September 25, 2013

Cruz Follower’s Tweet Says It All: ‘No Need to Think, We Stand with Ted’

September 25, 2013September 25, 2013 Jon Ponder

@mboyle1 no need to think. We stand with @SenTedCruz.

— Richard Cash (@cash4senate) September 25, 2013

She Hates to Say It, But Yeah, the Tea Party is Racist

September 25, 2013 Trish

I also think, you know, just calling it, that some of this tea party anger is racist, and that having a non-black person on the ticket will diffuse it to some degree.

Cokie Roberts, pundit, backing into the most soft-peddled indictment of tea party racism ever, on the Morning Joe show.

I Really Want to Buy Into This Slate Pitch, But …

September 25, 2013September 25, 2013 Buck Banks

I’m not sure I can swallow the assertion that Barack Obama is the shrewdest political tactician since LBJ, but David Corn does make a compelling case, and I really do want to believe that all this time Obama knew exactly what he was doing on Syria, Putin and the debt showdown.

I suppose he’s just being Lincoln-esque. Again …

Do you buy the pitch?

Day: September 25, 2013

Cruz Follower’s Tweet Says It All: ‘No Need to Think, We Stand with Ted’

She Hates to Say It, But Yeah, the Tea Party is Racist

I also think, you know, just calling it, that some of this tea party anger is racist, and that having a non-black person on the ticket will diffuse it to some degree.

Cokie Roberts, pundit, backing into the most soft-peddled indictment of tea party racism ever, on the Morning Joe show.

I Really Want to Buy Into This Slate Pitch, But …

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%).”