April 5, 2011 - Pensito

Gingrich Whines About Obama’s Ability to Raise Money

April 5, 2011 Buck Banks

Here’s a president who 18 months before the election is going to use his office to extort contributions on a scale we’ve never seen before. He’s in effect trying to create a Chicago-style machine for the whole country with a billion dollars.

— Newt Gingrich, quoted by CNN, in reaction to President Obama’s re-election campaign announcement.

GOP Could Be Headed for a Fall

April 5, 2011April 5, 2011 Buck Banks

Among the worries the party now has is that a government shutdown could get blamed on the GOP. Additionally, these party insiders believe that taking on entitlements, specifically Medicare, could jeopardize the party’s hold on the House, its strong chances of taking the Senate and the stronghold that the party has been established with older white voters — not coincidentally, Medicare recipients. … Part of what is happening is that there is a giant gap between the attitudes of Republican base voters and those who are swing voters.

— Political analyst Charlie Cook, on why the Republican Party could find itself headed for a train wreck in 2012.

Payback Time for Maine’s Expensive Mural

April 5, 2011 Buck Banks

$60,000

The amount the federal government wants back from Maine. The U.S. Department of Labor says Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) “violated the terms of a federal grant when he removed a labor-themed mural from a state office building last month,” the Kennebec Journal reports.

The Lover Governor

April 5, 2011May 22, 2014 Buck Banks

We may not appreciate Rick Scott’s antics,
But we admit he’s quite the romantic.
He knows what to do
To tell his wife “I love you” —
He gave her $62 million worth of Solantic!

Because Your Uterus Is Your Business

April 5, 2011April 5, 2011 Trish

We’ve been telling you how the Florida legislature, which is currently pushing through 18 different bills to restrict abortion, is making women’s uteruses their business. And how State Rep. Scott Randolph (D-Orlando) pointed out that if his wife’s uterus were incorporated, the big-business fat cats in the legislature would leave it alone (and, I might add, give it tax breaks). Republicans were so upset at Randolph’s casual use of the correct name for his wife’s lady parts that they formally scolded him, citing the delicate ears of legislative pages.

Randolph recently appeared on Rachel Maddow’s show, and she was particularly taken with the new web site, www.incorporatemyuterus.com, which seeks to establish exactly whose business a woman’s uterus is. The site even offers articles of incorporation. Before you visit, be thinking of the official name for your incorporated uterus, as you will need to supply it on the form.

InTrade Predicts Obama Re-Election by 59%

April 5, 2011 Buck Banks

Day: April 5, 2011

Gingrich Whines About Obama’s Ability to Raise Money

Here’s a president who 18 months before the election is going to use his office to extort contributions on a scale we’ve never seen before. He’s in effect trying to create a Chicago-style machine for the whole country with a billion dollars.

— Newt Gingrich, quoted by CNN, in reaction to President Obama’s re-election campaign announcement.

GOP Could Be Headed for a Fall

— Political analyst Charlie Cook, on why the Republican Party could find itself headed for a train wreck in 2012.

Payback Time for Maine’s Expensive Mural

$60,000

The amount the federal government wants back from Maine. The U.S. Department of Labor says Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) “violated the terms of a federal grant when he removed a labor-themed mural from a state office building last month,” the Kennebec Journal reports.

The Lover Governor

Because Your Uterus Is Your Business

InTrade Predicts Obama Re-Election by 59%

59%

Odds that President Obama will win re-election, according to InTrade.

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%).”