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Democrats’ Message: We Have No Message!

January 29, 2015 Buck Banks

Our message cannot be a bunch of Democrats running around saying we have no message. That’s not a good message.

— Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY), quoted by the Washington Post.

— Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R), saying that he “is seriously considering running for president because he sees gaps in the field of likely Republican candidates, and that he doesn’t have a problem with being branded as bland or uncharismatic,” the AP reports.

Huckabee’s Finer Sensibilities Offended by Fox News’ ‘Trashy’ Women

January 28, 2015 Buck Banks

In the South, or in the Midwest, there in Iowa, you would not have people who would just throw the F-bomb or use gratuitous profanity in a professional setting. In New York, not only do the men do it, but the women. My gosh, this is worse than locker-room talk. As we would say in the South, that’s just trashy.”

— Mike Huckabee, saying that while in New York for his Fox News show, he experienced significant culture shock from all the “trashy” women swearing in a professional setting, Politico reports.

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

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.

While our partisan politics can be scary,
The most dangerous things are imaginary.
And though the campaign ain’t begun,
The candidates have started to run
In something they’re calling an invisible primary.

Dropkick Murphys Call on Walker to Stop Using Their Music

January 26, 2015 Buck Banks

Please stop using our music in any way … we literally hate you!!!

Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys, admonishing Gov. Scott Walker (R) to stop using their music for his political purposes, in a scathing tweet, The Washington Times reports.

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Jindal Says GOP Must Earn the Right to Govern

January 26, 2015 Buck Banks

I think the GOP needs to earn the right to be a governing party. We can’t just be the party of no. We have to be a party of solutions.

— Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, quoted by the Washington Post.

Bush Offers Donors a Price List

January 26, 2015 Buck Banks

$500,000

Amount Republican Jeb Bush is telling donors they they must raise by March 31 to join his “national executive committee,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “A pledge form for Mr. Bush’s newly formed Right to Rise political committee offers other levels of membership: donors who collect $250,000 by March 31 can join the ‘national committee,’ $100,000 to join the ‘state executive committee’ and $50,000 for the ‘state committee.’”

Chris Christie has Received 77 Diet Books

January 26, 2015 Buck Banks

77

Number of books about the topics of diet, exercise, bariatric surgery or self-help weight loss that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s (R) has received since he’s been in office. “The records show that gift-givers have seen fit to shower the governor with virtually every diet book, CD, DVD and weight loss kit available,” the Newark Star Ledger reports.

Our message cannot be a bunch of Democrats running around saying we have no message. That’s not a good message.

— Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY), quoted by the Washington Post.

The media is going to peg any prospective candidate with a tag. I’d rather have bland or uncharismatic than dumb or ignorant, or corrupt or any of the other things that they could label other would-be candidates out there, or old for that matter.

— Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R), saying that he “is seriously considering running for president because he sees gaps in the field of likely Republican candidates, and that he doesn’t have a problem with being branded as bland or uncharismatic,” the AP reports.

— Mike Huckabee, saying that while in New York for his Fox News show, he experienced significant culture shock from all the “trashy” women swearing in a professional setting, Politico reports.

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.

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.

Please stop using our music in any way … we literally hate you!!!

Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys, admonishing Gov. Scott Walker (R) to stop using their music for his political purposes, in a scathing tweet, The Washington Times reports. Tweet

I think the GOP needs to earn the right to be a governing party. We can’t just be the party of no. We have to be a party of solutions.

— Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, quoted by the Washington Post.

$500,000

77

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“There are a lot of Ukrainian drones in the air. It would be dangerous.”

— Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, quoted by the Associated Press, when President Trump asked him if he would accept Moscow as a venue for peace talks.

“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.

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%

Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys, admonishing Gov. Scott Walker (R) to stop using their music for his political purposes, in a scathing tweet, The Washington Times reports.

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