May 17, 2012 - Pensito

Super PAC Attack Looms for Obama

May 17, 2012 Buck Banks

GOP Super PAC plans ad campaign against Barack Obama, the “metrosexual, black Abe Lincoln” whose “misguided mentor” was Jeremiah Wright.

— Jake Beckman, Bloomberg News assignment editor, tweeted regarding the $10 million super PAC attack campaign being mounted by GOP strategists in September to disrupt the Democratic convention.

In reply, Adam Weinstein, Mother Jones blogger, wrote: “Which part of ‘metrosexual black Abraham Lincoln’ was supposed to make me not want to reelect that dude?”

Clinton Ribs Boehner

May 17, 2012 Buck Banks

Mr. Speaker, I like it when you cry. You give new meaning to compassionate conservative.

— Bill Clinton, quoted by Washingtonian magazine, to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH).

The Joke Kimmel Didn’t Tell

May 17, 2012 Buck Banks

Newt Gingrich’s campaign is so dead Mitt Romney wants to baptize it and Rick Santorum wants to put it in a jar and show it to his kids.

— Talk-show host and comedian Jimmy Kimmel, telling Howard Stern the joke Kimmel didn’t tell at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

Fox Poll Finds Obama Lead Widening Nationally

May 17, 2012 Buck Banks

46% to 39%

Margin by which a new Fox News poll finds Presdent Obama leading Mitt Romney nationally. Just three weeks ago the candidates were tied at 46%. The finding is the reverse of a New York Times/CBS News poll put out earlier this week which found Romney moving into a lead.

GOP Silent on Same-Gender Marriage

May 17, 2012 Buck Banks

The greatest indication that public opinion on same-sex marriage has shifted over the past few years: almost no prominent GOP elected officials raised the issue after the day of the endorsement; party leaders, almost to a person, changed the topic to the economy when asked about Obama’s now evolved stance. Besides, at a time when Republicans are trying to minimize the impression that their party is intolerant, the last thing they want is to pick a big fight over personal liberty and morality. Rest assured, they will quietly communicate Obama’s position to targeted voters via religious organizations and mail as the election nears. And if Obama loses narrowly, some of his supporters are sure to look back and wonder if publicly backing gay marriage cost him his job.

— Mark Halperin, writing in Time Magazine.

The Guy Whose Economic Advice We Are Least Likely to Take

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This is roughly equivalent to John Edwards publishing a book on marital fidelity, or Ron Paul publishing a book on racial tolerance.

Pundit Henry Decker, in a column called, “Not A Joke: Bush To Publish Book On Economic Growth.” The book is part of an effort to rehabilitate the reputation of former Pres. George W. Bush, whose policies of mortgage and finance deregulation, and of cutting taxes at the top of the income scale while launching two wars plunged the country into recession.

Day: May 17, 2012

Super PAC Attack Looms for Obama

GOP Super PAC plans ad campaign against Barack Obama, the “metrosexual, black Abe Lincoln” whose “misguided mentor” was Jeremiah Wright.

Clinton Ribs Boehner

Mr. Speaker, I like it when you cry. You give new meaning to compassionate conservative.

— Bill Clinton, quoted by Washingtonian magazine, to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH).

The Joke Kimmel Didn’t Tell

Newt Gingrich’s campaign is so dead Mitt Romney wants to baptize it and Rick Santorum wants to put it in a jar and show it to his kids.

— Talk-show host and comedian Jimmy Kimmel, telling Howard Stern the joke Kimmel didn’t tell at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

Fox Poll Finds Obama Lead Widening Nationally

46% to 39%

Margin by which a new Fox News poll finds Presdent Obama leading Mitt Romney nationally. Just three weeks ago the candidates were tied at 46%. The finding is the reverse of a New York Times/CBS News poll put out earlier this week which found Romney moving into a lead.

GOP Silent on Same-Gender Marriage

— Mark Halperin, writing in Time Magazine.

The Guy Whose Economic Advice We Are Least Likely to Take

This is roughly equivalent to John Edwards publishing a book on marital fidelity, or Ron Paul publishing a book on racial tolerance.

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%).”