Year: 2013

Liberal Dems Have Reached a ‘Turning Point’

Buck Banks

We reached a turning point, and we have to speak for our base that isn’t being heard any more. There isn’t unanimity anymore; you can’t deliver a bloc…. Blind loyalty — I don’t think that’s an option anymore. People are going assert what they think is best for their base, their district, and more importantly, how the Democrats are going to look going into 2014.

— Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), quoted by National Journal, on liberal Democrats starting to take on President Obama.

Campaign Rally for Virginia GOP Governor Candidate Kicks off with Anti-Semitic Joke

Jon Ponder

Transcript of remarks by John Whitbeck, the chairman of Virginia’s 10th Congressional District Republican Committee, in his introduction of Virginia GOP gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli:

WHITBECK: You know, I’m a Catholic, and one of the things … and one of the things we celebrated recently was [garbled], and when the pope was elected, the head of the Jewish faith goes to the Vatican and brings a ceremonial piece of paper. It’s very old. It dates back hundreds of years. And he comes in the pope’s office and he ceremonially hands the piece of paper to the pope, the new pope, and the new pope ceremonially rejects it. And then the head of the Jewish faith leaves. [Garbled.] This time around, the Pope says, “I gotta find out what’s on this piece of paper.” So he actually takes it from the head of the Jewish faith, he opens it, he looks at, he closes it, he grimaces. And his Jewish counterpart says, “What what is?” And he says, “Well, that was the bill from the Last Supper.” So, on that note, we’re waiting for Ken Cuccinelli and he’s on his way.

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North Carolina Republicans’ Feelings Are Hurt by Moral Monday Protests

Jon Ponder

News report from August on the Moral Monday protest in Charlotte

After systematically gutting education and public welfare in North Carolina, hobbling the state’s economy, passing the worst voter suppression laws in the country and turning their once great state into a national laughing stock, Republicans in North Carolina took time out this week to whine about the rhetoric used against them by the people whom they are bent on oppressing:

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There is ‘Something Evil’ in American Society

Buck Banks

There’s something evil in our society that we as Americans have to work to try and eradicate … There’s something wrong here when we have these multiple shootings, these multiple injuries, there’s something wrong … I’d like you to put my trauma center out of business.

— Chief Medical Officer Dr. Janis Orlowski of the Washington Hospital Center, during her press briefing yesterday following the shootings of 13 people at the Washington Naval Yard.