Month: October 2011
Biden Says GOP Strong Enough to Win
Absolutely, it’s strong enough to beat both of us. No matter what the circumstance, at the end of the day, the American people right now, many of them are in trouble, an even larger percentage have stagnant wages and a significant majority of the American people believe the country’s not moving in the right direction. That is never a good place to be going into a re-election.
— Vice President Joe Biden, in an interview with David Gregory, on whether the Republican party is strong enough to win in 2012.
Huntsman: Palin Never Intended to Run
There’s too much drama and theater in politics. I mean come on. You string people along. Everybody who has anything to do with politics knew she wasn’t going to get in the race. She has a profit proposition, she’s got a business. She makes money doing what she’s doing.
— Jon Huntsman, in an interview on The View, criticizing Sarah Palin for waiting so long to announce that she would not run for president.
Only Half Can Name GOP Candidates
54%
Of Americans are able to name at least one of the Republican presidential candidates unprompted, according to a Pew Research survey. However, smaller percentages name the leading candidates than in previous Republican races. Just 28% name Rick Perry and 27% name Mitt Romney.
Art Pope: In 2010, A Koch Bros’ Mini-Me Bought the Legislature of the 10th Largest State for $2.2 Mil
Art Pope, the right-wing extremist, multimillionaire owner of low-end retail outlets, Roses and Maxway stores, in eastern North Carolina, spent $2.2 million on local legislative races in 2010 and flipped the N.C. Legislature from blue to red for the first since 1870.
Jane Mayer profiles him in the New Yorker:
Occupiers Can’t Spell in Sarasota, Either
Occupy Wall Street has overflowed to, of all places, Sarasota, Fla. About 100 people gathered on Main Street in front of Bank of America (as if they don’t already have enough troubles) and waved signs in varying degrees of legibility and spellfulness.
Who knew the sleepy little Gulf Coast town was a hotbed of radicalism?
Obama Administration Programs Have Created or Saved 19.4 Million Jobs
19.4 million
Number of jobs estimated by nonpartisan ProPublica that have been created or saved as a result of the programs and stimulus packages implemented since President Obama took office.
Won’t Be VP
His celebrity is not wanin’ — it’s waxin’!
And it’s the limelight where Marco Rubio’s been baskin’.
But he sure is quite adamant,
That he won’t be vice president.
Funny, I don’t recall that any candidate had asked him.
