Stormy Days …..

Stormy Days Ahead

The surprising raid on the President’s personal attorney’s offices and home opens a whole new dimension to the investigations.  Simply put, as have have written often, it appears to us that the “collusion illusion” is a dead end.  However, the financial side of things is a whole different game. Something is coming now and this is going to get messy.
There are two areas that jump out as potential targets:
1. The payment to Stormy Daniels, and who knew what, when and what they said they did.
2. The Trump finances and foreign dealings before the election.

One of those two is the area of investigation and either is a problem for Trump and the Republicans. What started on a lie “collusion” is now opening new fangs.

Impact on the 2018 Elections

This will put the administration and thus the Republicans in a worse position than they were before. Unless other events overtake things (and six months is a long time in politics) this is a headed for a Democratic tide wave. The odds of Speaker Pelosi is very probable at this point.

Syria

Some far leftists will yell the action we are about to take in Syria is a Wag The Dog scenario. They will do so because we expect a very strong action by the administration.  They will see it was done so strongly because of a desire to take attention away from the Mueller and now new investigation.
They will be wrong. A strong action is a must.

The President promised and for credibility reasons he needs to act. Failure to so and he becomes Obama and red lines that means nothing.

Second he must be extra strong to show North Korea he means what he says. A strong action here will convince Kim Jong un that Trump is not one to fool around with.

Third Putin has to know we are serious. No way that Assad did what he did without Putin’s knowledge and thus approval.

Fourth Iran. They are watching to see if Trump is as tough and “crazy” as they fear. He has to assure them he is as he prepares to cancel the Iran deal.

So expect a big action — if not done by the time you read this.

A Tax Update

Remember all the noise about this tax cut was for the rich? Well here’s a stat out this week:

In 2018, households in the top 20% will have income of about $150,000 or more and 52% of total income, about the same as in 2017.
But they will pay about 87% of the income taxes.  This is up from about 84% last year

So let that sink in. The top 20% will earn the same ratio of income this year as last. However they will pay 87% of the federal taxes. That 87% is up 3%. Wait I thought this was a tax break for the rich. Will the liberals and MSM apologize for their false accusations.

The Ratings

MSNBC has continually closed the gap on Fox and the ratings below illustrate that. With the announcement last night of the new probe, I am guessing they will win a few days this week too.

Total Viewers TUESDAY.
Fox wins but they and MSNBC are much closer than the past.

• Total day: FNC: 1.570 | CNN: 778 | MSNBC: 1.238 | HLN: 208
• Primetime: FNC: 2.488 | CNN: 1.018 | MSNBC: 2.186 | HLN: 280

	4p:	5p:	6p:	7p:	8p:	9p:	10p:	11p:
FNC	Shep: 1.275	Shep: 2.269	Baier: 2.234	MacCallum: 2.008	Carlson: 2.416	Hannity: 2.931	Ingraham: 2.111	Bream: 1.336
CNN	Tapper: 887	Blitzer: 1.188	Blitzer: 1.033	Burnett: 923	Cooper: 1.034	Cooper: 1.055	Lemon: 962	Lemon: 751
MSNBC	Wallace: 1.313	MTPDaily: 1.401	Melber: 1.139	Matthews: 1.626	Hayes: 1.820	Maddow: 2.747	O’Donnell: 1.992	Wlms: 1.403
HLN	Michaela: 69	Cupp: 67	Banfield: 89	Banfield: 144	Killer: 189	Killer: 295	Files: 355	Files: 452

Total Viewers THURSDAY. MSNBC edges Fox to win the night.

• Total day: FNC: 1.526 | CNN: 690 | MSNBC: 1.266 | HLN: 205
• Primetime: FNC: 2.392 | CNN: 861 | MSNBC: 2.424 | HLN: 225

	4p:	5p:	6p:	7p:	8p:	9p:	10p:	11p:
FNC	Cavuto: 1.139	Five: 2.004	Baier: 1.918	MacCallum: 1.693	Carlson: 2.496	Hannity: 2.704	Ingraham: 1.974	Bream: 1.273
CNN	Tapper: 697	Blitzer: 779	Blitzer: 713	Burnett: 814	Cooper: 918	Cooper: 853	Tonight: 808	Tonight: 752
MSNBC	Wallace: 1.231	MTPDaily: 1.179	Melber: 1.357	Matthews: 1.618	Hayes: 1.803	Maddow: 2.904	O’Donnell: 2.565	Wlms: 1.759
HLN	Michaela: 89	Cupp: 83	Banfield: 126	Banfield: 181	Files: 168	Files: 243	Files: 265	Files: 456

Total Viewers FRIDAY. Fox wins the night. 

• Total day: FNC: 1.408 | CNN: 675 |  MSNBC: 1.151 | HLN: 202
• Primetime: FNC: 2.140 | CNN: 902 | MSNBC: 1.849 | HLN: 255

	4p:	5p:	6p:	7p:	8p:	9p:	10p:	11p:
FNC	Cavuto: 972	Five: 1.760	Baier: 1.603	MacCallum: 1.371	Carlson: 2.267	HannitySpcl: 2.590	Ingraham: 1.562	Bream: 1028
CNN	Tapper: 729	Blitzer: 748	Blitzer: 772	Burnett: 863	Cooper: 1.121	Cooper: 812	Tonight: 770	Tonight: 703
MSNBC	Wallace: 1.177	MTPDaily: 1.165	Melber: 1.251	Matthews: 1.430	Rvolution: 1.251	Maddow: 2.526	O’Donnell: 1.769	Wlms: 1.271
HLN	Michaela: 83	Files: 75	Files: 97	Unmask: 160	Unmask: 230	DeathRw: 247	Files: 287	Files: 409