Month: June 2011
Just Like Us
$190 – $250 million
Mitt and Ann Romney’s assets, according to the Washington Post. A mere $5 million is kept in their Bank of America checking account (probably just to avoid the $6 monthly fee), while much of the rest was in blind trusts. Separate trusts for their children total an additional $100 million. Romney, who announced his candidacy on June 2, has spent $9 million of his own money so far on his second run for president.
Old McDonald Gives Gay Marriage Opponents an Earful
You get to the point where you evolve in your life where everything isn’t black and white, good and bad, and you try to do the right thing. You might not like that. You might be very cynical about that. Well, fuck it, I don’t care what you think. I’m trying to do the right thing. I’m tired of Republican-Democrat politics. They can take the job and shove it. I come from a blue-collar background. I’m trying to do the right thing and that’s where I’m going with this.
— Sen. Roy McDonald, one of a handful of Republicans bucking their own party who will vote to legalize gay marriage in New York state, expressing his displeasure with being pushed around by gay marriage opponents.
Rick Perry: Something Like Bush or Nothing Like Bush?
Certainly, you are not going to see a great philosophical difference between Rick Perry and George Bush.
— Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), quoted by the Lubbock Avalanche Journal, in December 2000. As Perry mulls a presidential bid, Dan Amira notes it’s “hard to claim you’re nothing like Bush after saying something like that.”
Romney a Remnant of Old GOP
There is a jittery sense among Republican savants that Romney is a straw man, ready to be toppled, because the party has changed irrevocably. It has traded in country-club aristocracy for pitchfork populism.
— Joe Klein, writing in Time magazine.
Republicans’ 2008 Honeymoon with Voters Is Waaay Over
18%
Is Congress’ approval rating, down four points from last month; it’s lowest since March 2010 (healthcare month), according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. The GOP’s fav/unfav is 30% to 44%, compared with the Democratic Party’s 38% to 39% score. Only 10% of respondents have a “great deal” or “quite a bit” of confidence in Congress, and majorities of ALL respondents (including Republicans) believe the House GOP has not brought much change. And the number thinking the GOP proposal to overhaul Medicare is a bad idea has increased nine points since April to 31%; just 22% believe it’s a good idea.
A Thousand Words
Looks like Tony Weiner is saying goodbye.
We’ll all recall him as a real stand-up guy.
Because of his sexting mess,
He’s resigning from Congress,
But we’ll always have the twitpics to remember him by.
Latter Day Saint
Mitt Romney thinks there’s no harm in
Acting like a necktie-free Prince Charmin’.
But those of the Granite State
Say in the wake of the debate,
“Necktie or not, he’s still Mormon!”
