Current era GDP growth is underperforming Reagan era growth by 42%

Current era growth of GDP is averaging 4.3% vs. 7.4% during the Reagan era.

That was a boom. This is not.

Sorry, but even by recent standards 2017 was not a booming economy

If essential federal government employees will continue working in a shutdown, haven't we identified who ought to be eliminated?

The non-essential federal employees, who numbered about 850,000 in 2013.

But that would make too much sense for this farce in which we star.

We have the government we deserve.

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan says a government shutdown would be wisky, weckless and wong

Of course, when The State is all, and War is the Health of the State, it would be.

Quoted here:

“Sen. Schumer, do not shut down the federal government," Ryan told reporters after the House vote. “It is risky, it is reckless and it is wrong.” Ryan added: “The only people standing in the way of keeping the government open are Senate Democrats. Whether there is a government shutdown or not is entirely up to them.” In order to win Thursday's vote, Ryan struck a deal with Freedom Caucus conservatives shortly before a scheduled floor vote on a spending provision. The agreement, which promised the group a separate vote on military funding, is expected to yield enough votes to secure passage of the spending bill in the House.

Looks like Oprah has passed her sell-by date

It turns out Jeff Flake, easily melted by Donald Trump, really was born in Snowflake, Arizona

Jeff Flake's "free press" hardly covered Hillary's health problems but is obsessed with finding something wrong with Trump's

Laugh of the Day: Trump's new easy peasy weight loss plan

At least now we know that Senator Jeff Flake believes everything he reads in the newspaper

Speech here.

"Of course, a major difference between politicians and the free press is that the press usually corrects itself when it gets something wrong. Politicians don't."

Well har-dee har har har at the last person alive to believe in the free press. Check that. John Kasich was pretty darn moved to receive the endorsement of The New York Times. But, come to think of it, Kasich is another failed politician just like Flake. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Meanwhile The New York Post is still just a buck. Get 'em while they're hot.

Life-altering news from CBS just now: DHS chief Kirstjen Nielsen didn't hear Trump say "shit-hole"

Video here.

You may now go back to your normal activities.

The world's literal breeding ground of insanity is mostly Muslim

Laugh of the Day: Ann Coulter opens Shit-hole Air, one free one way ticket back to the shit-hole of your choice

High-tech Norwegian toilet vs. High Haitian toilet: Any questions?

This one burns it up.

This one should just be burned.

Laugh of the Day: Nitwit cycler surveying the world's literal shit-holes by bike laments "open deification" when she means "defecation"

She botches "defecation" not once ...

I know that's how I like my gods, openly deified. :/

Can't say much for the rest of her English either, but if you need a writer, she wants you to know she's available! Yikes. All that fresh air isn't doing much for her self-awareness now is it? At least she acknowledges the clear superiority of Western toilets.

Here.

... but twice!

Did you know food stamp recipients soared 3,639,173 in October 2017?

An increase of nearly 8.7% from September 2017, the month prior.

We now have 45.6 million on food stamps when a year ago October it was only 43.4 million.

The Florida data is up 2.58 million from September to October due to Hurricane Maria, and Texas is up 1.3 million due to Hurricane Harvey. 

Trump has already caved on The Wall in the "negotiations", settling for 700 miles instead of 2,000

What a loser.

The Washington Times reports here:

Mr. Trump, meanwhile, is seeking a much less dramatic wall than the “sea-to-sea” version he touted during the 2016, campaign, presenting Congress with a scaled-back version that would cover 700 miles and cost $18 billion over a decade — though the president said he figures it can be built much faster and cheaper. ... Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer this week also declined to draw red lines on the wall, saying he saw progress in Mr. Trump no longer seeking a 2,000-mile-long barrier. ... A proposal from the Homeland Security Department, submitted to Congress last week, called for $18 billion in fencing and another $1 billion in new roads to patrol the fencing. The fencing would involve upgrading existing barriers and adding new ones, extending the current 654 miles of barriers to about 970 miles, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Anita Kumar for The News & Observer never once mentions DACA is illegal while bashing Stephen Miller

Open borders Republicans along with Democrats like Dick Durbin are trying to make Stephen Miller the problem when Obama's illegal executive order on immigration is the real offense against the rule of law. Meanwhile feckless members of Congress from both parties would be delighted to have President Trump take all the political heat for a deal SO THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO.

Anita Kumar is their useful idiot Swamp Thing in the press, here.

Kumar is a former WaPo reporter.

Ann Coulter skewers Donald Trump's utter lack of seriousness

Rand Paul doesn't have much of a memory, or imagination

NeverTrump is so yesterday, now it's . . .

FormerTrump.