Talk About Tennis 2.0

Seems everyone has some, except me.

Classified Documents Found at Pence’s Home in Indiana
The documents were “inadvertently boxed and transported” to the former vice president’s home at the end of the Trump administration, Mr. Pence’s representative wrote in a letter to the National Archives.
Aides to former Vice President Mike Pence found a “small number of documents” with classified markings at his home in Indiana during a search last week, according to an adviser to Mr. Pence.

The documents were “inadvertently boxed and transported” to Mr. Pence’s home at the end of President Donald J. Trump’s administration, Greg Jacob, Mr. Pence’s representative for dealing with records related to the presidency, wrote in a letter to the National Archives.
The letter, dated Jan. 18, said that the former vice president was unaware of the existence of the documents and reiterated that he took seriously the handling of classified materials and wanted to help.

Mr. Jacob wrote that Mr. Pence relied on an outside lawyer after classified documents were found in recent days at the residence and former private office of President Biden. A person familiar with the search identified that lawyer as Matthew E. Morgan, who has a long history with the Pences and who worked as a lawyer on the 2020 re-election campaign. Mr. Jacob also said the lawyer could not specify anything more about the documents because the lawyer had stopped looking once it was clear the documents had classified markings.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/24/us/p ... ments.html

Even though Tiny is involved, by now you have to wonder about the system. As you say, seems like everybody that was in office takes classified documents with them. So, this storage system seems to be very deficient.

And all of the folks who have these documents are cooperating and turning them over. The one glaring exception has done all he could to try and hold on to them and that makes his having them suspicious.

Didn't he tell the folks who took him hostage he was for this?

^That tax scheme is beyond idiotic. Besides groceries, I can get a fair amount of items in NYC tax free just by asking, "Cash, no tax?". I could live almost tax free if I played my cards right, and I wouldn't be alone. The city would fall apart, but hey, low taxes!!!

There is a reason it is not implemented in any civilized country in the world, and I doubt that in any 3rd world country either.
These people have never taken one course in economics, and they go by the GOP stupid mantra that "the best government is the smallest government". By that metric, the best government in the world is probably Somalia or Sudan.
So they have this idea that getting rid of Government Agencies is "good". The idiocy is supreme.

Today in "George Santos"

Devil's advocate.
How could you blackmail this man? He could not care less if you present ANYTHING about him. He is bullet proof to that option.
In the words of Calvin (and Hobbes): if it is found he was dating a three headed, Elvis alien clone, so what?

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 25, 2023 10:18 pm Devil's advocate.
How could you blackmail this man? He could not care less if you present ANYTHING about him. He is bullet proof to that option.
In the words of Calvin (and Hobbes): if it is found he was dating a three headed, Elvis alien clone, so what?

Seems like a tab of ecstasy and a sex club would work. No matter what, same sex sex between men will always repulse republicans.

CNN Poll: Nearly three-quarters of Americans think House GOP leaders haven’t paid enough attention to most important problems
By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN
Updated 12:57 PM EST, Thu January 26, 2023

Fewer than one-third of Americans believe that House GOP leaders are prioritizing the country’s most important issues, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS. Neither party’s congressional leadership earns majority approval, and Republicans are particularly likely to express discontent with their own party leadership.

Just 27% of US adults say they think Republican leaders in the House have had the right priorities so far, while 73% say they haven’t paid enough attention to the country’s most important problems. A 59% majority disapprove of the way Democratic leaders in Congress are handling their jobs overall, while a broader 67% disapprove of Republican leaders in Congress.

The GOP’s ratings are weighed down by relatively high dissatisfaction within their own party: 42% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents disapprove of their party’s congressional leaders, compared with the 22% of Democrats and Democratic leaners who disapprove of their party’s congressional leadership.

Nearly half of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, 46%, also say their party’s House leadership hasn’t displayed the right priorities. By contrast, in CNN’s October polling, only 34% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents said that President Joe Biden had the wrong priorities, with 65% of the public overall in that survey viewing Biden as failing to address the nation’s problems.

A similar dynamic plays out in the views of individual party leaders, with Democratic-aligned Americans’ view of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (42% favorable, 6% unfavorable) more positive than Republican-aligned Americans’ opinion of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (35% favorable, 18% unfavorable).

Americans overall hold a negative view of McCarthy (19% favorable, 38% unfavorable) and are split in their views of Jeffries (21% favorable, 22% unfavorable), although many have yet to form opinions: 43% express no opinion toward McCarthy, and 57% have no impression of Jeffries. Both men’s favorability ratings now remain almost identical to where they stood in CNN’s December polling, prior to McCarthy’s prolonged, public battle to secure the speakership earlier this month.

Most of the public, 60%, expects congressional Republicans to have more influence than Biden over the direction the nation takes in the next two years. That’s similar to the 56% of Americans in January 2011 who anticipated that Republicans’ takeover of the House would give the GOP more sway than then-President Barack Obama, although expectations for Obama’s influence rose later in the year. In the latest poll, Republicans and Republican leaners, despite their relative unhappiness with their leaders, see their party as likelier to have the louder voice: About three-quarters (72%) expect the GOP to wield more influence than Biden, while only about half of Democrats and Democratic leaners (51%) see Biden as likely to drive the national direction over the next two years.

Asked to name the most important issue facing the country, nearly half (48%) of Americans cite economic issues, particularly related to the effects of inflation on housing, food and gas prices. Other top concerns include immigration (11%), gun violence and crime (6%), government spending and taxes (6%) and political divisions or extremism (5%). Covid-19, which topped the public’s list of issues at 36% in the summer of 2021, was mentioned by only 1% of the public in the latest survey.

Although the economy is a top concern among members of both parties, other priorities differ. Immigration is the top issue for 18% of Republicans and Republican leaners, compared with 7% of Democrats and Democratic leaners; conversely, 10% of Democratic-aligned Americans cite gun issues or crime, compared with 3% of those aligned with the Republican Party, with much of that difference between the two parties coming in the share citing gun control specifically (7% on the Democratic-leaning side name gun control as a top issue, compared with 1% among Republicans and Republican-leaners).

Americans’ outlook on the US remains generally bleak: 70% say things in the country are going badly, an uptick from 65% in December. Much of that shift comes from rising pessimism among Democrats: 58% now say things are going badly, a 16-point rise from last month.

But while public discontent with the state of the nation remains widespread, the severity of Americans’ unhappiness appears to be abating. Just 15% say that things in the country are going “very badly,” down from last year’s peak of 34% during the summer and lower than at any time since May 2018.

The CNN Poll was conducted by SSRS from January 19-22 among a random national sample of 1,004 adults drawn from a probability-based panel. Surveys were either conducted online or by telephone with a live interviewer. Results among the full sample have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.0 points; it is larger for subgroups.

CNN’s Jennifer Agiesta contributed to this report.


https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/26/politics ... index.html

Is +/- 4% still considered a pretty high margin of error?

“Four out of five dentists surveyed recommend sugarless gum for their patients who chew gum.”

That poll mattered.