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In the wake of the Edward Snowden leaks fuss,
Obama says he wants a government we can trust.
‘Cause they only stopped one plot,
Yeah really, that’s all they got
For all those years the NSA was spying on us.

Gates Tells All About Warning Not to Tell All In His Tell-All Memoir

January 8, 2014 Buck Banks

I was offended by his suspicion that any of us would ever write about such sensitive matters.

— Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in his tell-all book, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War, about President Obama’s warning to “those of you writing your memoirs.”

Jarrett Clarifies her White House Role

December 19, 2013 Buck Banks

I’m not the shadow chief of staff.

— Valerie Jarrett, quoted by the Wall Street Journal, on her personal relationship with President Obama while working as his adviser.

Looking Ahead at Obama’s Next Three Years

December 18, 2013 Buck Banks

The inescapable reality of the remainder of the Obama presidency is that he never again will have the congressional votes to pass liberal legislation. That leaves the president with stark choices: Does he continue to make speeches into the wind about economic inequality knowing that nothing will change during the next three years? Or does he embark on an experimental effort to find non-traditional backdoor methods to spark the economy? Does he go with partisan talking points or the quest to find Republican partners?

— Walter Shapiro, writing in the American Prospect.

Second term Syndrome Similar for Obama and Bush

December 11, 2013 Buck Banks

When you dent a president on honesty and straightforwardness, you have done major damage that can be difficult and time-consuming to repair.

— GOP pollster Bill McInturf, quoted by the Wall Street Journal, noting “a clear parallel to sentiment toward President George W. Bush at the same point in his second term.”

No More PDAs!

December 10, 2013 Buck Banks

A bro-hug put an end to Charlie Crist’s Senate ambitions
And a post-Sandy clinch might cost Chris Christie the nomination.
Be that as it may,
Obama outdid himself today.
Shaking hands with a Castro — now THAT’s an abomination!

Maybe it was the water that they drink at Harvard.

— Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), quoted by the New York Observer, on why President Barack Obama thought he could work with what Rangel calls the “mean, racist people” in the Tea Party.

33.3 million

Number of TV viewers who watched the President’s fifth State of the Union address across 13 networks, down from 33.5 million viewers last year. It was the lowest audience for the State of the Union since Bill Clinton delivered the address in 2000, TV Newser reported. Tweet

I’m past impeachment. It’s time to arrest and hang him high.

— Florida House candidate Joshua Black (R), quoted by the Tampa Bay Times, saying President Obama should be hanged for war crimes.

I have no desire to be one of those presidents who are just on the list — you see their pictures lined up on the wall. I really want to be a president who makes a difference.

— President Obama, in an interview with The New Yorker.

I was offended by his suspicion that any of us would ever write about such sensitive matters.

— Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in his tell-all book, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War, about President Obama’s warning to “those of you writing your memoirs.”

I’m not the shadow chief of staff.

— Valerie Jarrett, quoted by the Wall Street Journal, on her personal relationship with President Obama while working as his adviser.

— Walter Shapiro, writing in the American Prospect.

When you dent a president on honesty and straightforwardness, you have done major damage that can be difficult and time-consuming to repair.

— GOP pollster Bill McInturf, quoted by the Wall Street Journal, noting “a clear parallel to sentiment toward President George W. Bush at the same point in his second term.”

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

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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%

Number of TV viewers who watched the President’s fifth State of the Union address across 13 networks, down from 33.5 million viewers last year. It was the lowest audience for the State of the Union since Bill Clinton delivered the address in 2000, TV Newser reported.

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