June 16, 2011 - Pensito

Old McDonald Gives Gay Marriage Opponents an Earful

June 16, 2011 Buck Banks

You get to the point where you evolve in your life where everything isn’t black and white, good and bad, and you try to do the right thing. You might not like that. You might be very cynical about that. Well, fuck it, I don’t care what you think. I’m trying to do the right thing. I’m tired of Republican-Democrat politics. They can take the job and shove it. I come from a blue-collar background. I’m trying to do the right thing and that’s where I’m going with this.

— Sen. Roy McDonald, one of a handful of Republicans bucking their own party who will vote to legalize gay marriage in New York state, expressing his displeasure with being pushed around by gay marriage opponents.

Rick Perry: Something Like Bush or Nothing Like Bush?

June 16, 2011 Buck Banks

Certainly, you are not going to see a great philosophical difference between Rick Perry and George Bush.

— Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), quoted by the Lubbock Avalanche Journal, in December 2000. As Perry mulls a presidential bid, Dan Amira notes it’s “hard to claim you’re nothing like Bush after saying something like that.”

— Joe Klein, writing in Time magazine.

Republicans’ 2008 Honeymoon with Voters Is Waaay Over

June 16, 2011 Buck Banks

18%

Is Congress’ approval rating, down four points from last month; it’s lowest since March 2010 (healthcare month), according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. The GOP’s fav/unfav is 30% to 44%, compared with the Democratic Party’s 38% to 39% score. Only 10% of respondents have a “great deal” or “quite a bit” of confidence in Congress, and majorities of ALL respondents (including Republicans) believe the House GOP has not brought much change. And the number thinking the GOP proposal to overhaul Medicare is a bad idea has increased nine points since April to 31%; just 22% believe it’s a good idea.

Looks like Tony Weiner is saying goodbye.
We’ll all recall him as a real stand-up guy.
Because of his sexting mess,
He’s resigning from Congress,
But we’ll always have the twitpics to remember him by.

Day: June 16, 2011

Old McDonald Gives Gay Marriage Opponents an Earful

— Sen. Roy McDonald, one of a handful of Republicans bucking their own party who will vote to legalize gay marriage in New York state, expressing his displeasure with being pushed around by gay marriage opponents.

Rick Perry: Something Like Bush or Nothing Like Bush?

Certainly, you are not going to see a great philosophical difference between Rick Perry and George Bush.

— Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), quoted by the Lubbock Avalanche Journal, in December 2000. As Perry mulls a presidential bid, Dan Amira notes it’s “hard to claim you’re nothing like Bush after saying something like that.”

Romney a Remnant of Old GOP

There is a jittery sense among Republican savants that Romney is a straw man, ready to be toppled, because the party has changed irrevocably. It has traded in country-club aristocracy for pitchfork populism.

— Joe Klein, writing in Time magazine.

Republicans’ 2008 Honeymoon with Voters Is Waaay Over

18%

A Thousand Words

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“They’ve invested heavily in AI labs. They’ve invested heavily in data centers. So, the first family has a financial stake in this industry, and as a result, the president of the United States is compromised.”

— “Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) on Monday said President Trump will likely not heed calls from technology leaders to implement guardrails on the development of artificial intelligence because of his family’s investments in the industry,” NewsNation reports.

— Jane Haman

“We’re working through some political issues in Israel. I think we agree with them on the end state. They just have a crazy election, and that makes them a little irrational in certain regards.”

— Jared Kushner, quoted by CBS News, on the lack of progress in Gaza.

Numerati

470

Reuters has documented at least 470 targets of retribution under Trump’s leadership – from federal employees and prosecutors to universities and media outlets. The list illuminates the sweeping effort by the president and his administration to punish dissent and reshape the government.

$184 million

50%

38%

31%