Bye Bye Bachmann
We’re going to miss your next Senate campaign, Michelle.
In your upcoming job search, though, we wish you well.
You can’t be overjoyed
About being unemployed,
‘Cause hanging around the house with Marcus all day would be hell.
Month: May 2013
Scarborough Likes Winning
I like winning, I’m different. I definitely am a RINO in that respect, my dear howling friends. I like to win. In fact, I do win. That’s just what I do. I go out — I don’t know if you knew this or not — the idea in elections is to get more votes than the other side.
— Joe Scarborough, quoted by the Huffington Post reports, asking Republicans if they “ever want to be in the White House again.”
Republicans Three Times as Likely to Lie as Democrats
32%
Percentage of Republican statements PolitiFact rated as “false” or “pants on fire,” compared to 11% of Democratic claims — a 3 to 1 margin, in a recent George Mason University study. Conversely, Politifact rated 22% of Democratic claims as “entirely true” compared to 11% of Republican claims – a 2 to 1 margin.
California Facing Budget Surplus — So There’s a Problem?
$1.2 billion or $4.4 billion
Amount of the unexpected budget surplus California is projected to have this year, depending on whose estimate you accept, Gov. Jerry Brown or the Legislature’s independent financial analyst, respectively, reports the New York Times.The surplus comes barely three years after the state faced a deficit of nearly $60 billion.
Congress Losing a Squirrel; Country Gaining a Nut
There is no question that Rep. Michele Bachmann (GOP/Tea – Minn.) is among the squirreliest of the squirrels in Congress. But as she announces her decision not to seek re-election next year, the web site capitolwords has ranked the words and phrases most used by the head of the tea party caucus.
And the number one single word most used by Bachmann on the floor of the House is…“acorn.”
The surprises on the list, which can be sorted by one-word, two-word, three-word, etc. phrases include that “Obamacare” doesn’t make the top twenty in any category. “Obama” was of course number two on the single word list, and, to her credit, “President Obama” was number four when Bachmann used two words. Also on the lists: “socialized,” “democrat-controlled,” “planned parenthood,” “back to $2 a gallon,” and finally, “I was unexpectedly detained.”
In announcing her lame duckness via an eight-minute video, Bachmann did not say she was planning to spend more time with her family, and is more or less looking for a job.
