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The New ‘Red Dawn’ Rising in Ohio

January 23, 2013 Buck Banks

I’m not comparing the president to Adolf Hitler. It’s the thought of disarming citizens, and this has happened throughout history. What’s the true intention of the Second Amendment? It was to protect us from a tyrannical government, God forbid.

— Ohio Board of Education President Debe Terhar (R), saying she was not comparing President Obama to Adolf Hitler “when she posted a photograph of the Nazi leader on her Facebook page with a message critical of the administration’s new gun-control efforts,” the Columbus Dispatch reports.

What a Guy — McCain Can Actually Joke About Torture

January 23, 2013 Buck Banks

We will look forward to interrogating him at his hearing next week, mercilessly. We will bring him back for one-time waterboarding to get the truth out of him.

— Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), quoted by Politico, joking that he’ll get the truth out of Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) when he faces confirmation hearings next week to be the next Secretary of State.

Congrats and Condolences for John Kerry

January 23, 2013 Buck Banks

First, my congratulations and condolences to John Kerry for being nominated to be our next secretary of state. There is no one better for the job today and no worse job to have today. It is no accident that we’ve started measuring our secretaries of state more by miles traveled than milestones achieved. It is bloody hard to do big diplomacy anymore.

— Thomas Friedman, writing in the New York Times.

Most Americans Favor Leaving Roe v. Wade in Place

January 23, 2013 Buck Banks

53% vs. 29%

Forty years after the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Roe v. Wade, significantly more Americans want the landmark abortion decision kept in place rather than overturned.

After 40 Years, Republicans Still Haven’t Stopped Trying to Come Between a Woman and Her Doctor

January 22, 2013January 22, 2013 Trish

Almost Everyone in Congress Tweets

January 22, 2013 Buck Banks

100

United States Senators — all of them — are now using Twitter, while 90% of House of Representatives members are on the network, according to Twitter.

Americans Cautiously Optimistic About Nation’s Future

January 22, 2013 Buck Banks

39%

Of Americans rate the current status of the U.S. positively. While more — 48% — predict the nation will be doing well in five years, this is fewer than have said so at any time since 1979.

What He Saw

January 21, 2013January 21, 2013 Jon Ponder

When Pres. Obama took a last look at the crowd at his inauguration today, this is what he saw.

— @WestWingReport on Twitter

We weren’t so excited about Obama’s second inaugural, we confess,
But the president took the opportunity some wrongs to redress.
There is no mistaking,
The speech was ground-breaking —
Obama is the first president to mention gay rights in his inaugural address.

Month: January 2013

The New ‘Red Dawn’ Rising in Ohio

I’m not comparing the president to Adolf Hitler. It’s the thought of disarming citizens, and this has happened throughout history. What’s the true intention of the Second Amendment? It was to protect us from a tyrannical government, God forbid.

— Ohio Board of Education President Debe Terhar (R), saying she was not comparing President Obama to Adolf Hitler “when she posted a photograph of the Nazi leader on her Facebook page with a message critical of the administration’s new gun-control efforts,” the Columbus Dispatch reports.

What a Guy — McCain Can Actually Joke About Torture

We will look forward to interrogating him at his hearing next week, mercilessly. We will bring him back for one-time waterboarding to get the truth out of him.

— Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), quoted by Politico, joking that he’ll get the truth out of Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) when he faces confirmation hearings next week to be the next Secretary of State.

Congrats and Condolences for John Kerry

— Thomas Friedman, writing in the New York Times.

Most Americans Favor Leaving Roe v. Wade in Place

53% vs. 29%

Forty years after the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Roe v. Wade, significantly more Americans want the landmark abortion decision kept in place rather than overturned.

After 40 Years, Republicans Still Haven’t Stopped Trying to Come Between a Woman and Her Doctor

Almost Everyone in Congress Tweets

100

United States Senators — all of them — are now using Twitter, while 90% of House of Representatives members are on the network, according to Twitter.

Americans Cautiously Optimistic About Nation’s Future

39%

Of Americans rate the current status of the U.S. positively. While more — 48% — predict the nation will be doing well in five years, this is fewer than have said so at any time since 1979.

What He Saw

Whoo-Hoo!

All you Fashionistas may want to know that Mrs. O tonight is wearing a gown from Jason Wu. Who? Wu. And shoes by Choo.

— @WestWingReport on Twitter

An Honorable Mention

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

44%

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by Deadline, in his July 4th message.

Numerati

$4,600

11

30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%

81

A Reuters analysis of Trump’s public comments from June 23 through July 6 (13 days) — when a string of left-wing Democratic candidates won their party’s primaries in New York — found he invoked communism 81 times.