February 10, 2012

The Difference Between Investing and Gambling

February 10, 2012February 12, 2012 Buck Banks

I love the fact that Sheldon put in about $10 million with Gingrich and I put in a lot less with Rick. I like to say I’m an investor and Sheldon is a casino guy.

— Santorum Super PAC financier Foster Freiss, in an interview on Bloomberg TV, poking fun at Gingrich Super PAC backer Sheldon Adelson.

Gingrich’s Money Line Drying Up

February 10, 2012 Buck Banks

$11 million

Amount the family of casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his family have donated to Newt Gingrich’s super-PAC in the past two months, according to interviews and Federal Election Commission records. The Adelsons don’t plan to deliver another big check to a Super PAC backing Gingrich’s presidential campaign, Bloomberg reports.

Santorum Doesn’t Need to Go Neg on Romney

February 10, 2012 Buck Banks

Santorum doesn’t even need to run negatives against Romney, which is telling.

— GOP strategist Alex Castellanos, quoted by The Hill.

Romney Doth Protest Too Much

February 10, 2012 Buck Banks

I was a severely conservative Republican governor.

— Mitt Romney, quoted by the Washington Post, attempting to convince a convention of right-wing activists that he’s one of them.

By New Birther Standard, Romney and Santorum Are Ineligible to Be President

February 10, 2012 Jon Ponder

In desperation to deligitmize the presidency of Barack Obama, America’s first African-American president, a birther in Pennsylvania named Thomas Barchfield is trying to establish a new standard of eligibility for the presidency, based on a ruling by the Supreme Court in 1875:

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Weak Leaky TV

February 10, 2012June 19, 2015 Buck Banks

We thought when he founded Wikileaks
That his fame and his fortune had peaked.
But for Julian Assange
The show must go on —
Now he’s hosting a talkie on Russian TV!

Day: February 10, 2012

The Difference Between Investing and Gambling

I love the fact that Sheldon put in about $10 million with Gingrich and I put in a lot less with Rick. I like to say I’m an investor and Sheldon is a casino guy.

— Santorum Super PAC financier Foster Freiss, in an interview on Bloomberg TV, poking fun at Gingrich Super PAC backer Sheldon Adelson.

Gingrich’s Money Line Drying Up

$11 million

Santorum Doesn’t Need to Go Neg on Romney

Santorum doesn’t even need to run negatives against Romney, which is telling.

— GOP strategist Alex Castellanos, quoted by The Hill.

Romney Doth Protest Too Much

I was a severely conservative Republican governor.

— Mitt Romney, quoted by the Washington Post, attempting to convince a convention of right-wing activists that he’s one of them.

By New Birther Standard, Romney and Santorum Are Ineligible to Be President

Weak Leaky TV

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“One woman at a rally in New Jersey told me last week that she was ‘nauseously optimistic.’ That may capture a lot of people’s last-minute jitters.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by Axios, on what Democrats feel ahead of the midterm elections.

“I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace’s bathroom.”

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by The Wrap.

“Boy, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. It feels like a real desperation play to me, because it has got zero basis in the law.”

— Republican election law expert Ben Ginsberg, quoted by Politico, on the Trump administration’s effort to invalidate Alaska’s election results.

Numerati

3,824

$1.4 billion

-35 points

31%

63% to 38%

KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”