Thune has been dutifully serving Mitch McConnell for years and has the seniority and credibility demanded by his colleagues.
It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks.
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Disgusting: No matter how you cut it, core cpi inflation is up in October
Seasonally adjusted core cpi inflation is trending higher since July, and ticked up from 3.25% year over year in September to 3.30% in October.
Not seasonally adjusted inflation is up to 3.33% in October from 3.31% in September, also trending higher since July.
And yet Jerome Powell keeps cutting the Fed Funds Rate, 50 basis points in September and another 25 basis points last week. 10Y yield minus 2Y has been showing its displeasure ever since, reversing its healthy trend. So has the 30Y mortgage.
Congress continues to spend like drunken sailors, and Powell has joined them with loose monetary policy now after not tight enough policy EVER.
The whole thing is DISGUSTING. And the election changes NOTHING.
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
He's eating the Congress
He's eating the Congress
He's eating the Senators
He's eating the Representatives
of the People
that work there
Woe Woe Woe Woe
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
The Arizona US Senate race has been called overnight for the Democrats, giving them 47 seats in the new Congress
Kari Lake, the losing Republican, quit her TV anchor job in 2021, which she had from 1999, to run for governor in 2022 and lost to the Democrat, and predictably has lost again in the race for US Senate in 2024.
Over time she has been a Republican, an independent, a Democrat, and a Republican again.
Two House races were called overnight for the GOP, AZ-6 and CA-41, giving Republicans a 219 seat majority in the US House election with Republicans leading in an additional three races
Looks like a 222 majority is within reach, except Trump is already poaching Stefanik and Waltz, bringing the majority down to 220, at least temporarily, which is where it is at right now.
And 222 is still not guaranteed, but like a madman Trump is already counting on it. His big mouth is what usually gets him in trouble. Will his impulsiveness do it this time?
In any event, this is no red wave.
Monday, November 11, 2024
Oh God, please make it stop: Trump to poach his new US Senate majority to fill Secretary of State post with Marco Rubio
These Republican senators don't grow on trees, you know.
It's almost like Trump is a secret Democrat trying to destroy the Republican Party from within.
Trump is insane. He's lost his mind.
I swear Trump has gone completely off his rocker, now plans to poach Mike Waltz from FL-6 for his national security adviser
That would take the theoretical GOP majority back down to 220, where it is right now.
The man is nuts.
In the four days since Nov 7th, Trump's popular vote share has contracted from 50.8% to 50.3%
Update 8:29 PM:
Harris/Walz 48.1% (226) Trump/Vance 50.2% (312)
Undecided House races are proceeding at a glacial pace, but since yesterday three Republicans have each seen their vote shares contract
Ciscomani in AZ-6 from 49.2 to 49.1
Garcia in CA-27 from 49.6 to 49.1
Steel in CA-45 from 51.3 to 51.1
Republicans currently lead in 5 of the 10 undecided races. If they win all those, they'll have 222 in the House.
But of course subtract Stefanik, and you are left with 221 GOP to advance President Trump's agenda in the first 100 days when 218 are needed.
Again, this was not a Republican "sweep", "a great realignment", a MAGA movement revolution, or any of the rubbish we're hearing from the cheering section.
This is just more of the same on the House side, where the GOP majority is 220.
Trump appointment of seasoned former acting ICE director Thomas Homan as Border Czar is in stark contrast to Biden appointment of Harris
This is a serious appointment, unlike Biden's, whose policy was to flood the country with illegals under a novel interpretation of asylum.
In an interview on Fox News Channel's "Sunday Morning Futures," Homan said the military wouldn't be rounding up and arresting immigrants in the country illegally and that ICE would move to implement Trump's plans in a "humane manner."
"It's going to be a well-targeted, planned operation conducted by the men of ICE. The men and women of ICE do this daily. They're good at it," he said. "When we go out there, we're going to know who we're looking for. We most likely know where they're going to be, and it's going to be done in a humane manner." ...
"If you're here illegally, you better be looking over your shoulder."
He also said: "You've got my word. Trump comes back in January, I'll be in his heels coming back, and I will run the biggest deportation operation this country's ever seen."
