March 30, 2010 - Pensito

On CNN’s Larry King Live last night, King interviewed two top tea baggers, Dana Loesch and Wayne Allyn Root. When asked about health-care reform, Loesch and Root criticized the new law as being “unprecedented” and “unconstitutional.” King made the point that Social Security is mandatory, and asked if tea baggers would “do away with” it,too. “I would, yes,” said Loesch. Root said he’d rather invest his retirement money.

KING: Would anyone turn away Social Security now? Would you do away with it?

LOESCH: I would, yes.

KING: You would?

LOESCH: Yes, absolutely.

KING: Would do you away with it, Wayne?

ROOT: I’d certainly like to. At best, I do away with it because I could find better ways to spend and save my own $15,000 a year.

Right Wing Propagandists Caught on Tape: Obama Is a Socialist, Muslim Fascist Who’s Coming for Your Guns

March 30, 2010 Jon Ponder

Verbatim

March 30, 2010 Buck Banks

These people could be anybody. I wouldn’t put it past the Democrats to plant somebody there. They’re trying to label the tea party, but I’ve never seen any racial slurs.

— Dale Robertson, self-proclaimed founder of the Tea Party, quoted by the Washington Times. The only problem? The Washington Independent caught Robertson at a Tea Party rally last month holding a sign with a racial slur.

Half Would Support an Openly Gay POTUS

March 30, 2010 Buck Banks

A new poll by 60 Minutes and Vanity Fair found that 50 percent of respondents would support an openly gay person as the president of the United States, while 44 percent would oppose it. This was all in the context of the impending repeal of the U.S. military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy.

Fifty-five percent to 40 percent would support a gay Supreme Court justice, and 56 percent would support a gay secretary of state, over 39 percent opposed.

A full 61 percent would support a gay commissioner of baseball to 32 percent opposed.

The most support was expressed for a gay Super Bowl quarterback — 62 percent to 29 percent.

Day: March 30, 2010

Tea Bag Leader: I ‘Absolutely’ Would Abolish Social Security

Right Wing Propagandists Caught on Tape: Obama Is a Socialist, Muslim Fascist Who’s Coming for Your Guns

Verbatim

These people could be anybody. I wouldn’t put it past the Democrats to plant somebody there. They’re trying to label the tea party, but I’ve never seen any racial slurs.

— Dale Robertson, self-proclaimed founder of the Tea Party, quoted by the Washington Times. The only problem? The Washington Independent caught Robertson at a Tea Party rally last month holding a sign with a racial slur.

Half Would Support an Openly Gay POTUS

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“One woman at a rally in New Jersey told me last week that she was ‘nauseously optimistic.’ That may capture a lot of people’s last-minute jitters.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by Axios, on what Democrats feel ahead of the midterm elections.

“I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace’s bathroom.”

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by The Wrap.

“Boy, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. It feels like a real desperation play to me, because it has got zero basis in the law.”

— Republican election law expert Ben Ginsberg, quoted by Politico, on the Trump administration’s effort to invalidate Alaska’s election results.

Numerati

3,824

$1.4 billion

-35 points

31%

63% to 38%

KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”