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86%
A new ABC News-Washington Post poll finds 86% of Americans support a right to residency for undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children, with support crossing the political spectrum. Two-thirds back a deal to enact such legislation in tandem with higher funding for border control.
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20%
A new CBS News poll finds that just 20% of those polled said they approved of the Graham-Cassidy health care bill aimed at repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act signed into law by President Obama. Even more striking: Only 46% of Republicans said they approved of the bill.
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29%
A new CNN poll finds that just 29% of Americans hold a favorable view of the Republican Party. That is down 13 percentage points from March and is the lowest mark for the GOP since CNN began asking the question in 1992.
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6 in 10
A Morning Consult/Politico poll found six in 10 Democrats said their party is “about right” when they were also asked if they thought it was too liberal or conservative. Among Republicans, half said it was “about right.”
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30%
A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds President Trump’s approval rate has sunk to a new low of 36%. For comparison, Hillary Clinton’s approval is at a new low of 30%.
Poetic Justice
Trump rescinds executive orders ’cause Obama done ’em.
He rescinded DACA because it was another Obama one.
But when it came to rescinding DACA,
Trump smeared the dreamers with caca,
By trying to make us believe that he really, truly loved ’em.
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“The Republican Governors Association has quietly launched an online publication that looks like a media outlet and is branded as such on social media. The Free Telegraph blares headlines about the virtues of GOP governors, while framing Democrats negatively. It asks readers to sign up for breaking news alerts. It launched in the summer bearing no acknowledgement that it was a product of an official party committee whose sole purpose is to get more Republicans elected. … Only after the Associated Press inquired about the site last week was a disclosure added to The Free Telegraph’s pages identifying the publication’s partisan source.”
— Associated Press
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“I think there’s going to be a rebellion against everybody, not just leadership. If we get to December and we’ve not repealed Obamacare, don’t build the wall… it’s not going to be pretty.”
— Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), quoted by Axios.
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“Mr. Trump often invites his daughter Ivanka Trump into meetings to signal their conclusion — or to keep his interlocutors off balance. When Ms. Trump entered the office toward the end of the discussion on Wednesday, ostensibly to discuss tax reform, Republicans in the room reacted with astonishment and annoyance. … Mr. McConnell, who is barely on speaking terms with the president, quietly seethed, according to two people familiar with the situation. He breezed past other lawmakers and staff members in purse-lipped silence when he returned to the Capitol.”
— New York Times
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Charlotte mayoral candidate Kimberley Paige Barnette (R) listed her qualifications for public office as “Republican & Smart, White, Traditional.”
— Charlotte Observer
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“To target these young people is wrong — because they have done nothing wrong. It is self-defeating — because they want to start new businesses, staff our labs, serve in our military, and otherwise contribute to the country we love. And it is cruel.”
— Barack Obama, bashing President Trump’s decision to rescind an immigration order shielding some children of undocumented immigrants from deportation, calling the move “cruel” and “self-defeating,” CNN reports.
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Gee, it seems like only seven. But then, for me it is …
I seem to recall the initial reports on the weaponized anthrax back during the G. W. Bush administration being one of the first postings on this site which, at least in my memory would put you beyond 8 years. I guess my memory is suspect. I seem to recall the anthrax possible attack down in Florida that brought you to my attention.
We launched on January 25, 2005, five days after Bush’s second inaugural.
No problem. I guess my memory is off. What an auspicious date, five days after George W. Bush’s 2nd inaugural. I still remember being depressed to no end at that time. I found it hard to believe George W. Bush won, but is was the incessant warmongering and the pushing of terror, terror, terror that let them win the day back then.
Jan. 20, 2005 — a day that will live in infamy.
I want to say you let me on board in March. And Buck, I thought you and I started together.
Trish, you and I started together on Blogger in December. We switched to WordPress, which took a while and and then we had our first posts at the end of January.
Congrats! I’ve been reading here since fall of 2006 or early 2007. Even though I seldom comment.