August 2011 - Pensito

Cheney, Not Bush, Was President and Now Fears War Criminal Charges

August 31, 2011 Buck Banks

I can’t speak to the psychosomatic or the genetic problems with heart attacks or whatever, but I can speak to power. He [Dick Cheney] wanted desperately to be president of the United States … he knew the Texas governor was not steeped in anything but baseball, so he knew he was going to be president and I think he got his dream. He was president for all practical purposes for the first term of the Bush administration.

— Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, says Dick Cheney “fears being tried as a war criminal,” ABC News reports.

O’Donnell is No Dickens

August 31, 2011 Buck Banks

2,000

Copies of her book, “Troublemaker,” that Christine O’Donnell has sold in a two-week-long national book tour.

Black Lawmaker Calls Tea Party Racist

August 31, 2011August 31, 2011 Buck Banks

Some of these folks in Congress right now would love to see us as second-class citizens. Some of them in Congress right now with this Tea Party movement would love to see you and me … hanging on a tree.

— Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN), an influential member of the Congressional Black Caucus leadership, asserting that Tea Party-aligned lawmakers hold racist views, the Huffington Post reports.

Can We Write Cheney’s Epitaph Now? Please?

August 31, 2011 Buck Banks

No comment.

— Former vice president Dick Cheney, when asked by USA Today what he’d like his epitaph to read. When asked if he wants his epitaph to read, “No comment,” Cheney replied, “No comment, sure.”

Report: GOP-Fox Mouthpiece Bill O’Reilly Bribed Police to Investigate Wife’s Alleged Affair with a Cop

August 31, 2011August 31, 2011 Jon Ponder

screenshot-gawker-oreilly As a leading Republican Party propagandist, Bill O’Reilly often holds himself up as an arbiter of “family values.” In 2004, of course, O’Reilly and his employer settled a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by a former Fox employee for an undisclosed sum. Now Gawker is reporting that O’Reilly is involved in what ultimately may become a much bigger scandal:

Last summer, Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly came to believe that his wife was romantically involved with another man. Not just any man, but a police detective in the Long Island community they call home. So O’Reilly did what any concerned husband would do: He pulled strings to get the police department’s internal affairs unit to investigate one of their own for messing with the wrong man’s lady.

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The Feeling’s Gone

August 31, 2011May 22, 2014 Buck Banks

As the pundits parse out who’s dumb and who’s dumber,
Some say that it’s Perry; some say it’s Obama.
But as the debate devolves
And the discourse dissolves,
We, the people, just get number and number.

Good Hype, Irene …

August 30, 2011May 22, 2014 Buck Banks

We all know that hurricanes can be mean,
But that doesn’t excuse the hype ’round Irene.
From reporters in wet slickers
To bombastic news tickers,
We all suffered from that post-traumatic Katrina meme.

Perry Compares His Brain with Karl Rove’s

August 30, 2011 Buck Banks

My brain is like a chicken pot pie. His is like a refrigerator that is all very organized — pickles here, salad there.

— Rick Perry, quoted by Politico, comparing himself to Karl Rove in 1994.

Obama’s Uncle Arrested

August 30, 2011 Buck Banks

I think I will call the White House.

— What President Obama’s uncle said when asked by police if he wanted to make a phone after being charged with drunk driving in Massachusetts. He is being held by immigration officials, the AP reports.

McCarthy Offers Romney Some Campaign Advice

August 30, 2011 Buck Banks

He needs to stop staying in hotels and start staying with volunteers at every campaign stop. His job should be to take out the trash every day, and if that bag breaks, he needs to clean it up.

Month: August 2011

Cheney, Not Bush, Was President and Now Fears War Criminal Charges

— Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, says Dick Cheney “fears being tried as a war criminal,” ABC News reports.

O’Donnell is No Dickens

2,000

Copies of her book, “Troublemaker,” that Christine O’Donnell has sold in a two-week-long national book tour.

Black Lawmaker Calls Tea Party Racist

Some of these folks in Congress right now would love to see us as second-class citizens. Some of them in Congress right now with this Tea Party movement would love to see you and me … hanging on a tree.

— Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN), an influential member of the Congressional Black Caucus leadership, asserting that Tea Party-aligned lawmakers hold racist views, the Huffington Post reports.

Can We Write Cheney’s Epitaph Now? Please?

No comment.

— Former vice president Dick Cheney, when asked by USA Today what he’d like his epitaph to read. When asked if he wants his epitaph to read, “No comment,” Cheney replied, “No comment, sure.”

Report: GOP-Fox Mouthpiece Bill O’Reilly Bribed Police to Investigate Wife’s Alleged Affair with a Cop

The Feeling’s Gone

Good Hype, Irene …

Perry Compares His Brain with Karl Rove’s

My brain is like a chicken pot pie. His is like a refrigerator that is all very organized — pickles here, salad there.

— Rick Perry, quoted by Politico, comparing himself to Karl Rove in 1994.

Obama’s Uncle Arrested

I think I will call the White House.

— What President Obama’s uncle said when asked by police if he wanted to make a phone after being charged with drunk driving in Massachusetts. He is being held by immigration officials, the AP reports.

McCarthy Offers Romney Some Campaign Advice

He needs to stop staying in hotels and start staying with volunteers at every campaign stop. His job should be to take out the trash every day, and if that bag breaks, he needs to clean it up.

— House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), quoted by the Bakersfield Californian, giving unsolicited advice to Mitt Romney.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer.”

— Vice President JD Vance, on Fox News.

“Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day. And the Democratic Party brand right now is so bullshit.”

— Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by The Atlantic, speaking to college students.

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

Numerati

+175,000

“The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President Donald Trump’s administration so far,” Fox News reports.

$4,600

11

30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%