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Enumerati
101 to 110
Average age of the parents of Korean War veterans, who Trump claimed repeatedly came up to him on the 2016 campaign trail, begging him to bring home their sons’ remains. According to Esquire’s Jack Holmes, “…this is a quintessential Trumpian lie: totally shameless, easily verifiable as false, and rooted in the notion that “many people”—who are never defined further, and who you’ll never be able to find—are telling the president something that he just happens to agree with himself. How many times in this troubled period in our nation’s history have we heard how ‘many people are saying’ something about Donald Trump?”
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Enumerati
1
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) held a town hall meeting yesterday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. “It wasn’t raucous, stormy or packed, as many congressional town halls have been in recent years. It was kind of the opposite, actually. One person showed up. And he was pretty polite.”
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1
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) “told lawmakers that the Senate will recess for one week instead of four to work on nominations and legislation,” the Washington Post reports.
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Enumerati
300
“Border agents and child welfare workers are running out of space to shelter children who have been separated from their parents at the U.S. border as part of the Trump administration’s new ‘zero tolerance’ policy,” NBC News reports. “As of Sunday, nearly 300 of the 550 children currently in custody at U.S. border stations had spent more than 72 hours there, the time limit for immigrants of any age to be held in the government’s temporary facilities. Almost half of those 300 children are younger than 12.”
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Enumerati
$14.9 million
“The 16-candidate free-for-all to replace Congress’ wealthiest member, retiring Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), has become the most expensive House of Representatives race in the nation, with a combined $14.9 million spent by candidates and outside groups,” the Orange County Register reports.
Poetic Justice
Signing them feels nice, like a stroll in the Rose Garden.
And it’s fun to dangle one in front of Manafort, Flynn and Cohen.
Giving one to Jack Johnson felt good,
And should Martha get one? She should!
From his ecstatic expression, Donald Trump might have a pardon hardon.
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Verbatim
“He is about as swampy as you get here in Washington, D.C., and if the president wants to drain the swamp, he needs to take a look at his own cabinet.”
— Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), blasting allegations of ethical misconduct by EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, Bloomberg reports. “Pruitt’s tenure at the Environmental Protection Agency is under intensifying scrutiny, with at least 10 federal investigations probing his $50-per-night rental of a bedroom in a Capitol Hill condominium from a lobbyist, his frequent taxpayer-funded travel and his spending decisions.”
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“You should ask our colleagues in the United States. In my opinion, this is the result of the ongoing acute political struggle in the United States. Indeed, Donald Trump and I have, firstly, met more than once at various international venues and secondly, we regularly talk over the phone.”
— Russian President Vladimir Putin, quoted by Axios, on why there hasn’t been a U.S.-Russian summit meeting yet.
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“Tell everybody, you can’t win this one. This one lifts me.”
— Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said that President Trump told him that criticism of NFL players who protest during the national anthem is “a very winning, strong issue for me,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
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“This is dumb. Europe, Canada, and Mexico are not China, and you don’t treat allies the same way you treat opponents. We’ve been down this road before—blanket protectionism is a big part of why America had a Great Depression. ‘Make America Great Again’ shouldn’t mean ‘Make America 1929 Again.’”
— Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE), quoted by the Washington Post, on President Trump’s decision to impose steel and aluminum tariffs.
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“There is no Republican Party. There’s a Trump party. The Republican party is taking a nap somewhere.”
— Former Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), quoted by WDIV-TV.
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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.