Even the shriller-for-the-GOP Rasmussen polling (linked there) puts him no better than 5-43 negative, or over 10 points into net disapproval.
But Paul “cleans it up” by saying… wait for it! — that Kamala Harris’s negatives are pretty high as well.
But Kamala has been out of public life for… what? Almost a year?!
The orange dotard? He is still theoretically running our nation (and or chaos creating, as a brand).
So do look at right.
No chance will Tanerine / the Manchurian Cantaloupe ever get a shot at a third term.
No way.
Out.
Powerline Lies... 
Hey, look who’s back. It’s me! I figured out that I could still comment on Powerline, even without subscribing, because our hosts (apparently) did not lock everything down. (My return has not been met with cheers and confetti.) Today’s Bill Glahn post is a dilly. Here was my comment, posted moments ago (but already downvoted):
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Bill has declined to disclose that Congress put money into an emergency fund to pay for SNAP benefits—specifically, a contingency fund with around $5 billion currently in it, for situations just like this one.
Bill has also declined to disclose that under past shutdowns, during both Republican and Democratic administrations, SNAP benefits have always been provided using available funding sources to prevent a break in benefits.
And hey, it’s not just me saying this. The Trump administration itself was saying this as recently as a month ago. The Trump administration’s USDA’s 2025 “Lapse of Funding Plan,” dated September 30, 2025, stated that the Office of Management and Budget has instructed USDA that fiscal year 2025 funding would cover SNAP benefits for October, the first month of the fiscal year, and that the contingency reserves would be available to pay subsequent months’ benefits, as well as state administrative costs.
Here’s a screenshot of the USDA report, which was posted to the USDA website on 9/30/25, and then subsequently removed from the site (for some reason). Bill declined to disclose any of this. Maybe he was unaware.
Bill is, however, absolutely right when he states:
However, he doesn’t seem to understand what that means: If 60 votes are needed, then the bill needs to make 60 senators happy, or at least be something 60 senators can live with. Democrats seem willing, have even showed up on the House floor, to talk about how to make that happen, how to get those required Democratic votes. Republicans, at President Trump’s direction, have refused to attend those conversations.
Bill is also on track (and so close to getting it) when he states:
In other words, the power to reopen the government has been in Republicans’ hands all along. They could end the shutdown today without a single Democratic vote. For some reason, they’ve chosen not to.
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Excellent comment! Thanks man — he’s a dishonest tool… like Hinderaker!
ICE is here raiding my neighborhood while kids are out trying to Trick or Treat…
Insane!
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