Month: August 2013

Chait: Boehner a ‘Trembling Child Monarch’

Buck Banks

Yesterday, the House of Representatives pulled a bill from the floor for lack of votes — the sort of scrambling chaos that occurs routinely in the chamber where John Boehner presides like a trembling child monarch. But this defeat was different. The bill concerned the funding of housing and transportation programs, though its failure represented more than just a programmatic setback, or even a setback for the Republican economic strategy writ large, but the potential ruin of its entire posture toward Obama. Since taking control of the House two and a half years ago, Republicans have fomented a series of crises that seemed to have no end in sight, explicitly refusing to negotiate with Obama and implicitly denying his legitimacy as president. The crumbling of that wall is far from certain, but yesterday a wide crack opened up.

— Jonathan Chait, writing in New York Magazine.

Why Christians Should Leave the Democratic Party

Buck Banks

Oh, Oh, oh I do believe it. I said it because I believe that the Democrat party has become an anti-God party, I think it’s an anti-life party, I think it’s an anti-family party. And these are all things I think Christians hold to very dearly.

— Virginia lieutenant governor nominee E.W. Jackson (R), asserting that the Democratic Party is “anti-God” and that Christians should leave it, Salon reports.

Palin’s PAC Supports … Palin’s PAC

Buck Banks

$5,000

Amount of the $496,505.68 spent by SarahPAC in the first six months of the year that actually went to political candidates, National Journal reports. Sarah Palin’s political action committee “brought in just over $460,000 during the first half of 2013, well short of its fundraising totals for the same period in previous years,” the Anchorage Daily News reports. SarahPAC ended June with about $1.1 million in cash available.