Month: August 2013
So Do We, Sherwood, Even Us Atheists
I thank God every night in my nightly prayers for giving me the insight to decide in 2006 not to seek re-election.
— Ex-Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), quoted by National Journal Daily.
Even Seniors Are Starting to Dislike Republicans
Remember when Republicans held their noses and voted for Mitt Romney in 2012? The results showed that really, really hating Candidate A isn’t enough to overcome feeling pretty meh about Candidate B.
A new poll, from a Democratic polling group, shows the same scenario heading into 2014.
Just 28 percent of voters 65 and older had a favorable view of the Republican Party in a national survey conducted last month by the Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg, versus 40 percent who had a positive view of the Democrats. That’s a reversal from a poll Greenberg conducted in early 2011, when 43 percent of seniors saw Republicans favorably and 37 percent saw Democrats that way.
“It is now strikingly clear that [seniors] have turned sharply against the GOP,” Erica Seifert, a senior associate at Greenberg’s firm, wrote on the company’s website this week. “We have seen other voters pull back from the GOP, but among no group has this shift been as sharp as it is among senior citizens.”
And yet, seniors still say they will vote Republican. For now.
Good News for America, Bad News for the GOP – CBO Says Deficit Is Shrinking Faster Than at Any Time Since Post-World War II
Good news, America. The federal deficit is shrinking faster than it has since the end of World War II, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
Oddly enough, however, this good news for the country — this sure sign that the United States is finally recovering from the economic crash at the end of the Bush administration — is actually horrible news for the Republican Party, which for the past five years has pinned its hopes on defeating Pres. Obama and the Democrats by deliberately hobbling the recovery with the hope that a weak economy would benefit them politically.
A Knight, Errant
Gov. Rick Scott has returned to his crusade,
Undaunted by lawsuits, by outcry undismayed.
He seeks to purge Florida’s voter rolls
Of every registered non-American soul,
And from this quixotic quest he shall not be swayed.
‘House of Cards’ Apparently Not an Accurate Portrayal of Congress
He does what he believes in; he does what he likes. He portrays this person with all the wrong things you hear about Washington. He literally murders one member. If I could murder one member, I’d never have to worry about another vote.
— House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), quoted by the Daily Pilot, about Kevin Spacey’s character in House of Cards.
NBC Staffers Dreading Network’s Clinton Mini-Series Fallout
We know there’s this giant firewall, we know that we have nothing to do with it, and we’re going to only own the negative, whether its negative because, you know, the Clinton people are upset that it’s too tough on them or negative because the Republicans think it’s this glorification of her.
— NBC News’ White House correspondent Chuck Todd, on Morning Joe Thursday, calling NBC’s planned miniseries about Hillary Clinton a “total nightmare for NBC News.”
U.S. Debt Is Nothing Compared to Japan’s
1 quadrillion
Japan’s national debt, in yen, has passed ¥1 quadrillion for the first time. That’s more than twice the size of Japan’s GDP, and larger than the combined economies of Germany, France and the U.K.
Exclusive: Pensito Review Obtains Partial al Qaeda Conference Call Transcript
Pensito Review has acquired a partial transcript of the recent conference call between 20 al Qaeda leaders that was intercepted by U.S. national security personnel and led to the temporary closing of 22 U.S. embassies. The call was first reported Wednesday by the Daily Beast. Here is the partial transcript that we have obtained from an anonymous source close to the investigation:
(ring)
Hello, welcome to the AT&T Conference Center. You have accessed the al Qaeda network sponsored by as-Sahab.
Your host, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has not yet arrived. Please hold, your terrorist masterminds conference will begin shortly.
To make your conference call experience as productive as possible, please listen closely to the following menu.
If you are a leader of al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula, press one.
If you are a leader of al Qaeda in Yemen, press two.
If you are a leader of al Shabab, press three.
If you are a leader of another al Qaeda franchise, splinter group or renegade terrorist cell, press four.
If you are a mullah from an unincorporated tribal area who would like to become an al Qaeda franchisee, press five.
If you are a disaffected American or British subject seeking to join al Qaeda or one of its subsidiaries or affiliates, press six.
Please note that for the convenience of other conference participants, all callers except the host will have their lines muted to reduce the sounds of ongoing firefights, Arab Spring uprisings or U.S. drone attacks that could disrupt the call.
This conference call is moderated. If you would like to join the conversation and denounce the Western infidels, press the pound key and an operator will place your insane Islamist diatribe into the conference queue.
Please hold. Your conference will begin shortly.
Thank you for using AT&T.
(disconnect, dial tone)
