August 8, 2011 - Pensito

Why Lewis Black Does Not Do Sarah Palin Jokes

August 8, 2011 Buck Banks

Cooking the Books

August 8, 2011May 22, 2014 Buck Banks

No one said the presidency was a cotillion,
But when S&P did the downgrade, Obama saw vermillion.
However, one has to ask,
If Standard & Poor’s is so good at math,
How come their estimate was off by two trillion?

Perry’s Christian Soldiers AWOL

August 8, 2011 Buck Banks

8,000

Number of people who pre-registered on-line to attend last weekend’s “The Response,” an event at Houston’s Reliant Stadium, a venue with a seating capacity of 71,000. Earlier this year, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) had called on Christians across the country to come to Houston for a prayer event to rescue a “nation in crisis.”

Americans Agree: Congress Sucks

August 8, 2011 Buck Banks

82%

Of Americans now disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job — the most since the question was first asked in 1977, and even more than after another political stalemate led to a shutdown of the federal government in 1995, according to a new New York Times/CBS News poll.

At Least They Aren’t Shooting at Each Other …

August 8, 2011 Buck Banks

They used to cane each other and have duels! The Speaker of the House Henry Clay was in at least one duel!

— House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), in an interview with Slate, on why the 112th Congress isn’t so bad.

Obama, the Stealth Moderate Conservative

August 8, 2011 Buck Banks

In a recent column, I argued that Barack Obama has in practice governed as a moderate conservative. Right wingers were, of course, incredulous, and insisted that he is a far left socialist no matter how thin the evidence. The truth is that Obama has always been moderately conservative — a fact that has been obvious to liberals dating back to the beginning of the 2008 campaign. It would be clear to conservatives as well if they weren’t so blinded by their partisanship and occasionally got their news from an unbiased source.

— Bruce Bartlett, writing in Fiscal Times.

Tea Partyists Cheer When They Learn They Are Being Held Responsible for U.S. Credit Downgrade

August 8, 2011 Jon Ponder

Dave Weigel compares this incident to a caught-on-tape moment from a year or so ago when tea partyists at an Americans for Prosperity meeting cheered when they learned that the United States would not be hosting the 2016 Olympics:

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Day: August 8, 2011

Why Lewis Black Does Not Do Sarah Palin Jokes

Cooking the Books

Perry’s Christian Soldiers AWOL

8,000

Americans Agree: Congress Sucks

82%

Of Americans now disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job — the most since the question was first asked in 1977, and even more than after another political stalemate led to a shutdown of the federal government in 1995, according to a new New York Times/CBS News poll.

At Least They Aren’t Shooting at Each Other …

They used to cane each other and have duels! The Speaker of the House Henry Clay was in at least one duel!

— House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), in an interview with Slate, on why the 112th Congress isn’t so bad.

Obama, the Stealth Moderate Conservative

— Bruce Bartlett, writing in Fiscal Times.

Tea Partyists Cheer When They Learn They Are Being Held Responsible for U.S. Credit Downgrade

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%).”