Election 2016 Archives - Page 16 of 17

Insights Into Hillary Clinton’s Management Style

November 25, 2014 Buck Banks

Sometimes she’d be in those meetings and I’d think, ‘Please don’t let her yell at me.’

— Clinton White House aide Joan Baggett, quoted in a newly-released Miller Center oral history, about Hillary Clinton.

That’s No Platform!

November 18, 2014 Buck Banks

Republicans have never been known as environmentalists
As much as they have as bigots, bastards and bigamists.
But when it comes to climate change,
They’re starting to sound deranged,
Standing in line and chanting, “I am not a scientist!”

W. Says He’ll Still Like Bill ‘When Jeb Beats Hillary’

November 13, 2014November 13, 2014 Buck Banks

Bill and I are going to have to have some interesting things to talk about. Look, I’ll still like him when Jeb beats Hillary.

— Former President George W. Bush, quoted by Business Insider, on his brother’s potential 2016 presidential campaign.

George W. Says Odds Are Even Jeb Bush Will Run for President

November 10, 2014 Buck Banks

50-50

Odds that Jeb Bush (R) will run for president in 2016, according to his brother former President George W. Bush, The Hill reports.

Ryan Doesn’t Want to Spend His Adult Life in Congress

November 7, 2014 Buck Banks

No. God, no. I’ve already been there 16 years. I don’t want to be a career guy. Even though I’ve been there a long time, where you could already say that… It’s just, I don’t want to spend my adult life in Congress.

— Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), quoted by National Journal, on being in Congress another ten years.

Midterms Don’t Predict What 2016 Will Bring

November 6, 2014 Buck Banks

Historically, midterm results, which are typically unfavorable to the president’s party, tell us relatively little about the coming presidential election… The record shows that the president’s party can rebound from major losses to win at the polls in two years. Bill Clinton, for instance, bounced back from the 1994 Republican landslide to easily win re-election in 1996. Similarly, President Obama, whose party suffered major losses in 2010, went on to defeat Mitt Romney in 2012, and George Bush won the 1988 election after Republicans suffered major losses in 1986, President Reagan’s sixth year in office.

— Brendan Nyhan writes in the New York Times.

Republican Senate Takeover Not About Governing — It’s About Winning in 2016

October 30, 2014 Buck Banks

It’s not so much about what could be passed but setting the agenda and debate for the next presidential race.

— Rep. Steve King (R-IA), quoted by the Daily Beast, on the advantage of the GOP taking control of the U.S. Senate.

Why Hillary Clinton Is Bad at Politics, According to Reince Priebus

October 28, 2014 Buck Banks

You look at her book rollout — it was a disaster. She talks off the cuff; it doesn’t work. She makes one mistake after the next.

— RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, quoted by The Hill, arguing that Hillary Clinton isn’t good at politics.

Best-Paid Part-Time Job Ever

October 20, 2014 Buck Banks

$510,552

Amount New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s (R) wife, Mary Pat, who works part-time on Wall Street, earned in 2013, according to new tax filings. She received $475,854 for her job as a director at Angelo, Gordon & Co. and $34,698 from Cantor Fitzgerald, the AP reports.

Christie Might Run for Prez to Get Secret Service to Babysit His Daughter

October 17, 2014 Buck Banks

Sometimes she’d be in those meetings and I’d think, ‘Please don’t let her yell at me.’

— Clinton White House aide Joan Baggett, quoted in a newly-released Miller Center oral history, about Hillary Clinton.

Bill and I are going to have to have some interesting things to talk about. Look, I’ll still like him when Jeb beats Hillary.

— Former President George W. Bush, quoted by Business Insider, on his brother’s potential 2016 presidential campaign.

50-50

Odds that Jeb Bush (R) will run for president in 2016, according to his brother former President George W. Bush, The Hill reports.

No. God, no. I’ve already been there 16 years. I don’t want to be a career guy. Even though I’ve been there a long time, where you could already say that… It’s just, I don’t want to spend my adult life in Congress.

— Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), quoted by National Journal, on being in Congress another ten years.

— Brendan Nyhan writes in the New York Times.

It’s not so much about what could be passed but setting the agenda and debate for the next presidential race.

— Rep. Steve King (R-IA), quoted by the Daily Beast, on the advantage of the GOP taking control of the U.S. Senate.

You look at her book rollout — it was a disaster. She talks off the cuff; it doesn’t work. She makes one mistake after the next.

— RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, quoted by The Hill, arguing that Hillary Clinton isn’t good at politics.

$510,552

Amount New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s (R) wife, Mary Pat, who works part-time on Wall Street, earned in 2013, according to new tax filings. She received $475,854 for her job as a director at Angelo, Gordon & Co. and $34,698 from Cantor Fitzgerald, the AP reports.

By the way, one of the biggest motivating factors for me actually considering this is to have 24-hour surveillance on my daughter. It would be great.

— Gov. Chris Christie, quoted by Business Insider, on why he might want to run for president.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“In America today‚ 2024, women have fewer rights than their mothers or their grandmothers had, because of Donald Trump. I don’t think we’re going to let him get away with it, do you?”

— President Biden at a campaign stop in Tampa, reported by Tampa Bay Times.

“Mr. Blanche, you’re losing all credibility with this court.”

— Judge Juan Merchan, quoted by NBC News, to Donald Trump’s lawyer in the “hush money” criminal trial.

— Miami Herald

“We care more about the safety of our staff than a name attached to an article.”

— Rep. Tony Gonzalez (R-TX), on CNN.

Numerati

250,000

77%

A new Siena poll finds that by a 54% to 30% margin, New Yorkers say Donald Trump’s “hush money” trial is “legitimate” — the view of 77% of Democrats and 44% of independents — rather than a “witch hunt,” the view of 66% of Republicans.

51% to 48%

300 million

Spotify said Taylor Swift’s new album was the first to have over 300 million streams in a single day on Friday.

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