Day: January 17, 2013

Please Remember This Figure When Tea Baggers Start Complaining About the First Lady’s Dress

Trish

$62,692.54

What Nancy Reagan’s inaugural ball gown would cost in today’s dollars. According to CNN, the dress, a “hand-beaded gown by American couturier James Galanos, cost $22,500 and oozed the Hollywood glamour that she and her actor-turned-politician husband brought to the White House.”

Gibbs Says Obama Needs to Out-Campaign NRA

Buck Banks

The NRA is continually trumpeting they increased their membership by ‘x’ amount in this month. The president has the most exciting campaign apparatus ever built. It’s time to turn that loose. It’s time to turn that loose for something more than just an election. If the NRA’s got a list, then Obama for America has a bigger list and it is time to get activated again.

— Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, interviewed on Morning Joe.

Second Congressman Suggests Obama Impeachment

Buck Banks

It is one of those times in our history, we are at this breaking point. We have completely lost our checks and balances in this country, the Congress needs to hold the president accountable for the decisions that he’s making right now, and that why again, I would say that all options should be on the table.

— Rep. Trey Radel (R-FL), telling The Shark Tank that President Obama could be impeached over his executive actions on gun control.

Obama’s Approval Rate Is High

Buck Banks

52%

President Obama’s approval rate, his highest since the early months of his presidency, a new Pew Research survey find. Meanwhile, the Republican Party’s image, “which reached a recent high of 42% favorable following the GOP convention this past summer, has fallen once again to a low of just 33%. Much of this decline has come among Republicans themselves.”

Flashback: George W. Bush Used ‘Snowflake Children’ As Props When He Announced His Veto of Stem Cell Research in 2006

Jon Ponder

Led by Rush Limbaugh, the right wing is outraged that Pres. Obama invited children to the White House to participate in his announcement of proposals for new gun-safety measures yesterday. One right-wing propagandist even compared Obama’s including children in the event with Saddam Hussein petting a British child he was holding hostage during the first Bush war with Iraq.

Of course, Limbaugh and his Dittohead chorus had no problem whatsoever in July 2006 when Bush Jr. brought “snowflake children” onto the stage with him as props to help soften his veto of stem-cell research — research that could have helped patients with Alzheimers, among many other illnesses, and the support of Nancy Reagan.

Here is Pensito’s story about the event, from July 19, 2006.