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54%
Of Americans have a favorable opinion of the National Rifle Association; 38% view it unfavorably, according to Gallup. Views of the NRA have fluctuated over time — from a low of 42% favorable in 1995 to a high of 60% in 2005.
Nothing on taxes. Nothing on gun control. Nothing on climate change. Nothing on gay marriage. Nothing on immigration reform (or an incremental, piece-by-piece approach, which will result in nothing). It’s a very odd situation when the losing party is the party refusing to negotiate. It may be how you disrupt, but it is not how you govern, or how you ever hope to regain a majority. … And so, we have a Republican Party today willing to eliminate any prospect for a decent future for anyone, including itself, if it cannot be a future that is 100 percent in accordance with its core beliefs and principles. That’s not governing. That’s just lobbing hand grenades. If you’re only standing on principle to appear taller, then you appear smaller. And the GOP is shrinking daily before our eyes.
— Mark McKinnon, writing in the Daily Beast that it is clear the Republican party “is against everything and for nothing.”
I couldn’t believe the kind of people who had come and taken power. Many of them had never had any government experience. They had no respect as it were for government per se. I mean, I don’t know why you run for government office with the intent to close up government.
— Rep. Bob Filner (D-CA), quoted by Southern California Public Radio, on leaving Congress to become Mayor of San Diego.
If the president and Sen. Reid and John Boehner all said to me today… let’s put Simpson-Bowles on the floor, I guarantee you, given the urgency, we could cobble together something to solve this problem. But nobody’s willing to pull the trigger. Everybody wants to play the blame game. And this blame game’s about to put us over the edge.
— Retiring Rep. Steve LaTourette (R-OH), in an interview on CNN.
265,400
Number of people who have signed a White House petition calling for Westboro Baptist Church to be legally designated a hate group. You can sign the petition here.
