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He is like the most focused, disciplined guy. To imagine being a former president and not having an opinion on anything over the last four years, really? I mean, to have that discipline, to be respectful of the president that hasn’t been as respectful of him as he should have been? Man. I could have never done that.
— Jeb Bush, in a CNN interview, on his brother, former President George W. Bush.
$1.3 million
Amount the federal government spent on George W. Bush in 2012. That includes almost $400,000 for 8,000 square feet of office space and $85,000 in telephone costs, Politico reports. In total, the government “spent nearly $3.7 million on former presidents last year. That covers a $200,000 pension, compensation and benefits for office staff, and other costs like travel, office space and postage.
We do have a platform, and we adhere to that platform. But it doesn’t mean that we divide and subtract people from our party.
— RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, quoted by USA Today, defending the Republican party platform.
In my decades of polling, I recall only one moment when a party had been driven as far from the center as the Republican Party has been today. … The outsize influence of hard-line elements in the party base is doing to the GOP what supporters of Gene McCarthy and George McGovern did to the Democratic Party in the late 1960s and early 1970s — radicalizing its image and standing in the way of its revitalization.
— Pollster Andrew Kohut, writing in the Washington Post.
“Oral arguments.” Heh. (Sorry, I had to get that out of my system, and I think we’re all worse off for it.)
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) on Twitter on the day the U.S. Supreme Court is deciding about marriage equality.
