May 14, 2013 - Pensito

Pelosi Muses — If Boehner were Female

May 14, 2013 Buck Banks

If he were a woman, they’d be calling him the weakest speaker in history.

— House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), quoted by the Huffington Post, on Speaker John Boehner (R-OH).

Three Strikes — Out!

May 14, 2013 Buck Banks

First, it was the whole Benghazi embassy mess,
Then, it was the Tea Party scandal with the IRS.
Of course, everyone agrees,
Bad things come in threes.
Wait for it — Justice was spying on the Associated Press!

IRS Asked One Tea Party Group 55 Questions

May 14, 2013 Buck Banks

55

Number of questions the IRS asked one tea party group, including demands for names of all its donors and volunteers, The Daily Mail reports.

Candidate Claims She’s Endorsed by Jesus Christ

May 14, 2013May 15, 2013 Buck Banks

It’s a spiritual endorsement. Why? Because everything I do I always get God involved.

— Anna Pierre, mayoral candidate in North Miami, Fla., explaining why her campaign posters say she was endorsed by Jesus Christ, WPLG-TV reports. Pierre said she prayed leading up to registering for her candidacy and received three signs that Jesus was her endorser. But when asked about those signs, she said, “Well, I’m going to keep them private.”

Obama Feels Pressure to Fulfill Agenda

May 14, 2013 Buck Banks

Day: May 14, 2013

Pelosi Muses — If Boehner were Female

If he were a woman, they’d be calling him the weakest speaker in history.

— House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), quoted by the Huffington Post, on Speaker John Boehner (R-OH).

Three Strikes — Out!

IRS Asked One Tea Party Group 55 Questions

55

Number of questions the IRS asked one tea party group, including demands for names of all its donors and volunteers, The Daily Mail reports.

Candidate Claims She’s Endorsed by Jesus Christ

It’s a spiritual endorsement. Why? Because everything I do I always get God involved.

Obama Feels Pressure to Fulfill Agenda

I want to get some stuff done — I don’t have a lot of time. I’ve got three and a half years left — and it goes by like that.

— President Obama, quoted by USA Today, at a Democratic fundraiser.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer.”

— Vice President JD Vance, on Fox News.

“Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day. And the Democratic Party brand right now is so bullshit.”

— Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by The Atlantic, speaking to college students.

“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.

Numerati

+175,000

“The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President Donald Trump’s administration so far,” Fox News reports.

$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%