January 27, 2015

Pelosi Hopes Romney Runs

January 27, 2015 Buck Banks

Let me put it this way — I hope he’s their nominee.

— House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, quoted by The Hill, on Mitt Romney considering another presidential bid.

Too Damn Bad

January 27, 2015 Buck Banks

Now Jimmy McMillan is an entertaining guy.
When running for New York mayor he was not shy.
But he couldn’t get elected,
And now he’s being evicted.
Now we see the rent really is too damn high.

Gay Alabama Lawmaker Threatens to Expose Affairs Over Gay Marriage Ban

January 27, 2015 Buck Banks

I will not stand by and allow legislators to talk about ‘family values’ when they have affairs, and I know of many who are and have. I will call our elected officials who want to hide in the closet out.

— Alabama State Rep. Patricia Todd (D) warned her colleagues there would be consequences if they continues to oppose same-sex marriage, the Times Daily reports.

Koch Brothers to Spend Like a Political Party on 2016

January 27, 2015 Buck Banks

$889 million

Amount the Koch brothers’ political operation intends to spend in the run-up to the 2016 elections, Politico reports. “The spending goal, shared with donors at a Monday morning session at the Rancho Mirage Ritz Carlton, reflects the sweeping ambition of a private conservative political network that in many ways has eclipsed the power of the official Republican Party. The $889 million spending goal dwarfs the $404 million the Republican National Committee spent during the 2012 election and the $188 million it dropped during last year’s midterm campaign.”

Rick Perry Says Government’s Employment Figures Are ‘Massaged’

January 27, 2015 Buck Banks

It’s been massaged, it’s been doctored.

— Rick Perry, telling a gathering of the Republican Jewish Coalition that they shouldn’t trust the official unemployment rate coming out of Washington, Huffington Post reports.

Obama’s Approval Hits 50% for the First Time Since 2013

January 27, 2015 Buck Banks

50%

President Barack Obama’s job approval rating less than a week after his State of the Union speech, according to Gallup Daily tracking conducted Friday through Sunday. This is the first time the president’s rating has returned to that level in Gallup’s ongoing three-day rolling averages since June 2013.

Day: January 27, 2015

Pelosi Hopes Romney Runs

Let me put it this way — I hope he’s their nominee.

— House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, quoted by The Hill, on Mitt Romney considering another presidential bid.

Too Damn Bad

Gay Alabama Lawmaker Threatens to Expose Affairs Over Gay Marriage Ban

I will not stand by and allow legislators to talk about ‘family values’ when they have affairs, and I know of many who are and have. I will call our elected officials who want to hide in the closet out.

— Alabama State Rep. Patricia Todd (D) warned her colleagues there would be consequences if they continues to oppose same-sex marriage, the Times Daily reports.

Koch Brothers to Spend Like a Political Party on 2016

$889 million

Rick Perry Says Government’s Employment Figures Are ‘Massaged’

It’s been massaged, it’s been doctored.

— Rick Perry, telling a gathering of the Republican Jewish Coalition that they shouldn’t trust the official unemployment rate coming out of Washington, Huffington Post reports.

Obama’s Approval Hits 50% for the First Time Since 2013

50%

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.