March 22, 2013 - Pensito

A Non-Unifying Principle

March 22, 2013 Buck Banks

Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum tried to meld their abilities.
They thought together on a ticket they could beat Mitt Romney.
But they couldn’t quit the argument
Over which one would be the president —
See, the only thing missing from their unity ticket was … unity.

GOP Still Doesn’t Grok the Budget

March 22, 2013 Buck Banks

The Republican National Committee may want to send a few extra copies of the election postmortem it released this week over to Capitol Hill. Judging by the budget blueprints put forth by congressional Republicans, they didn’t get the memo.

— Nancy Cook, writing in the National Review.

Most Religious Americans Support Path to Citizenship

March 22, 2013 Buck Banks

70%-plus

Of Hispanic Catholics, Hispanics Protestants and black Protestants support a pathway to citizenship. Additionally, more than half of all Jewish Americans (67%), Mormons (63%), white Catholics (62%), white mainline Protestants (61%) and white evangelical Protestants (56%) supported the inclusive immigration policy, according to a new Public Religion Research Institute survey.

Some Republicans Will Never Evolve

March 22, 2013 Buck Banks

I’m not gay. So I’m not going to marry one.

— Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), quoted by Politico, when asked if his views on gay marriage were changing.

Conservatives’ Media Masters

March 22, 2013 Buck Banks

We own talk radio, and Fox News for the most part.

— Rush Limbaugh, on his radio show, on the influence of conservatives.

DNC Deep in Debt

March 22, 2013 Buck Banks

$21.9 million

Amount of the Democratic National Committee’s total obligations at the end of February, up from $20.6 million in debt as of Nov. 26. In addition to taking on more debt, the committee has seen its cash on hand reduced by more than half since Nov. 26, from $9.7 million to just more than $4 million, according to the Washington Post.

He Shoots, Eats and Leaves

March 22, 2013 Buck Banks

If I shoot it, I’m gonna eat it.

— Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), interviewed by National Review, about hunting a lion in Zimbabwe which “wasn’t particularly tasty. It was kind of chewy, but I ate it too.”

Vast Majority Favor Gun Background Checks

March 22, 2013 Buck Banks

88%

Of voters nationwide support universal background checks before allowing purchase of a firearm while just 10% are opposed, a new Quinnipiac poll finds. More interesting is that 85% of gun owners are also in favor.

Starbucks CEO Tells Shareholders Against Marriage Equality to Sell Their Stocks

March 22, 2013 Trish

If you feel, respectfully, that you can get a higher return than the 38 percent you got last year, it’s a free country. You can sell your shares of Starbucks and buy shares in another company. Thank you very much.

— Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, at the company’s annual meeting. Schultz was responding to a shareholder who suggested that a boycott by people against marriage equality, which Starbucks supports, was hurting the bottom line.

Day: March 22, 2013

A Non-Unifying Principle

GOP Still Doesn’t Grok the Budget

The Republican National Committee may want to send a few extra copies of the election postmortem it released this week over to Capitol Hill. Judging by the budget blueprints put forth by congressional Republicans, they didn’t get the memo.

— Nancy Cook, writing in the National Review.

Most Religious Americans Support Path to Citizenship

70%-plus

Some Republicans Will Never Evolve

I’m not gay. So I’m not going to marry one.

— Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), quoted by Politico, when asked if his views on gay marriage were changing.

Conservatives’ Media Masters

We own talk radio, and Fox News for the most part.

— Rush Limbaugh, on his radio show, on the influence of conservatives.

DNC Deep in Debt

$21.9 million

He Shoots, Eats and Leaves

If I shoot it, I’m gonna eat it.

— Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), interviewed by National Review, about hunting a lion in Zimbabwe which “wasn’t particularly tasty. It was kind of chewy, but I ate it too.”

Vast Majority Favor Gun Background Checks

88%

Of voters nationwide support universal background checks before allowing purchase of a firearm while just 10% are opposed, a new Quinnipiac poll finds. More interesting is that 85% of gun owners are also in favor.

Starbucks CEO Tells Shareholders Against Marriage Equality to Sell Their Stocks

If you feel, respectfully, that you can get a higher return than the 38 percent you got last year, it’s a free country. You can sell your shares of Starbucks and buy shares in another company. Thank you very much.

— Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, at the company’s annual meeting. Schultz was responding to a shareholder who suggested that a boycott by people against marriage equality, which Starbucks supports, was hurting the bottom line.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer.”

— Vice President JD Vance, on Fox News.

“Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day. And the Democratic Party brand right now is so bullshit.”

— Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by The Atlantic, speaking to college students.

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

Numerati

+175,000

“The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President Donald Trump’s administration so far,” Fox News reports.

$4,600

11

30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%