June 12, 2012 - Pensito

Jeb Bush Is Worst Surrogate Yet

June 12, 2012 Buck Banks

Ronald Reagan would have, based on his record of finding accommodation, finding some degree of common ground, as would my dad — they would have a hard time if you define the Republican party — and I don’t — as having an orthodoxy that doesn’t allow for disagreement, doesn’t allow for finding some common ground.

— Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, noting that both Ronald Reagan and his father George H. W. Bush “would have had a difficult time getting nominated by today’s ultraconservative Republican Party,” BuzzFeed reports. He added that he views the hyper-partisan moment as “temporary” but called it “disturbing.”

Nearly Half Think Republicans Deliberately Stalling Economy

June 12, 2012 Buck Banks

49%

Of registered voters nationwide think Republicans are “intentionally stalling efforts to jumpstart the economy” to ensure President Obama’s defeat for re-election, a new DailyKos/SEIU/PPP poll finds.

Police Can Be Idiots on Facebook, too

June 12, 2012June 12, 2012 Buck Banks

I was an idiot for putting it on Facebook, but to have all the pluses in my career forgotten over this one incident, which harmed no one, I think, is taking things too far.

— Arizona police officer Pat Shearer, telling the Arizona Republic that he wasn’t thinking when he posted on his Facebook President Obama’s image on a T-shirt with bullet holes. Shearer is now appealing his demotion and two-week suspension without pay on grounds that it is excessive.

The Last Gaffe

June 12, 2012 Buck Banks

Do you remember how it was in the past,
How they’d shrug ’em off with a wink and a laugh?
But now they’ve begun
To determine who’s won —
It’s the one who laughs last with the least gaffes.

Day: June 12, 2012

Jeb Bush Is Worst Surrogate Yet

Nearly Half Think Republicans Deliberately Stalling Economy

49%

Of registered voters nationwide think Republicans are “intentionally stalling efforts to jumpstart the economy” to ensure President Obama’s defeat for re-election, a new DailyKos/SEIU/PPP poll finds.

Police Can Be Idiots on Facebook, too

I was an idiot for putting it on Facebook, but to have all the pluses in my career forgotten over this one incident, which harmed no one, I think, is taking things too far.

— Arizona police officer Pat Shearer, telling the Arizona Republic that he wasn’t thinking when he posted on his Facebook President Obama’s image on a T-shirt with bullet holes. Shearer is now appealing his demotion and two-week suspension without pay on grounds that it is excessive.

The Last Gaffe

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%).”