Day: October 18, 2010
Verbatim
Who cares? I want to get a tow truck and tow it away, just as we had to get a tow truck to pull the economy of our country out of the ditch that the Republicans drove us into.
— House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), quoted by CBS Sunday Morning, sticking to the Dems’ automotive metaphor when asked for her reaction to the “Fire Pelosi” bus the RNC is driving around the country.
Verbatim
You can choose who your partner is. I think that birth has an influence, like alcoholism and some other things … But I think that, basically, you have a choice.
— Colorado U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck (R), in a debate on Meet the Press, when pressed on his view that being gay is a choice.
Verbatim
I think that you’re misinterpreting those commercials. I’m not sure that those are Latinos in that commercial. What it is, is a fence and there are people coming across that fence. What we know is that our northern border is where the terrorists came through. That’s the most porous border that we have. We cannot allow terrorists; we cannot allow anyone to come across our border if we don’t know why they’re coming. So we have to secure all of our borders and that’s what that was about, is border security. Not just our southern border, but our coastal border and our northern border.
— Nevada U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle (R), not very convincingly defending her campaign ads that use images of dark-skinned men and a map of Mexico, the Las Vegas Sun reported. In fact, Angle suggested they might be terrorists coming from Canada.
O’Donnell Dough Trouble
Christine O’Donnell says her party’s a bum
For refusing to fork over a sum.
But the RNC’s right
To keep its purse strings tight —
She’d just give it all to her mom.
California Not Feeling GOP Wave in House Races – Just Three of 53 Districts in Play and One Is GOP
If Republicans take the House next month, the “wave” of seats flipping from blue to red in the Rust and Bible belts will stop at Nevada’s western border, according to analysis by Mackenzie Weinger writing for CalBuzz.
“We’re a Dem-leaning state and President Obama’s approval ratings are a bit higher here than they are elsewhere, and in some ways that insulates us from that backlash,” said UC San Diego political science professor Thad Kousser, according to Weinger. “And secondly, the post-2000 redistricting means there are a lot less competitive seats.”
Within the state’s 53-seat House delegation, Weinger found just three seats up for grabs and one of them is held by Dan Lungren, a Republican. Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez, one of the most prominent members of the California delegation, is in a competitive race for the first time since she was elected in 1996, and Rep. Jerry McNerney, the other Democrat, is opposed by the tea bagger who made news last week calling for closing all public schools in America.
