May 3, 2013 - Pensito

Boehner Presides Over Divided GOP Caucus

May 3, 2013 Buck Banks

The speaker is the captain of a mutinous ship.

— Rep. Bill Keating (D-MA), quoted by the Martha’s Vineyard Times, on the divided House Republican caucus.

George W. Bush Library Overwhelmed by Email Records

May 3, 2013 Buck Banks

200 million

Number of email messages the new George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas is struggling to archive that constitute the former president’s electronic correspondence, says the Wall Street Journal. Each page must be reviewed and, if necessary, censored. At the current pace of 800,000 messages per year, that would take 250 years.

Proof That S.C. Voters Should Never, Ever Get Back Together With Former Gov. Mark Sanford

May 3, 2013May 4, 2013 Trish

Former Gov. Mark Sanford’s braying jackassiness shone through in his recent debate with opponent Elizabeth Colbert-Busch. Both are running from South Carolina for a seat in the United States House of Representatives.

The election is Tuesday, May 7, and polls show Busch expanding her lead or tying with Sanford, depending on the political affiliations of the pollsters. Either way, Sanford is no longer going into the election with an air of inevitability.

Come on South Carolina! Every seat in Congress counts, and it’s time to stop sending fiscal hypocrites and knee-jerk “NO!” ninnies* to Washington, and then wondering why nothing gets done there.

*With all due respect to the late Vice Pres. Spiro Agnew.

Nancy Wants Hillary to Run

May 3, 2013 Buck Banks

I pray that Hillary Clinton decides to run for president of the United States.

— House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), quoted by the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.

Unemployment Hits Lowest Rate Since December 2008

May 3, 2013 Buck Banks

7.5%

The unemployment rate for April, the lowest since December 2008. The U.S. economy added 165,000 jobs last month, more than the 148,000 gain expected by economists, the Wall Street Journal reports.

White, Middle-Aged Americans at Greatest Risk of Suicide

May 3, 2013 Trish

40%

The rate of increase in suicide among middle-aged (35 – 64) white Americans during the decade ending in 2010. There was almost no increase among older or younger people, or other racial groups. Theories on the uptick include the poor economy during that time, and increased use of prescription drugs. Nearly half of the suicides were accomplished using guns.

Day: May 3, 2013

Boehner Presides Over Divided GOP Caucus

The speaker is the captain of a mutinous ship.

— Rep. Bill Keating (D-MA), quoted by the Martha’s Vineyard Times, on the divided House Republican caucus.

George W. Bush Library Overwhelmed by Email Records

200 million

Proof That S.C. Voters Should Never, Ever Get Back Together With Former Gov. Mark Sanford

Nancy Wants Hillary to Run

I pray that Hillary Clinton decides to run for president of the United States.

— House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), quoted by the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.

Unemployment Hits Lowest Rate Since December 2008

7.5%

The unemployment rate for April, the lowest since December 2008. The U.S. economy added 165,000 jobs last month, more than the 148,000 gain expected by economists, the Wall Street Journal reports.

White, Middle-Aged Americans at Greatest Risk of Suicide

40%

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%