February 19, 2013

Americans’ Approval of Congress Holds Steady

February 19, 2013 Buck Banks

15%

Americans’ approval of Congress, which held steady in February, compared with 14% in January and exactly matching the 15% average for all of 2012. Congress’ current disapproval rating is 81%.

New Bowles-Simpson Budget Would Trim $2.4 Trillion Over 10 Years

February 19, 2013 Buck Banks

$2.4 trillion

Amount Erskine Bowles’ and Alan Simpson’s proposed new budget framework would cut the country’s debt over the next decade, CNN reports.

Thanks, Dead Ed!

February 19, 2013June 23, 2015 Buck Banks

As previously noted, endorsements don’t count for much.
They’re usually bestowed by celebrities and such.
But for candidate Chris Quinn
It will be extra hard to cash in
On an endorsement from recently deceased Ed Koch.

Then Why Not Go By Theodore?

February 19, 2013 Buck Banks

Yes, I’m Teddy Turner. You can’t pick your parents.

— Teddy Turner (R), quoted by Politico, “trashing his dad every chance he gets to show voters of the 1st Congressional District he’s not some tree-hugging lefty — or worse yet, Jane Fonda’s son.”

Michelle’s Bangs are Signs of Her Midlife Crisis

February 19, 2013 Buck Banks

This is my midlife crisis, the bangs. I couldn’t get a sports car. They won’t let me bungee jump. So instead, I cut my bangs.

— First Lady Michelle Obama, on why she cut her hair, the New York Daily News reports.

In Alabama Fetuses are Bigger than the Brain

February 19, 2013 Buck Banks

When a physician removes a child from a woman, that is the largest organ in a body. That’s a big thing. That’s a big surgery. You don’t have any other organs in your body that are bigger than that.

Day: February 19, 2013

Americans’ Approval of Congress Holds Steady

15%

Americans’ approval of Congress, which held steady in February, compared with 14% in January and exactly matching the 15% average for all of 2012. Congress’ current disapproval rating is 81%.

New Bowles-Simpson Budget Would Trim $2.4 Trillion Over 10 Years

$2.4 trillion

Amount Erskine Bowles’ and Alan Simpson’s proposed new budget framework would cut the country’s debt over the next decade, CNN reports.

Thanks, Dead Ed!

Then Why Not Go By Theodore?

Yes, I’m Teddy Turner. You can’t pick your parents.

— Teddy Turner (R), quoted by Politico, “trashing his dad every chance he gets to show voters of the 1st Congressional District he’s not some tree-hugging lefty — or worse yet, Jane Fonda’s son.”

Michelle’s Bangs are Signs of Her Midlife Crisis

This is my midlife crisis, the bangs. I couldn’t get a sports car. They won’t let me bungee jump. So instead, I cut my bangs.

— First Lady Michelle Obama, on why she cut her hair, the New York Daily News reports.

In Alabama Fetuses are Bigger than the Brain

When a physician removes a child from a woman, that is the largest organ in a body. That’s a big thing. That’s a big surgery. You don’t have any other organs in your body that are bigger than that.

— Alabama state Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin (R), in an interview with the Montgomery Advertiser, defending her sweeping anti-abortion bill.

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%).”