Month: February 2012
Adelson Might Spend $100k on Election
I’m against very wealthy people attempting to or influencing elections. But as long as it’s doable I’m going to do it. Because I know that guys like Soros have been doing it for years, if not decades.
— Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, in an interview with Forbes, suggesting he might spend up to $100 million on the presidential election.
Obama Has Significant Cash-In-Hand Advantage Over GOPers
$76 million
Amount Obama’s campaign had in cash on hand at the end of the month; the four GOP candidates had less than $13 million combined.
Illegal Immigrants Paid $11.2 Billion in Taxes in 2010
$11.2 Billion
Amount paid in state and local taxes in 2010 by undocumented residents and their families. That included $1.2 billion in personal income taxes, $1.6 billion in property taxes and $8.4 billion in sales taxes.
Breitbart, the Boil
All of us liberals hate Andrew Breitbart, of course,
But some of us, more than others, hate him worse.
Especially Alec Baldwin,
Who came out and called him
“A festering boil on the anus of public discourse.”
Makes You Go, “Awwww”
Happy President’s Day to my personal favorite, @BarackObama. –mo
A tweet from the first lady’s Twitter account.
Santoeum Accuses Obama of ‘Phony Theology’
The president has reached a new low in this country’s history of oppressing religious freedom that we have never seen before. If he doesn’t want to call his imposition of his values a theology that’s fine, but it is an imposition of his values over a church who has very clear theological reasons for opposing what the Obama administration is forcing on them.
— Rick Santorum, quoted by NBC News, saying President Obama preaches “some phony ideal, some phony theology.”
Romney Does Not Excite Passion in Electorate
The Mitt Romney crisis transcends the seven straight national polls showing Rick Santorum in the lead. It goes beyond the embarrassing reality that the son of an auto executive and two-term governor has been behind in every Michigan poll conducted since Groundhog’s Day. Even more devastating for Romney is that elite Republicans have begun to conclude that he cannot, if nominated, beat Barack Obama. About the only argument that still works for Romney among GOP insiders is that he would be less of a drag on the ticket than the strident Santorum or the mercurial Newt Gingrich. … With the exception of Mike Dukakis (what is it about governors of Massachusetts?), it is impossible to recall a top-tier presidential contender who aroused such little passion among the voters.
— Walter Shapiro, writing in the New Republic.
Santorum: When I Said Obama Believed in a ‘Phony Theology,’ I Was Referring to Climate Change
After disparaging Pres. Obama’s religion in remarks to a tea party crowd in Ohio, GOP frontrunner Rick Santorum went on television yesterday in an attempt to walk back his statement that the president believes in “some phony theology. Not a theology based on the Bible. A different theology.”
Santorum said on the CBS “Face the Nation” program yesterday that he wasn’t questioning Obama’s Christian faith in claiming the president subscribes to a “phony theology,” the phrase he used in a speech to Tea Party activists in Ohio.
“I was talking about the radical environmentalists,” Santorum said. “That’s why I was talking about energy. This idea that man is here to serve the earth, as opposed to husband its resources and being good stewards of the earth, and I think that is a phony ideal.”
Climate science is a theology? Is Rick Santorum really that dumb? Well, yeah. Remember that Santorum was labeled the “Dumbest Member of Congress” when he served in the House in the 1990s — and just last month an aide to Sen. John McCain opined that “For pure, blind stupidity, nobody beats Santorum. In my 20 years in the Senate, I never met a dumber member.”
