Year: 2017
From Detente to …
Before the election, Trump-Russia relations were all a-glow.
Trumpians met with Russians as if no one would ever know.
But in light of the revelations
And ongoing investigations,
Donald characterizes Russkie relations as at an “all-time low.”
Congressman Claims to Pay Own Congressional Salary
“You say you pay for me to do this? That’s bullcrap. I pay for myself. I paid enough taxes before I got here and continue to through my company to pay my own salary.”
— Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), quoted by The Hill, telling constituents at a town hall meeting that they don’t pay his salary.
U.S. Airstrike Kills 18 Syrian Allies
18
“An airstrike by the American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State killed 18 Syrian fighters allied with the United States,” the New York Times reports. “The strike, on Tuesday in Tabqah, Syria, was the third time in a month that American-led airstrikes may have killed civilians or allies, and it comes even as the Pentagon is investigating two previous airstrikes that killed or wounded scores of civilians in a mosque complex in Syria and in a building in the west of Mosul, Iraq.”
Ossoff Still Under 50%
39%
A new RRH poll in Georgia’s 6th congressional district finds Jon Ossoff (D) in the lead in the special election with 39%, followed by Karen Handel (R) at 15%, Bob Gray (R) at 12%, Dan Moody (R) at 11%, and Judson Hill (R) at 10%. If no candidate gets 50%, there will be a runoff between the top two finishers.
Georgia Race Ad Buy Over $14 Million
$14 million
Atlanta Journal Constitution: “Candidates and outside groups have spent nearly $14 million on an unending ad blitz in the race to replace Rep. Tom Price’s suburban Atlanta seat, and that tally that will surely grow in the final days before Tuesday’s nationally-watched vote. … An analysis of the advertising obtained by the AJC shows the biggest spender by far is Democrat Jon Ossoff, a former Congressional aide who is eyeing a historic upset in next week’s vote.”
Spicer’s Hitler Misstep
For Sean Spicer, every day on the job must be a trial —
We never know where he’s going to land on the incompetence/malevolence dial.
But with his demented comparison of Assad and Hitler
He really dug deep into the shitter.
Now, to his litany of sins and lies he can add Holocaust denial.
TrumpSpeak: Concentration Camps Are Now ‘Holocaust Centers’
White House press secretary Sean Spicer attempted to clean up his instantly controversial claim that Adolf Hitler “didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons” Tuesday by conceding that Hitler had brought chemical agents into the “Holocaust center.”
“I think when you come to sarin gas, there was no, he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that Ashad [sic] is doing … there was not in the — he brought them into the Holocaust center, I understand that, but I’m saying in that the way that Assad used them, where he went into towns, dropped them down, to innocent, into the middle of towns, it was brought, the use of it,” Spicer said. “I appreciate the clarification, that was not the intent.”
Protestors Deliver a Message to U.S. Rep Joe “You Lie” Wilson
You remember Joe Wilson. He’s the congressman from South Carolina’s 2nd District (Columbia) who made himself famous for his unprecedented rudeness when you screamed, “You lie” at Pres. Obama during a 2009 address to Congress.
This time it was Wilson being called a liar, during a town hall meeting with constituents in Graniteville, SC.
Wilson, who voted against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act in 2013, was telling the crowd about how he tried to ensure that, “all efforts to make sure that violence against women is fully enforced” when those in attendance begged to differ.
If you’ve forgotten Wilson’s outburst at Obama, here’s a reminder.
