To be honest, if Trump carries on the way he is going, he'll need the wall to stop Americans escaping to Mexico!

Well that was easy, only took 2 minutes too.

Thats the thing about a wall. It keeps people out and it keeps people in

No rope need. Just climb over!

And another exit.

"The president's long-time personal aide John McEntee has been fired by the White House, according to US media.

Mr McEntee, who served as an aide since early in the campaign, was reportedly escorted by security and was not permitted to collect his belongings.

President Donald Trump's re-election campaign announced on Tuesday Mr McEntee would join as a "senior adviser for campaign operations".

The announcement came on the same day Mr Trump fired his secretary of state.

Mr McEntee was fired amid a US Department of Homeland Security investigation against him for financial crimes, CBS News reports.

US media reported his abrupt exit came about due to difficulties in obtaining a full security clearance."

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43388157

Just like all those wanky celebrities who promised that they would leave?

Drain the swamp!
Drain the swamp!
Drain the swamp!

I have a feeling that we're going to hear the true definition of "wanky celebrity" from Stormy Daniels any day now

Democrat Conor Lamb claimed victory in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District special election in a speech to his supporters.
Slightly premature since he is less than 600 votes ahead and not all absentee ballots have been counted.

This was thought to be a safe GOP seat where Trump won by 20 points and is the first House seat since Trump's election to be flipped to the Dems.

Meanwhile Robert M. Lightfoot Jr., the acting NASA administrator, announced that he would retire on April 30 but did not say why he was retiring.

NASA has been without a permanent leader for more than a year, Trump nominated a new leader last September but his Senate approval is delayed due to concerns about his views on climate change.
Both the NASA number 2 seat and Chief of Staff are vacant with no nominee proposed.
The NASA number 3 seat is also filled by an acting NASA administrator.

Source

For those wondering about a possible recount:
https://heavy.com/news/2018/03/penns...-law-absentee/

Keep in mind that in most of Pennsylvania there is no paper backup to the electronic voting machines, so a recount is not as useful or relevant as when you have a piece of paper to verify. Republicans thought that no paper backup was fine in the 2016 election but maybe they'll want to reconsider if this seat is lost.

http://www.pennlive.com/politics/ind..._machines.html

The US economy is doing well, the tax cuts are in place and working, the Dems have no strong policies or manifestos so it is difficult to find any cause for this GOP loss other than Trump's personal unpopularity?

The Dems cannot continue with only the story line "we are not Trump", they need to up their game.

GOP backing down!

Source

An interesting tidbit on the upcoming midterm elections based on the outcome in Pennsylvania.

"But here is the ONE fact that above all proves that this special election was an unmitigated disaster for the Republican Party: There are 114 Republican-held congressional seats that are LESS red than Pennsylvania’s 18th district. Since the Democrats need to gain only 24 seats in the November elections, this fact spells doom for the GOP."

Source: https://www.politicususa.com/2018/03...can-party.html

Gotta love the hyperbole of Politicus, "1 Fact Shows Why The Pennsylvania Special Election Was A Disaster For The GOP" followed by your headline, "But here is the ONE fact that above all proves that this special election was an unmitigated disaster for the Republican Party: There are 114 Republican-held congressional seats that are LESS red than Pennsylvania’s 18th district. Since the Democrats need to gain only 24 seats in the November elections, this fact spells doom for the GOP."

Disaster/unmitigated disaster/doom... do you think, just maybe, that they are trying to create and push a narrative here?

Geez...

Trump has complained in recent days that his Cabinet has fallen well short of his expectations and wants to purge all the "deadweight," one official said.

So who will feel the axe

The following Cabinet members have all been criticised by Trump or are under clouds of one sort or another; Jeff Sessions, Ben Carson, David Shulkin, Betsy DeVos, H.R. McMaster, Ryan Zinke, Scott Pruitt plus the rumours circulating about chief of staff John Kelly.

When you look at this long list plus the long list of people fired by Trump and another long list of White House people unable to get full security clearances then one has to wonder about Trump's competence to select people.

banned in Amerika

https://wearechange.org/australian-a...now-banned-tv/

Have to agree. The language being used is over-the-top. Yes, this race is interesting given the flip from 20+ points ahead for Trump. Maybe it doesn't bode well for November but the Democrats still have work to do. I don't they should start picking wallpaper for congressional offices just yet.

Certainly they are. Still it is a sweet moment for those of us who are not Trump lovers. Losing from a 20 point lead is hard to explain, unless you admit that Trump in power is toxic . Conor Lamb was a dream candidate for the Democrats. They will not always be so lucky, partly because the Bernie Sanders wing will be lobbying for their guys, who are much less electable in red states.

After what looked like a market recovery the Dow reversed and crashed down again over the last couple of days and is now well under 25,000 again.

All good positive stuff which makes it even more hard to understand why Trump and his administration seem to be doing everything possible to stop the Gateway project which is a plan to build two new train tunnels from New Jersey into Manhattan.
Surely cannot be so simple as New Jersey and Manhattan did not vote for Trump