March 18, 2013 - Pensito

March 18, 2013 Trish

58%

Americans who support marriage equality, according to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll. The same survey showed that only 24% consider being gay a lifestyle choice instead of a simple biological fact.

Won’t Fade Away

March 18, 2013 Buck Banks

It’s a sure sign this country is ailin’
And maybe that civilization is failin’.
You can’t blame the media —
You want what’s it’s feedin’ ya.
Why on earth are we still listening to Sarah Palin?

Iraq War Could End Up Costing $6 Trillion

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$6 trillion

The amount Reuters predicts the Iraq War eventually will end up costing the U.S. over the next four decades.

Jeb Bush Notes that GOP is the Party of Anti-

March 18, 2013 Buck Banks

All too often we’re associated with being anti-everything: anti-immigration, anti-women, anti-gay.

— Jeb Bush, quoted by USA Today, in an address to the Conservative Political Action Conference.

Pollster: Democrats Play to Win

March 18, 2013 Buck Banks

In my party, we play to win. We play for life and death. Your party has no problem playing the Washington Generals to the Harlem Globetrotters.

— Democratic pollster Pat Caddell, quoted by NBC News, to Republicans at CPAC.

GOP to Spend $10 Million to Garner Minority Vote

March 18, 2013 Buck Banks

$10 million

Amount the GOP has allocated to an outreach initiative to recruit minorities.

Rove Slaps Back at Palin’s Slap

March 18, 2013 Buck Banks

If I did run for office and win, I’d serve out my term. I wouldn’t leave office mid-term.

— Karl Rove, on Fox News, slapping back at Sarah Palin’s criticism of GOP consultants who “keep losing elections.”

Majority Say Iraq Invasion Was a Mistake

March 18, 2013 Buck Banks

53%

Of Americans believe the United States “made a mistake sending troops to fight in Iraq” while 42% say it was not a mistake, according to a new Gallup poll.

Fact Checker: Bachmann Complains about $1.4 Billion Cost to Run Obama White House Even Though the Cost to Run Bush’s White House Was $1.6 Billion

March 18, 2013 Jon Ponder

$1.6 Billion

Cost to run the Bush White per year — slightly more than the $1.4 billion cost of running the Obama White House, as cited in an attack on the president by Minnesota tea bagger Michele Bachmann at CPAC this weekend. The Fact Checker column from the Washington Post awarded Bachmann four Pinochios for this lie and noted that Bachmann scored the highest number of its Four Pinochio awards among all Republican candidates during the primaries last year.

Hillary Clinton Endorses Same-Gender Marriage

March 18, 2013 Buck Banks

I support it personally and as a matter of policy and law. Marriage is a fundamental building block of our society – a great joy and, yes, a great responsibility … To deny the opportunity to any of our daughters and sons solely on the basis of who they are and who they love is to deny them the chance to live up to their own God-given abilities.

— Hillary Clinton, endorsing gay marriage in a new video saying “that her views on the issue have evolved as a result of her experiences personally and as secretary of state,” Politico reports.

Day: March 18, 2013

58%

Americans who support marriage equality, according to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll. The same survey showed that only 24% consider being gay a lifestyle choice instead of a simple biological fact.

Won’t Fade Away

Iraq War Could End Up Costing $6 Trillion

$6 trillion

The amount Reuters predicts the Iraq War eventually will end up costing the U.S. over the next four decades.

Jeb Bush Notes that GOP is the Party of Anti-

All too often we’re associated with being anti-everything: anti-immigration, anti-women, anti-gay.

— Jeb Bush, quoted by USA Today, in an address to the Conservative Political Action Conference.

Pollster: Democrats Play to Win

In my party, we play to win. We play for life and death. Your party has no problem playing the Washington Generals to the Harlem Globetrotters.

— Democratic pollster Pat Caddell, quoted by NBC News, to Republicans at CPAC.

GOP to Spend $10 Million to Garner Minority Vote

$10 million

Amount the GOP has allocated to an outreach initiative to recruit minorities.

Rove Slaps Back at Palin’s Slap

If I did run for office and win, I’d serve out my term. I wouldn’t leave office mid-term.

— Karl Rove, on Fox News, slapping back at Sarah Palin’s criticism of GOP consultants who “keep losing elections.”

Majority Say Iraq Invasion Was a Mistake

53%

Of Americans believe the United States “made a mistake sending troops to fight in Iraq” while 42% say it was not a mistake, according to a new Gallup poll.

Fact Checker: Bachmann Complains about $1.4 Billion Cost to Run Obama White House Even Though the Cost to Run Bush’s White House Was $1.6 Billion

$1.6 Billion

Hillary Clinton Endorses Same-Gender Marriage

— Hillary Clinton, endorsing gay marriage in a new video saying “that her views on the issue have evolved as a result of her experiences personally and as secretary of state,” Politico reports.

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.