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Republicans have four convicted criminals running for Congress, the HuffPost reports. They are: Joe Arpaio, Don Blankenship, Michael Grimm and Greg Gianforte. “Three of these men — Arpaio, Blankenship, and Grimm — have suggested that their convictions show they were persecuted by the Obama administration for their political beliefs. The actual evidence suggests otherwise.”

Fox Anchor Says Higher Minimum Wage Will Make Him Tip Less

January 11, 2018 Buck Banks

“If I walk into a restaurant and I know the waiter or waitress is making $15 an hour, way more than they used to make the previous year, I am going to say, ‘wait a minute am I going to give you 20%, 15% or whatever?’”

— Fox Business anchor Stuart Varney telling viewers that he isn’t convinced that restaurant workers making a higher $15 minimum wage still deserve the standard 15% to 20% tip for their services.

Most Think Trump Is Not Fit to Be President

January 11, 2018 Buck Banks

53% to 44%

A new Quinnipiac poll finds that American voters say President Trump is intelligent by a 53% to 44% margin, but they also say 69% to 28% that he is not level-headed and by 57% to 40% that he is not fit to serve as president. Grading President Trump’s first year in office, 39% of voters give him an “F,” while 17% give him a “D.” Trump’s job approval is a dismal 36% to 59%.

— President Trump, quoted by Axios, boasting about his handling of yesterday’s bipartisan meeting on immigration.

Trump Continues Secretive Real Estate Deals

January 11, 2018 Buck Banks

$35 million

“President Trump’s companies sold more than $35 million in real estate in 2017, mostly to secretive shell companies that obscure buyers’ identities, continuing a dramatic shift in his customers’ behavior that began during the election,” a USA Today review found.

Trump Lies Almost Six Times a Day

January 11, 2018 Buck Banks

2,001

Washington Post: “With just 10 days before he finishes his first year as president, Trump has made 2,001 false or misleading claims in 355 days, according to our database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president. That’s an average of more than 5.6 claims a day.”

Steve Bannon’s disposition is not what we’d call sunny,
Though some of his one-liners were pretty funny.
But his Breitbart worth began to pale,
When measured upon a scale
Against big bags of Mrs. Rebekah Mercer’s money.

More Americans Identify as Independents

January 8, 2018 Buck Banks

42%

Gallup: “Last year, 42% of Americans, on average, identified as political independents, erasing the decline to 39% seen in the 2016 presidential election year. Independent identification is just one percentage point below the high of 43% in 2014. Twenty-nine percent of Americans identify themselves as Democrats and 27% as Republicans.”

Making Obama Great Again

January 8, 2018 Buck Banks

“One American politician is currently dominating the cultural landscape, from social media to late-night television. His poll numbers look great, his Twitter posts are often among the most read in the world, and with every utterance, his impassioned base of supporters reacts with a fervor more typical for celebrities than former civil servants. … Meet Barack Obama. … The former president left office last January with favorable approval ratings, but historians, former staffers, and political observers now say his societal standing has reached a new echelon — and it’s partly due to his successor.”

Month: January 2018

Sen. Durbin Confirms Donald Called Haiti, African Nations and El Salvador ‘Shithole Countries’

Four GOP Candidates Are Convicted Criminals

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Fox Anchor Says Higher Minimum Wage Will Make Him Tip Less

“If I walk into a restaurant and I know the waiter or waitress is making $15 an hour, way more than they used to make the previous year, I am going to say, ‘wait a minute am I going to give you 20%, 15% or whatever?’”

— Fox Business anchor Stuart Varney telling viewers that he isn’t convinced that restaurant workers making a higher $15 minimum wage still deserve the standard 15% to 20% tip for their services.

Most Think Trump Is Not Fit to Be President

53% to 44%

Trump Rates Own ‘Performance’

“My performance — some people called it my performance, I consider it work — got great reviews by everybody except two networks… Some said it was one of the greatest meetings they’ve ever seen.”

— President Trump, quoted by Axios, boasting about his handling of yesterday’s bipartisan meeting on immigration.

Trump Continues Secretive Real Estate Deals

$35 million

“President Trump’s companies sold more than $35 million in real estate in 2017, mostly to secretive shell companies that obscure buyers’ identities, continuing a dramatic shift in his customers’ behavior that began during the election,” a USA Today review found.

Trump Lies Almost Six Times a Day

2,001

Bannon Wasn’t Worth It

More Americans Identify as Independents

42%

Making Obama Great Again

— Boston Globe

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%).”