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Boehner Nails Cruz

March 3, 2021 Buck Banks

“There is nothing more dangerous than a reckless asshole who thinks he is smarter than everyone else.”

— Former House Speaker John Boehner, describing Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in his new book, On the House.

An Honest Memoir

May 22, 2014May 23, 2014 Buck Banks

A pre-campaign memoir is seen as one measure
Of how a candidate would perform as a leader.
But I’m with Mike Murphy
Who’s hoping that someday
Someone will write “Screw Iowa and New Hampshire.”

Gates Plumbs Depths of Thesaurus to Describe Congress

January 8, 2014January 9, 2014 Buck Banks

Congress is best viewed from a distance — the farther the better — because up close, it is truly ugly. I saw most of Congress as uncivil, incompetent at fulfilling their basic constitutional responsibilities (such as timely appropriations), micromanagerial, parochial, hypocritical, egotistical, thin-skinned and prone to put self (and re-election) before country.

— Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in his new book, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War.

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.”

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Boehner Nails Cruz

“There is nothing more dangerous than a reckless asshole who thinks he is smarter than everyone else.”

— Former House Speaker John Boehner, describing Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in his new book, On the House.

An Honest Memoir

Gates Plumbs Depths of Thesaurus to Describe Congress

— Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in his new book, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War.

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

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.”

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

— Rick Wilson

— Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) on the “resign or be fired” ultimatum from the GOP’s Freedom Caucus just 174 days into his tenure as sp[eaker, reported by Punchbowl News.

“Trump’s head slowly dropped, his eyes closed. It jerked back upward. He adjusts himself. Then, his head droops again. He straightens up, leaning back. His head droops for a third time, he shakes his shoulders. Eyes closed still. His head drops. Finally, he pops his eyes open.”

— Law360 reports from the second day of Donald Trump’s “hush money” criminal trial.

— Jonathan Last

“He’s f**king crazy! The press often will ask me if I think Donald Trump is crazy. And I’ll say it this way: I don’t think he’s so crazy that you could put him in a mental institution. But I think if he were in one, he ain’t getting out!”

— New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R), quoted by the Associated Press two years ago. Sununu is now backing Trump for president.

Numerati

$71.1 million to $45.2 million

56% to 37%

270,000

50 of 96

New York Times: “Of the 96 possible jurors brought into the room, more than 50 raised their hands to say they couldn’t be fair. They were immediately excused.”

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