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$3.6 billion
An analysis by the Associated Press shows the nation’s six big Wall Street banks saved at least $3.59 billion in taxes last quarter, thanks to the recently enacted Trump tax law.
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Enumerati
$45,000
“Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt, under fire from lawmakers for travel and security expenses, spent about $45,000 in government money to fly five people to Australia to prepare for a planned trip that was later canceled,” Reuters reports. “Two of his aides and three security agents flew to Australia last August on business-class tickets costing roughly $9,000 each to set up meetings for the EPA administrator.”
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$22.2 million
Politico reports the Senate Majority PAC raised $22.2 million in the first quarter of 2018, as compared to $13.9 million for the GOP’s Senate Leadership Fund and the constellation of affiliated groups. “This is an extraordinarily strong haul for the outside group.”
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Enumerati
43
“A whopping 43 House Republicans raised less money than Democratic challengers in the first three months of 2018 — nearly the same number of stragglers the GOP had at the end of last year,” Politico reports. “An overlapping group of 16 Republican incumbents already have less cash on hand than Democratic challengers, up from the end of 2017, despite hopes that tax reform would open more donor wallets.”
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75% to 22%
A new PRRI survey finds President Trump’s favorability at an all-time high with white evangelical Christians, 75% to 22%. Also interesting is that white evangelicals prefer Trump as 2020 Republican nominee, 58% to 32%.
Poetic Justice
We know Donald Trump’s all bluster and swagger,
And his administration is just an unnatural disaster.
But now he wants back in to the TPP
And to roll back the GOP’s spending spree,
At this rate his lasting legacy will be as The Great Reneger.
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Verbatim
“He’s not suited to stand up to the rigors of jail life… Michael doesn’t see himself walking down Broadway while people are clamoring, ‘you’re going to be my wife.’”
— Longtime Trump legal adviser Jay Goldberg, telling CNN that he’s thinks Michael Cohen will turn on President Trump and cooperate with federal prosecutors because he’s worried about getting raped in prison.
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“The Republican Party has left me and many others. I just think they’ve lost their way and I can’t be associated with it.”
— James Comey, telling ABC News that he no longer considers himself a Republican.
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“I don’t mean to be coy but I think I can get into a difficult, difficult area when I start commenting on Supreme Court decisions — which are correctly decided and which I may disagree with.”
— Wendy Vitter, one of President Trump’s judicial nominees, refusing to say whether the landmark civil rights case Brown v. the Board of Education was correctly decided, CNN reports. The seminal opinion held that state laws requiring separate but equal schools violated the Constitution.
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Verbatim
“I just want my stuff back.”
— Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, quoted by the Daily Beast, after FBI agents raided his home and office.
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“It’s like Forrest Gump won the presidency, but an evil, really f**king stupid Forrest Gump.”
— An unnamed Republican congressman, who publicly supports President Trump, in an interview with conservative writer Erick Erickson.
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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.