Reported here by CBS.
By delegating this task to Homan, Trump achieves a measure of freedom to devote himself to advancing his other objectives through the Congress.
The big if in all this is, whether illegal asylees with a piece of paper showing they have a court date may legally remain in the US.
I can well imagine a liberal federal judge intervening to stop deportations of such people, forcing the issue to be litigated. This could tie up deportations for years.
Don't count on this going the way you think it will go because Trump appointed a tough guy.
Idiot Trump immediately creates a vacancy in NY-21 by nominating Stefanik to the UN when he'll have at best a 222 House to begin with
He has learned nothing. Same stupid guy, different term.
Trump confirms NYer Elise Stefanik will be his enforcer at the UN: ‘Strong, tough, and smart’
Sunday, November 10, 2024
In September Nancy Pelosi said we already had the open primary and Kamala won it, but now in November she says we never had it
And on June 30th Pelosi said Joe Biden was still good to go even after the bad debate, but now she says he should have dropped out earlier.
In addition to her many other titles, she is also The Lyin' Queen.
Nancy Pelosi didn't lead the Putsch against Joe Biden, she was just the call center operator lol
Calls one and two came from Jane Fonda and Rob Reiner.
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THE CHUTZPAH OF THE INGRATES!: Kamala Harris blew through $1 billion in 107 days and ended up $20 million in debt, DNC official echoes the new lie from Pelosi, BLAMES JOE BIDEN after THEY pushed him out
Just think what Kamala could have done for the whole country, and how quickly!
And look how Nancy Pelosi's new lyin' narrative (he dropped out too late) becomes the official Democrat take after they pushed him out.
Alex Miller: DNC official calls Harris campaign a ‘$1 billion disaster’ :
Democratic National Committee finance member Lindy Li trashed Vice President Kamala Harris’ failed bid for the White House, calling her loss to President-elect Donald Trump a “$1 billion disaster.”
Ms. Li told “Fox & Friends” on Saturday that she and other Democrats feel that Campaign Chairwoman Jen O’Malley Dillon “misled” them into wasting millions of dollars.
“The truth is, this is just an epic disaster — this is a $1 billion disaster,” Ms. Li said. “They’re $20 million or $18 million in debt. It’s incredible, and I raised millions of that.”
She added, “I have friends I have to be accountable and explain things to because I told them it was a margin-of-error race. I was promised, Jen O’Malley Dillon promised all of us that Harris would win. She even put videos out saying Harris would win. I believed her, my donors believed her, and so they wrote massive checks.”
Mr. Trump’s resounding victory over Ms. Harris has had Democrats searching for what went wrong.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, blamed President Biden for Tuesday’s blowout loss because of his late exit from the race in July.
She argued that if Democrats had an open primary to find a new party nominee, the election outcome might have been different.
Ms. Li made a similar argument, that if Democrats truly viewed Mr. Trump as a threat to democracy and the country, they would have allowed for an open process to find a successor “instead of just coronating somebody.”
Mr. Biden’s decision to endorse Ms. Harris quickly shuttered that possibility, she said.
“I actually think President Biden, the whole endorsing her 30 minutes after he dropped out, I think that was a big ‘F you’ to the party. ‘If you don’t want me, here’s somebody you may not like, deal with it,’” Ms. Li said.
Nancy Pelosi, June 30th, defending President Applesauce-brains, right after Joe's disastrous debate with Trump:
"We know how attuned he is to the issues, we know how informed he is. I debate with him about the issues, not debate, but discuss it with him. He‘s right there."
Nancy Pelosi, September 18th, pushing back on the Kamala coronation:
"We had an open primary and she won it. Nobody else got in the race."
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There were some pretty sharp cookies out there who actually nailed the Electoral College outcome
Here are just two I found:
Saturday, November 9, 2024
Defeated Republican incumbent Marc Molinaro (NY-19) was the second most bipartisan in the current Congress according to the Lugar index lol
He got a well-deserved boot in the ass for that.
Now he can hang the distinction on the wall, right next to his Associates Degree in Humanities and Social Sciences from Dutchess Community College.
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