March 1, 2011 - Pensito

Beltway Media Finally Musters Outrage – Over Rep. Issa Spokesman Leaking Reporters’ Emails to an Author

March 1, 2011March 1, 2011 Jon Ponder

George Bush’s obviously false rationale for invading Iraq didn’t do it. Neither did the revelation that Bush senior staffers, including Vice Pres. Cheney and National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice, wrote a torture manual for the CIA — or that Cheney, Karl Rove and others deliberately betrayed a covert CIA program tracking the black market for weapons of mass destruction.

“Death panels” didn’t do it. The fakery of the astroturfed tea party mobs didn’t do it. Nor has the increasingly embarrassing presence of the Fox News cuckoo bird hatchling befouling the media elites’ well-feathered nest.

In fact, you’d have to go back to the Chandra Levy scandal in 2001, — in which Democratic Rep. Gary Condit was tried and convicted (falsely, of course) by the Beltway media in the murder of Levy, a young congressional intern — to find the last time the bewigged media dandies in the capitol shook off their collective torpor … until today:

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Verbatim

March 1, 2011 Buck Banks

I hope today, all of you feel free to make yourselves at home. For those of you with a particular interest in the next election, I don’t mean that literally.”

— President Obama. The Wall Street Journal reported that When Obama gestured toward potential presidential rival Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R), the room erupted in laughter.

How Well Do You Know Your Raving Lunatics?

March 1, 2011March 1, 2011 Buck Banks

The Guardian has a hilarious and surprisingly difficult (I scored four out of 10) test to see if you can tell which of 10 saliva-flecked utterances were made by Muammar Gaddafi and which were made by Charlie Sheen. Check it out here.

Verbatim

March 1, 2011 Buck Banks

This report will make us look like jackasses.

— Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), quoted by the Washington Post, on a forthcoming GAO report showing significant duplication and overlap in federal agencies.

N.J. Lawmaker Beats IBM’s Watson at ‘Jeopardy!’

March 1, 2011 Buck Banks

$2,400

Amount by which U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ), a human rocket scientist, beat IBM’s super computer Watson at “Jeopardy!” last night. Final score: $8,600 to $6,200.

Texas-Size Asshole

March 1, 2011May 22, 2014 Buck Banks

Now Governor Rick Perry of Texas
Don’t seem to know where Juarez is.
While citing disorder
Down below the border
He just demonstrated what an ass he is.

Even Bigger Majority Sides with Public Unions

March 1, 2011March 1, 2011 Buck Banks

60% to 33%

Majority of Americans who “say they oppose efforts to weaken the collective bargaining rights of public employee unions and are also against cutting the pay or benefits of public workers to reduce state budget deficits.” While a slim majority of Republicans favored taking away some bargaining rights, they were outnumbered by large majorities of Democrats and independents who said they opposed weakening them. Those surveyed said they opposed, 56% to 37%, cutting the pay or benefits of public employees to reduce deficits, breaking down along similar party lines.” Key finding: 61% of those polled — including just over half of Republicans — said they thought the salaries and benefits of most public employees were either “about right” or “too low” for the work they do, despite rhetoric that they are overpaid or have generous benefits, according to a new New York Times/CBS News poll.

Majority backs Unions, Not Gov. Walker

March 1, 2011 Buck Banks

42%

Say they back Wisconsin’s public employee unions rather than Gov. Scott Walker (R) (31%) in their continuing dispute over collective bargaining rights, according to a new Pew Research poll.

Day: March 1, 2011

Beltway Media Finally Musters Outrage – Over Rep. Issa Spokesman Leaking Reporters’ Emails to an Author

Verbatim

I hope today, all of you feel free to make yourselves at home. For those of you with a particular interest in the next election, I don’t mean that literally.”

— President Obama. The Wall Street Journal reported that When Obama gestured toward potential presidential rival Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R), the room erupted in laughter.

How Well Do You Know Your Raving Lunatics?

Verbatim

This report will make us look like jackasses.

— Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), quoted by the Washington Post, on a forthcoming GAO report showing significant duplication and overlap in federal agencies.

N.J. Lawmaker Beats IBM’s Watson at ‘Jeopardy!’

$2,400

Amount by which U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ), a human rocket scientist, beat IBM’s super computer Watson at “Jeopardy!” last night. Final score: $8,600 to $6,200.

Texas-Size Asshole

Even Bigger Majority Sides with Public Unions

60% to 33%

Majority backs Unions, Not Gov. Walker

42%

Say they back Wisconsin’s public employee unions rather than Gov. Scott Walker (R) (31%) in their continuing dispute over collective bargaining rights, according to a new Pew Research poll.

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%).”