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Mitt Is It!

January 29, 2011May 22, 2014 Buck Banks

The Republicans want Romney to run.
They think his campaign would be fun.
Besides, the prediction
Is he’d win the election —
It says so in the Book of Mormon!

Verbatim

January 28, 2011 Buck Banks

I can report that granny is safe.

— President Obama, quoted by The Hill, vigorously hitting back at GOP claims that the new health care law is “a job-crushing, granny-threatening, budget-busting monstrosity.”

Verbatim

January 28, 2011 Buck Banks

I don’t want to go out and campaign for candidates, I don’t want to be viewed as a perpetual money-raiser. I don’t want to be on these talk shows, giving my opinion, second-guessing the current president. I think it’s bad for the country, frankly, to have a former president criticize his successor.

— Former President George W. Bush on C-SPAN, saying he’s not interested in raising money or campaigning anymore. He then noted the irony: “In spite of the fact that I’m now on TV, I don’t want to be on TV.”

Hawaii to Sell Obama Birth Certificate

January 28, 2011 Buck Banks

$100

The cost of a copy of President Obama’s birth records under a change in privacy laws Hawaii lawmakers are considering that would allow anyone to get a copy of the certificate in a move “that backers hope will finally dispel claims he was born elsewhere,” the Honolulu Star Advertiser reports.

The Obama Oscillation

January 28, 2011May 22, 2014 Buck Banks

In sales, one must cater to one’s market.
In politics, it’s dangerous to stick to a template.
First he’s a socialist,
But now he’s a centrist —
If nothing else, Obama remains a moving target.

Pensito Review Celebrates Sixth Anniversary

January 28, 2011November 19, 2014 Jon Ponder

6

Number of years Pensito Review has been publishing. Thanks to all our readers.

Verbatim

January 28, 2011 Buck Banks

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue. And then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.

— George Orwell, from his essay, “In Front of Your Nose.”

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Most Viewers Were Favorable to SOTU

January 27, 2011 Trish

77%

Number of people who felt “more optimistic” after watching Pres. Obama’s 2011 State of the Union address, according to a CNN poll. Only 19% said it made them “more pessimistic.” Coincidentally, 19% of those polled were Republicans.

The Shameful Shibboleth

January 27, 2011May 22, 2014 Buck Banks

We all know Fox News and Glenn Beck are crazies,
Going around comparing liberals with Nazis.
Yeah, they’ve crossed the line,
And today in the Times
Murdoch caught hell from 400 rabbis.

Verbatim

January 27, 2011 Buck Banks

That was a tough speech to have to sit through and kind of try to stomach because the president is so off-base in his ideas. And his theme last night in the State of the Union was the ‘WTF,’ you know, ‘Winning the Future.’ And I thought, ‘OK, that acronym, spot on.’ There were a lot of ‘WTF’ moments throughout that speech.

Year: 2011

Mitt Is It!

Verbatim

I can report that granny is safe.

— President Obama, quoted by The Hill, vigorously hitting back at GOP claims that the new health care law is “a job-crushing, granny-threatening, budget-busting monstrosity.”

Verbatim

— Former President George W. Bush on C-SPAN, saying he’s not interested in raising money or campaigning anymore. He then noted the irony: “In spite of the fact that I’m now on TV, I don’t want to be on TV.”

Hawaii to Sell Obama Birth Certificate

$100

The cost of a copy of President Obama’s birth records under a change in privacy laws Hawaii lawmakers are considering that would allow anyone to get a copy of the certificate in a move “that backers hope will finally dispel claims he was born elsewhere,” the Honolulu Star Advertiser reports.

The Obama Oscillation

Pensito Review Celebrates Sixth Anniversary

6

Number of years Pensito Review has been publishing. Thanks to all our readers.

Verbatim

— George Orwell, from his essay, “In Front of Your Nose.”

Tweet

Most Viewers Were Favorable to SOTU

77%

Number of people who felt “more optimistic” after watching Pres. Obama’s 2011 State of the Union address, according to a CNN poll. Only 19% said it made them “more pessimistic.” Coincidentally, 19% of those polled were Republicans.

The Shameful Shibboleth

Verbatim

— Celebtician Sarah Palin, in an interview on Fox News, on President Obama’s State of the Union address.

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%

I can report that granny is safe.

— President Obama, quoted by The Hill, vigorously hitting back at GOP claims that the new health care law is “a job-crushing, granny-threatening, budget-busting monstrosity.”

— Former President George W. Bush on C-SPAN, saying he’s not interested in raising money or campaigning anymore. He then noted the irony: “In spite of the fact that I’m now on TV, I don’t want to be on TV.”

$100

The cost of a copy of President Obama’s birth records under a change in privacy laws Hawaii lawmakers are considering that would allow anyone to get a copy of the certificate in a move “that backers hope will finally dispel claims he was born elsewhere,” the Honolulu Star Advertiser reports.

6

Number of years Pensito Review has been publishing. Thanks to all our readers.

— George Orwell, from his essay, “In Front of Your Nose.” Tweet

77%

Number of people who felt “more optimistic” after watching Pres. Obama’s 2011 State of the Union address, according to a CNN poll. Only 19% said it made them “more pessimistic.” Coincidentally, 19% of those polled were Republicans.

— Celebtician Sarah Palin, in an interview on Fox News, on President Obama’s State of the Union address.

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%

— George Orwell, from his essay, “In Front of Your Nose.”

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