April 4, 2017 - Pensito

Cummings: Bannon Is a White Supremicist

April 4, 2017 Buck Banks

“In a way he would be pleased to have seen the first African-American elected president, to have seen many doors opened for people like me and others who now have opportunities that would not have had them back then. But at the same time, when we see a guy like Bannon, who is, as far as I’m concerned, a white supremacist-type person, sitting in the White House — sitting in the White House — and I’m paying his salary, I think he would be very disappointed.”

— Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), who said this morning that Martin Luther King, Jr. “would be very disappointed” by the political realities of 2017 and especially by the presence of Steve Bannon — who he described as a “white supremacist-type” — in the White House, Politico reports.

Nunes Accidentally Tells the Truth

April 4, 2017 Buck Banks

There’s a story… that the Trump administration asked me not to invite Sally Yates and not have a hearing, which is 100% accurate, I mean inaccurate.”

— House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA), in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.

It’s Pay It Forward Time for Ryan — with Campaign Cash

April 4, 2017 Buck Banks

$1.2 million

Speaker Paul Ryan “is distributing $1.2 million from his personal political accounts to roughly half the House Republican Conference today,” according to Playbook.

Senate Democrats Reach Filibuster Threshold

April 4, 2017 Buck Banks

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Senate Democrats “appeared to secure the votes necessary to filibuster the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch, sending the body hurtling toward a bitter partisan confrontation later this week,” the New York Times reports.

A Sissy for Sissi

April 4, 2017May 2, 2017 Buck Banks

Trump always thought that Obama was a wussy,
That a man’s man just reaches out for some pussy.
But in the presence of REAL power,
Trump turns into an oozy fawner,
Like when he meets a REAL dictator like Egypt’s el-Sissi.

Day: April 4, 2017

Cummings: Bannon Is a White Supremicist

— Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), who said this morning that Martin Luther King, Jr. “would be very disappointed” by the political realities of 2017 and especially by the presence of Steve Bannon — who he described as a “white supremacist-type” — in the White House, Politico reports.

Nunes Accidentally Tells the Truth

There’s a story… that the Trump administration asked me not to invite Sally Yates and not have a hearing, which is 100% accurate, I mean inaccurate.”

— House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA), in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.

It’s Pay It Forward Time for Ryan — with Campaign Cash

$1.2 million

Speaker Paul Ryan “is distributing $1.2 million from his personal political accounts to roughly half the House Republican Conference today,” according to Playbook.

Senate Democrats Reach Filibuster Threshold

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Senate Democrats “appeared to secure the votes necessary to filibuster the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch, sending the body hurtling toward a bitter partisan confrontation later this week,” the New York Times reports.

A Sissy for Sissi

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%