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Democrats — Curb Your Self-Righteousness

February 8, 2022 Buck Banks

“We’re addicted to telling other people what to think. You can’t really win many elections if you’re that self-righteous.”

— Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN), in an interview with Nashville Scene, on what Democrats need to do to win.

Welcome to the Age of ‘Negative Partisanship’

February 5, 2020 Buck Banks

“We are living in an era of what political scientists describe as ‘strong partisanship and weak parties’ — or, alternatively, as ‘negative partisanship.’ The electorate is polarized into opposing camps, but their emotional impetus is driven by hostility to the other party rather than trust in their own. … The Republican Party’s solution to this predicament has been to fashion itself as a cult of personality devoted to Donald Trump. The Democratic Party’s solution has been a series of technocratic fixes intended to increase its own legitimacy. But the Iowa caucus is the latest indication that the effort is collapsing.”

— Jonathan Chait

The Iowa Caucases Are Dead

February 4, 2020 Buck Banks

“This fiasco means the end of the caucuses as a significant American political event. The rest of the country was already losing patience with Iowa anyway and this cooks Iowa’s goose. Frankly, it should, The real winner tonight was Donald Trump, who got to watch his opponents wallow in a mess. A lot of good Democratic candidates and people who fought their hearts out here for … nothing.”

— David Yepsen quoted by Politico

DNC Is Pissing Off the Youth

May 7, 2019 Buck Banks

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The Atlantic: “The youths in the Democratic Party are angry. Sixty-eight chapters of the College Democrats are urging voters not to donate to the party’s congressional-campaign arm after it instituted a new policy to protect incumbents from primary challenges.”

Two Types of Democrats

November 2, 2017 Buck Banks

“There are two types of Democrats. There are killers, and there are whiners. Unfortunately, we have too many of the latter and not enough of the former.”

— David Krone, Harry Reid’s former chief of staff, quoted by the New York Times.

Maybe There Is a Democratic Backlash Against Dems Who Voted Against Gun Control

April 22, 2013April 22, 2013 Buck Banks

So I’ll have some advice for my friends in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles: Just say no to the Democrats who said no on background checks.

— Former Obama White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley (D), writing in the Washington Post, about how Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) “betrayed me on gun control.”

President Obama’s Nine Worst Surrogates

May 22, 2012 Buck Banks

Courtesy of Buzzfeed: With allies like these, who needs Republicans?

Harold Ford? Really?!?!

Tag: Democratic Circular Firing Squad

Democrats — Curb Your Self-Righteousness

“We’re addicted to telling other people what to think. You can’t really win many elections if you’re that self-righteous.”

— Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN), in an interview with Nashville Scene, on what Democrats need to do to win.

Welcome to the Age of ‘Negative Partisanship’

— Jonathan Chait

The Iowa Caucases Are Dead

— David Yepsen quoted by Politico

DNC Is Pissing Off the Youth

68

The Atlantic: “The youths in the Democratic Party are angry. Sixty-eight chapters of the College Democrats are urging voters not to donate to the party’s congressional-campaign arm after it instituted a new policy to protect incumbents from primary challenges.”

Two Types of Democrats

“There are two types of Democrats. There are killers, and there are whiners. Unfortunately, we have too many of the latter and not enough of the former.”

— David Krone, Harry Reid’s former chief of staff, quoted by the New York Times.

Maybe There Is a Democratic Backlash Against Dems Who Voted Against Gun Control

So I’ll have some advice for my friends in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles: Just say no to the Democrats who said no on background checks.

— Former Obama White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley (D), writing in the Washington Post, about how Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) “betrayed me on gun control.”

President Obama’s Nine Worst Surrogates

Poetic Justice

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared exasperated and sighed when a reporter asked President Trump about his plans to “take over” Gaza while meeting with the King of Jordan.

— Posted to X

The Senate voted 52 to 48 to confirm Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) joined with all Democrats to oppose her conformation.

— Washington Post

Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) introduced a new bill to rename Greenland — after the U.S. acquires it — to “Red, White and Blue Land.”

— Posted on X

“Trump’s tornado has changed the world in just a couple of weeks. Yesterday we were the heretics. Now we are the mainstream.”

— Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, quoted by the New York Times. at a gathering of far-right leaders whose slogan was “Make Europe Great Again.”

“I think this is the most serious constitutional crisis the country has faced, certainly since Watergate. The president is attempting to seize control of power, and for corrupt purposes.”

— Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) warned of an “assault on the Constitution” under President Donald Trump, ABC News reports.

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$30 billion a day

46%

A new Economist/YouGov Poll finds President Trump’s approval rating and personal popularity falling over the past two weeks. This week’s poll finds Americans are less likely to approve of Trump (46%) than to disapprove (48%), and less likely to view him favorably (46%) than unfavorably (52%).

71%

A new Marquette University poll found that 71% of respondents opposed renaming the Gulf of Mexico with only 29% saying they were in favor of the change.

3%

$500 million

“Almost $500 million in food aid is at risk of spoilage as it sits in ports, ships and warehouses after funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, was paused by the Trump administration,” CBS News reports.