May 5, 2015 - Pensito

Huckabee Declares His Candidacy — Good Luckabee!

May 5, 2015 Buck Banks

Eight years later our debt has more than doubled, America’s leadership in the world has completely evaporated and the country is more polarized than ever in my lifetime.

— Mike Huckabee, quoted by Yahoo News, formally announcing his presidential bid.

Amount in tax breaks allowed for every episode of “Duck Dynasty” taped in Louisiana, even as Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) tries to close a $1.6 billion budget hole, the Baton Rouge Advocate reports. “The A&E television reality show takes part in the nation’s most generous entertainment-tax credit program. Jindal is proposing no changes, arguing that reducing such breaks is tantamount to raising taxes.”

So, Walker Doesn’t Deal In Hypotheticals

May 5, 2015 Buck Banks

That’s a hypothetical question in the past.

— Gov. Scott Walker (R), quoted by Bloomberg, refusing to say whether he would have supported federal loans to General Motors and Chrysler to get through their 2009 bankruptcies.

Jade Helm 15 has the state quaking in its boots, defenseless.
The governor has called out the National Guard — he’s reckless!
Sure, they recently threatened
To stage a vote for secession,
But still, why on earth would Obama want to invade and take over Texas?

Expel Texas: Gov. Abbott Musters State Guard in Apparent Move to Confront U.S. Troops, Provoke War with United States

May 5, 2015May 6, 2015 Jon Ponder

Last week, Texas’ new governor, Greg Abbott, announced what was arguably the most militaristic anti-government action taken by a U.S. governor since the Civil War. Abbott ordered the Texas State Guard to muster in Bastrop County this summer to protect local residents while United States troops, including Army Green Berets and Navy SEALs, conduct training exercises there. The governor’s orders instructed the Guard to ensure that Bastrop County residents’ “safety, constitutional rights, private property rights and civil liberties will not be infringed.”

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If that Were True, Why Not Make It Zero?

May 5, 2015 Buck Banks

You can make the unemployment rate anything you want it to be.

— Ben Carson, quoted by the Washington Post, arguing that politicians and a biased media convince us the economy is better than it actually is.

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May 5, 2015May 16, 2015 Pensito Editors

The National Memo: Jeb Planned to Avoid Vietnam by Filing As a Conscientious Objector
Daily Kos: Politico Admits Media Is ‘Primed to Take Down Hillary Clinton’
Washington Post: One of Jeb Bush’s Top Advisers on Israel: George W. Bush
Wonkwire: Stop Calling the Estate Tax a ‘Death Tax’
Politico: Liberals, Conservatives Unite vs. NSA spying
Huffington Post: Why Carly Fiorina Won’t Survive The GOP Presidential Primary
Matthew Yglesias: The “Decline” of Marriage Isn’t a Problem

Day: May 5, 2015

Huckabee Declares His Candidacy — Good Luckabee!

Eight years later our debt has more than doubled, America’s leadership in the world has completely evaporated and the country is more polarized than ever in my lifetime.

— Mike Huckabee, quoted by Yahoo News, formally announcing his presidential bid.

The Price of Ducks

$415,000

So, Walker Doesn’t Deal In Hypotheticals

That’s a hypothetical question in the past.

— Gov. Scott Walker (R), quoted by Bloomberg, refusing to say whether he would have supported federal loans to General Motors and Chrysler to get through their 2009 bankruptcies.

State of Paranoia

Expel Texas: Gov. Abbott Musters State Guard in Apparent Move to Confront U.S. Troops, Provoke War with United States

If that Were True, Why Not Make It Zero?

You can make the unemployment rate anything you want it to be.

— Ben Carson, quoted by the Washington Post, arguing that politicians and a biased media convince us the economy is better than it actually is.

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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%