”

There’s Unity in Hate

March 27, 2017May 2, 2017 Buck Banks

The Trumpcare debacle was a meltdown melodrama,
With the Freedom Caucus dealing Trump an ego-trauma.
Can those Republicans
Ever unify again?
Not without something to hate, like, say, an Obama.

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

Month: March 2017

Feckless and Un-Elected

Trump Wants $1 Billion for 62 Miles of Border Wall

$1 billion

“The Trump administration wants the first $1 billion of border wall funding to cover 62 miles — including replacing some existing fencing along the southern border,” CNN reports. That comes out to $16.13 million per mile or $32.26 billion to fence the entire 2,000-mile border.

Crist Can Muster No Sympathy for GOP

“I almost feel sorry for them. But I don’t.”

— Rep. Charlie Crist (D-FL), quoted by Roll Call, on the challenges Republicans faced on health care.

Trump’s Approval Rating Hits Another New Low

36% to 57%

‘Bathroom Bill’ to Cost N.C. $4 Billion

$4 billion

“Despite Republican assurances that North Carolina’s ‘bathroom bill’ isn’t hurting the economy, the law limiting LGBT protections will cost the state more than $3.76 billion in lost business over a dozen years,” according to an Associated Press analysis.

Government Shutdown Looms Large

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Playbook: “The government is slated to shut down at the end of April. The House — where funding the government will be most difficult — is only in session for 12 more days between now and then. (The House is out from April 7 through April 25.)”

There’s Unity in Hate

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.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer.”

— Vice President JD Vance, on Fox News.

“Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day. And the Democratic Party brand right now is so bullshit.”

— Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by The Atlantic, speaking to college students.

“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.

Numerati

+175,000

“The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President Donald Trump’s administration so far,” Fox News reports.

$4,600

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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%