Day: June 29, 2010
Verbatim
They’re snuffing out the America that I grew up in. Right now, we’ve got more Americans engaged in their government than at any time in our history. There’s a political rebellion brewing, and I don’t think we’ve seen anything like it since 1776.
— House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), in an interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, on why Democrats are in political trouble.
CA Sen: Boxer Has 40 Hollywood Donors For Every One of Fiorina’s
A consensus is forming in California that, whether she knows it or not, U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina is just a nuisance candidate who’s seen by the GOP elite as a loser with no chance of defeating Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer in November, but who can force the senator to spend millions of dollars unnecessarily on television advertising.
The entertainment industry is hardly a bastion of conservatives, but there are a few, and so a new report on donations by people in the industry to the senatorial campaigns does provide insight into how high-profile right wingers view Fiorina:
Boxer, who is seeking a fourth six-year term following 10 years in the House, has more than 40 Hollywood donors [see the list] for every one of Fiorina’s.
Among Boxer’s supporters are dozens of well-known industry figures, including Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Barbra Streisand, Robin Williams, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kevin Kline, Sally Field, Christopher Guest, Don Henley, Bob Iger, Ron Meyer, Peter Chernin and J.J. Abrams.
A review of the latest FEC records showed only two donations for ex-Hewlett-Packard CEO Fiorina from people in entertainment, and not the biggest of names — Mindy Stearns (“Bridezillas”) and James A. McIlwain, a Telemundo ad sales director.
Mindy Stearns? A Telemundo sales guy?
So much for “Carly-forina.”
BP Made $58.5 Bil in Net Profits over Past Three Years But Spent Zero Dollars on Spill Response Research
From MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show last night:
MADDOW: Remember, this is how much BP made in profits over the last three years. Ding, ding, ding $58.5 billion with a B. This is how much they spent on researching safer ways to drill over a three-year period $29 million. And this is how much they spent on oil spill response research. Zero dollars. BP has spent zero dollars researching how to respond to an oil spill. Aren`t you glad BP is in charge of the oil spill response in the gulf right now?
