November 8, 2012

Boehner and McConnell Dissed Obama on Election Night – Refused Phone Calls from the President, Claiming They Were Asleep

November 8, 2012November 8, 2012 Jon Ponder

In his victory speech Tuesday night, Pres. Obama said he was ready to work with Republicans in Congress on the big issues facing the country:

“I am looking forward to reaching out and working with leaders of both parties to meet the challenges we can only solve together: reducing our deficit, reforming our tax code, fixing our immigration system, freeing ourselves from foreign oil.”

According to the New York Times, minutes after the president made those remarks, he placed calls to the two top Republican leaders in Congress — and they dissed him:

After his speech, Obama tried to call Boehner and the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, but was told they were asleep.

So Republican leaders can’t be bothered to get their dead asses out of bed when the president of the United States calls them? Seriously? These people are hopeless.

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November 8, 2012November 8, 2012 Jon Ponder

Chinese Suss Out the Difference Between Obama and Romney

November 8, 2012November 9, 2012 Buck Banks

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Theory: GOP Lost Due to Voter Supression

November 8, 2012 Buck Banks

May I suggest instead a simple, elegant overriding theory on why we won’t have a Romney Administration in 2013? No serious political party in America — no legitimate party in any viable democracy — can win an election by suppressing votes. So long as the Republican Party endorses (and enacts) voting laws designed to make it harder for registered voters to vote, so long as Republican officials like Ohio’s Jon Husted contort themselves to interpret those laws in a restrictive fashion, the Republicans will continue to play a loser’s game. … That’s my theory, anyway, and I’m sticking to it. Having covered for the past two years the voting rights front in this epic election cycle, I have come to believe that the Republicans will begin to win presidential elections again only when they start competing for votes with the substance of their ideas.

— Andrew Cohen, writing in the Atlantic.

Even Republicans Think Rove is a Problem

November 8, 2012 Buck Banks

Rove spends more for Republican candidates than the NRSC and the NRCC. He’s running things. Rove is definitely a problem.

— GOP strategist Rick Tyler, quoted by BuzzFeed, on the power of Karl Rove in the Republican party.

Democratic Votes for House Candidates Actually Exceeded Republican Votes in Election

November 8, 2012 Buck Banks

53,952,240

Votes were cast for a Democratic candidate for the House and only 53,402,643 were cast for a Republican — meaning that Democratic votes exceed Republican votes by more than half a million, according to Think Progress: “Although a small number of ballots remain to be counted, as of this writing, votes for a Democratic candidate for the House of Representatives outweigh votes for Republican candidates…”

Adelson Not Concerned About Lack of Return on His Investment in the GOP

November 8, 2012 Buck Banks

Paying bills. That’s how you spend money. Either that or become a Jewish husband — you spend a lot of money.

— Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who gave more than $60 million to outside groups trying to defeat President Obama, “did not seem overly concerned about the paltry returns on his investment,” the New York Times reports.

Obama Re-Election Boosts U.S. Flag Sales in Pakistan

November 8, 2012 Buck Banks

Of course Obama has become stronger now and he will push his policies harder and there will be more drone strikes because he himself is stronger now. When the drone strikes increase the protests against these strikes will also increase in Pakistan and it can have an impact on the flags and poster business.

— Nadeem Shah, owner of a flag business in Rawalpindi, explaining the uptick in sales of U.S. flags in Pakistan is due to an increase in flag burnings at anti-American protests.

Sheldon Shelled Out

November 8, 2012November 8, 2012 Buck Banks

There were eight of them, and none of them won,
Even though they received quite princely sums.
The fact just is,
In the election biz,
It’s obviously best not to take money from Sheldon Adelson.

Day: November 8, 2012

Boehner and McConnell Dissed Obama on Election Night – Refused Phone Calls from the President, Claiming They Were Asleep

Watch the Joyful Surprise Moment when Pro-Gay Minnesotans Learn That the Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment on Their Ballot Failed

Chinese Suss Out the Difference Between Obama and Romney

Theory: GOP Lost Due to Voter Supression

— Andrew Cohen, writing in the Atlantic.

Even Republicans Think Rove is a Problem

Rove spends more for Republican candidates than the NRSC and the NRCC. He’s running things. Rove is definitely a problem.

— GOP strategist Rick Tyler, quoted by BuzzFeed, on the power of Karl Rove in the Republican party.

Democratic Votes for House Candidates Actually Exceeded Republican Votes in Election

53,952,240

Adelson Not Concerned About Lack of Return on His Investment in the GOP

Paying bills. That’s how you spend money. Either that or become a Jewish husband — you spend a lot of money.

— Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who gave more than $60 million to outside groups trying to defeat President Obama, “did not seem overly concerned about the paltry returns on his investment,” the New York Times reports.

Obama Re-Election Boosts U.S. Flag Sales in Pakistan

— Nadeem Shah, owner of a flag business in Rawalpindi, explaining the uptick in sales of U.S. flags in Pakistan is due to an increase in flag burnings at anti-American protests.

Sheldon Shelled Out

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%).”