August 2, 2010 - Pensito

$531,378.

That’s the amount of money Meg Whitman spent per day on her gubernatorial campaign from May 23 to June 30.

Just to put that in some perspective: Democrat Jerry Brown has spend a little more than $377,000 total since Jan. 1. Though to be fair, labor groups did spend about $4 million on Brown’s behalf from the end of May through June.

Whitman has now spent $99.7 million on her race since she first formed an exploratory committee in 2009.

That’s right. Meg Whitman is spending more per day than Jerry Brown’s campaign has spent period.

G.O.-Tea Party on the Run: RNC Cancels Fundraiser with Racist Provocateur Breitbart

August 2, 2010August 2, 2010 Jon Ponder

I think it’s safe to say the RNC is rescheduling its Breitbart fundraiser for either the 12th of Never or possibly the 14th of Not-Gonna-Happen.

Yesterday I described the Brieitbart rules of political warfare as simple: If your side is on offense, you are winning. If you’re on defense, you’re losing. I suggested that recent events — a Fox News admission that its deceptive coverage of the Shirley Sherrod scandal was inept, the Friday night announcement of the resignation of Republican astroturfer Mark “Colored People” Williams from Tea Party Express and the media silence of tea bagger candidates Rand Paul and Sharron Angle — were all signs of the GO-Tea Party’s new defensive crouch. Now comes this.

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Daily Show Destroys Haters’ Bizarre Claim That Hitler, Top Nazis Were Gay

August 2, 2010 Jon Ponder

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c

Gay Reichs

www.thedailyshow.com

Daily Show Full Episodes

Political Humor

Tea Party

HuffPost:

On last night’s Daily Show, Jason Jones made a complete mockery out of anti-gay wingnut Scott Lively and his theory that Adolf Hitler and the Nazis were gay.

After Lively explains that the Nazis murdered homosexuals to cover up the fact that they, too, were secretly gay, Jones asks: “So that which you hate the most, you secretly are?”

With a special appearance by our own Corey Johnson, and friends David Mixner, Dan Choi, Michael Crawford, and Jamie McGonnigal.

Day: August 2, 2010

CA Gov: Whitman Has Spent Nearly $100 Mil – $500k Per Day – to Buy Governor’s Office

G.O.-Tea Party on the Run: RNC Cancels Fundraiser with Racist Provocateur Breitbart

Daily Show Destroys Haters’ Bizarre Claim That Hitler, Top Nazis Were Gay

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%).”