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House GOP Down to Majority of One

May 8, 2024 Buck Banks

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“Rep. Tim Kennedy (D-NY) was sworn in on the House floor Monday, replacing the now-retired Rep. Brian Higgins (D-NY) and leaving Republicans with just a one-vote margin for any partisan vote,” The Hill reports.

Vengeance Is His

January 7, 2015 Buck Banks

Those who oppose Speaker Boehner come from the fringe,
And those who opposed him now have no right to whinge.
Because once they voted,
Their betrayal was noted,
And they set themselves up for Speaker Boehner’s revenge.

GOP House Leader Says He Doesn’t Recall Addressing Neo-Confederate Group

December 30, 2014January 13, 2015 Jon Ponder

Left: Former Republican pol and KKK Grand Wizard David Duke; right: GOP Rep. Steve Scalise, House Majority Leader — Former Republican pol and KKK Grand Wizard David Duke (right) called House Majority Whip Scalise (left) “a fine family man and a good person”

When House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., lost his seat in the Republican primary last summer, Rep. Peter Roskam, R- Ill., was next in line to move into the House leadership, joining House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California.

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Boehner, GOP to Spend at Least Half a Million Dollars to Defend Anti-Gay Law

April 20, 2011April 20, 2011 Jon Ponder

$520

Hourly rate charged to taxpayers by the law firm GOP House Speaker hired to defend the constitutionality of the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act. The House GOP claims that the legal fees will cap out at $500,000.

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House GOP Down to Majority of One

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“Rep. Tim Kennedy (D-NY) was sworn in on the House floor Monday, replacing the now-retired Rep. Brian Higgins (D-NY) and leaving Republicans with just a one-vote margin for any partisan vote,” The Hill reports.

Vengeance Is His

GOP House Leader Says He Doesn’t Recall Addressing Neo-Confederate Group

Boehner, GOP to Spend at Least Half a Million Dollars to Defend Anti-Gay Law

$520

Hourly rate charged to taxpayers by the law firm GOP House Speaker hired to defend the constitutionality of the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act. The House GOP claims that the legal fees will cap out at $500,000.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“He is the most dangerous person ever. I had suspicions when I talked to you about his mental decline and so forth, but now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is now the most dangerous person to this country. A fascist to the core.”

– Gen. Mark Milley, former Joint Chief of Staff under both Trump and Pres. Biden, quoted in veteran investigative reporter Bob Woodward’s book, War.

“Yes they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.”

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), accusing Democrats of creating Hurricane Helene for political purposes.

“Liberty in Georgia includes in its meaning, in its protections, and in its bundle of rights the power of a woman to control her own body, to decide what happens to it and in it, and to reject state interference with her healthcare choices.”

— Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney finding that Georgia’s six-week abortion law violates Georgia’s Constitution, reports the AP.

“Maybe we’ll pay off the $35 trillion US debt in crypto. I’ll write on a little piece of paper ‘$35 trillion crypto we have no debt.’ That’s what I like.”

— Donald Trump, floating a plan to address the federal budget deficit and demonstrating his deep understanding of the crypto marketplace.

“To my friends in Nebraska, that one electoral vote could be the difference between Harris being president and not, and she’s a disaster for Nebraska and the world.”

— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), quoted by Politico, on his trip to Nebraska to push for the state’s Republican leadership to change how it awards its electoral votes.

Numerati

49% to 46%

Latest results from the New York Times-Siena College poll giving Vice Pres. Kamala Harris a 3-point lead over Donald Trump. This is a noteworthy change in the NYT poll results that have generally favored Trump while other reputable pollsters have favored Harris.

254,000

“The pace of hiring picked up strongly in September and the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.1%, signs the economy had continued momentum in a month the Federal Reserve delivered its first interest-rate cut in four years,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

49% to 44%

A new Susquehanna poll finds Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump nationally among likely voters, 49% to 44%.

40 trillion

$55 million

Kamala Harris raised about $55 million in high-dollar events in California this weekend, a haul that pads her financial advantage over Donald Trump, Bloomberg reports.