August 5, 2013 - Pensito

He’s Stopped It

August 5, 2013 Buck Banks

He said he hadn’t done it in at least a year or more,
Though he was still doing it when he said he’d stopped before.
For those who’re still inquisitive,
He says that now it’s quite definitive,
Anthony Weiner is absolutely, positively not sexting anymore.

McMillan Endorses Weiner, Kind Of

August 5, 2013 Buck Banks

We all are freaky. He just exposed his freaky-ism in the wrong way.

— Jimmy McMillan of The Rent is Too Damn High Party, quoted by Politicker, endorsing Anthony Weiner in the New York City mayoral race.

McConnell Wouldn’t Pass a Kidney Stone

August 5, 2013 Buck Banks

Let’s tell it like it is. If the doctors told Sen. McConnell he had a kidney stone, he wouldn’t pass it.

— Alison Lundergran Grimes (D), quoted by The Hill.

Insular Republicans Set to Harm GOP’s National Ambitions

August 5, 2013 Buck Banks

They are totally insulated from public opinion on this because of redistricting. Republicans are gonna continue to hold the House. But then we’ll head into the 2016 presidential election where the electorate is likely to be 2 percent less white than it was in 2012 and 4 percent less white than it was in 2008. This is a simple math equation.

— GOP strategist Steve Schmidt, in an interview with the New York Times, on the harm House Republicans will do to the GOP’s national ambitions by not supporting immigration reform.

Bevin Talks Tough on McConnell

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I don’t intend to run to the right of Mitch McConnell. I don’t intend to run to the left of Mitch McConnell. I intend to run straight over the top of Mitch McConnell and right into the U.S. Senate.

— Kentucky U.S. Senate candidate Matt Bevin (R), quoted by the Louisville Courier Journal, delivering “what may have been the sharpest attack of the day” at Fancy Farm.

The Dead Can’t Vote, But They Can Contribute

August 5, 2013 Buck Banks

32

The number of people listed on federal campaign records as “deceased” who nonetheless have contributed more than $586,000 to congressional and presidential candidates and political parties since Jan. 1, 2009, according to USA Today.

Day: August 5, 2013

He’s Stopped It

McMillan Endorses Weiner, Kind Of

We all are freaky. He just exposed his freaky-ism in the wrong way.

— Jimmy McMillan of The Rent is Too Damn High Party, quoted by Politicker, endorsing Anthony Weiner in the New York City mayoral race.

McConnell Wouldn’t Pass a Kidney Stone

Let’s tell it like it is. If the doctors told Sen. McConnell he had a kidney stone, he wouldn’t pass it.

— Alison Lundergran Grimes (D), quoted by The Hill.

Insular Republicans Set to Harm GOP’s National Ambitions

— GOP strategist Steve Schmidt, in an interview with the New York Times, on the harm House Republicans will do to the GOP’s national ambitions by not supporting immigration reform.

Bevin Talks Tough on McConnell

I don’t intend to run to the right of Mitch McConnell. I don’t intend to run to the left of Mitch McConnell. I intend to run straight over the top of Mitch McConnell and right into the U.S. Senate.

— Kentucky U.S. Senate candidate Matt Bevin (R), quoted by the Louisville Courier Journal, delivering “what may have been the sharpest attack of the day” at Fancy Farm.

The Dead Can’t Vote, But They Can Contribute

32

The number of people listed on federal campaign records as “deceased” who nonetheless have contributed more than $586,000 to congressional and presidential candidates and political parties since Jan. 1, 2009, according to USA Today.

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%).”