Month: September 2019
Half Say They’ll Vote Against Trump
52%
A new Rasmussen poll finds 52% of voters are likely to vote against President Trump next year, and most of them say Trump, not the Democratic candidate, is the likeliest reason why. While 75% of Republicans are likely to vote for Trump, 21% of the voters in his own party say they are more likely to vote against him next year.
A Sap’s Map Flap
Trump came off like a doddering old sap
When he created his Hurricane Dorian flap.
Trump used a Sharpie
To include Alabammy
On his very special National Weather Service map.
Pelosi Accuses Pence of ‘Lining Trump’s Pockets’
“Vice President Pence promised that their Administration would defend the Constitution and stand by a ‘strict constructionist’ interpretation of the Constitution. Instead the Trump-Pence Administration is ignoring the text itself and selling out the Constitution to line Trump’s pockets.”
— Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), accusing Vice President Pence of “selling out the Constitution” to financially benefit President Trump following the vice president’s stay at one of Trump’s properties in Ireland, The Hill reports.
Buttigieg Offers Pity for Trump’s Altered Hurricane Map
“I feel sorry for the President. It makes you feel a kind of pity for everybody involved… No matter how you cut it, this is an unbelievably sad state of affairs.”
— Pete Buttigieg, in a CNN interview, on President Trump showing an altered Hurricane Dorian trajectory map.
King Claims He Drank from border Facility Toilet
“I actually went into that cell where it was reported that they were advised they had to drink out of the toilet. I took a drink out of there. And actually, pretty good!”
— Rep. Steve King (R-IA) told constituents at a town hall in Iowa that he drank out of a toilet at a migrant detention facility “to prove that criticisms of the conditions in those facilities are unfounded,” the Daily Beast reports.
Biden, Sanders Lead Trump in Wisconsin
51% to 42%
A new Marquette Law poll in Wisconsin finds Joe Biden leading President Trump in a general election match up by nine points, 51% to 42%. Bernie Sanders leads Trump by four points, 48% to 44%. Elizabeth Warren is tied with Trump at 45% and Kamala Harris is also tied at 44%.
They Who Didn’t Qualify for the Debate
“Not many people know who they are. Fewer come to their events. No reporters cover them regularly… Locked out of the September debate, and with little evidence that they will qualify for the debates in October and beyond, the low-pollers find themselves campaigning like it’s 1992 or 2004.”
— New York Times
Williamson Suggests the Power of Mind could Steer Hurricane Dorian
“The Bahamas, Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas … may all be in our prayers now. Millions of us seeing Dorian turn away from land is not a wacky idea; it is a creative use of the power of the mind. Two minutes of prayer, visualization, meditation for those in the way of the storm.”
— A tweet, since deleted, by Democratic presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson, reported by the Washington Post.
One Dim Bulb
Donald Trump never met an environmental regulation he likes.
He’s rolled back emissions and oil regs without even a fight.
Ever the environmentalist,
He’s added to his dereg list —
Now Trump wants to get rid of energy-saving lights!
