December 3, 2013

Texas Republican Compares Obama Admin Deal on Iranian Uranium to Chamberlain’s Appeasement of Hitler

December 3, 2013 Buck Banks

Prime Minister Chamberlain would have been proud after the West gave the snake oil salesman of the desert, Mr. Rouhani, exactly what he wanted: time and money to pursue his quest for nuclear intimidation.

— Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX), quoted by The Hill, comparing the Obama administration’s short-term deal on Iran’s nuclear capability with former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s attempt to appease Nazi Germany.

The Fight’s Not About Health Care

December 3, 2013 Buck Banks

So what are we fighting about? How smoothly the law operates, and how many customers it manages to enroll by the end of Obama’s term, are open questions. Likewise up for debate is whether Obama’s approval ratings will recover. But these are not fundamentally questions about the life or death of Obamacare. They’re about how much political pain Democrats in Congress must endure. We’re not fighting over health care policy. We’re fighting about the midterm elections.

— Jonathan Chait, writing in New York Magazine.

He Won’t Quit

December 3, 2013 Buck Banks

Gov. Rick Scott says he wants him to resign,
And his fellow Republicans think that’d be fine.
But Trey Radel says nix —
He knows Florida politics,
You’ve got to do a lot worse than snort a few cocaine lines.

Day: December 3, 2013

Texas Republican Compares Obama Admin Deal on Iranian Uranium to Chamberlain’s Appeasement of Hitler

Prime Minister Chamberlain would have been proud after the West gave the snake oil salesman of the desert, Mr. Rouhani, exactly what he wanted: time and money to pursue his quest for nuclear intimidation.

— Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX), quoted by The Hill, comparing the Obama administration’s short-term deal on Iran’s nuclear capability with former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s attempt to appease Nazi Germany.

The Fight’s Not About Health Care

— Jonathan Chait, writing in New York Magazine.

He Won’t Quit

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“One woman at a rally in New Jersey told me last week that she was ‘nauseously optimistic.’ That may capture a lot of people’s last-minute jitters.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by Axios, on what Democrats feel ahead of the midterm elections.

“I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace’s bathroom.”

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by The Wrap.

“Boy, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. It feels like a real desperation play to me, because it has got zero basis in the law.”

— Republican election law expert Ben Ginsberg, quoted by Politico, on the Trump administration’s effort to invalidate Alaska’s election results.

Numerati

3,824

$1.4 billion

-35 points

31%

63% to 38%

KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”