March 17, 2014 - Pensito

What Say, Lindsay?

March 17, 2014 Buck Banks

Sometimes politicians seem to know not what they say.
His opponent has put Lindsay Graham’s sexuality in play.
Candidate Dave Feliciano
Would like us all to know
That incumbent Senator Graham is definitively “ambiguously gay.”

McCain Likens Russia to a ‘Gas Station’

March 17, 2014 Buck Banks

Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.

— Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), quoted by Yahoo News.

What If Clinton Doesn’t Run?

March 17, 2014 Buck Banks

One thing that everyone — those who want Clinton to run and those who don’t — agrees on is that she has simply not made up her mind on the race yet and likely won’t for some time. (Our guess for an announcement about her future? Around this time next year.) So, what happens if she decides not to run? In a word: Chaos.

— Chris Cillizza, on his Washington Post blog, The Fix.

Obama Defends His Jeans

March 17, 2014March 17, 2014 Buck Banks

Day: March 17, 2014

What Say, Lindsay?

McCain Likens Russia to a ‘Gas Station’

Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.

— Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), quoted by Yahoo News.

What If Clinton Doesn’t Run?

— Chris Cillizza, on his Washington Post blog, The Fix.

Obama Defends His Jeans

I’ve been unfairly maligned about my jeans. The truth is, generally I look very sharp in jeans.

— President Obama, in an interview with Ryan Seacrest.

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.