Year: 2013
From Billionaire to Millionaire in Two Days
$1,000,000,000
Amount of an asset mistakenly listed by Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) on his personal financial disclosure report filing, Political Moneyline reports.Two days later, McCaul filed an amendment to that report indicating that the amount should be listed as only $1,000,000.
Weiner Doesn’t Miss the Press Scrum
You might be surprised to hear this, but I actually like it better this way.
— Anthony Weiner (D), quoted by BuzzFeed, on the very few reporters still covering his New York City mayoral race.
Maddow Interviews Nine-Term Dem N.C. Sen. Ellie Kinnaird, 81, Who Has Resigned to Fight Republican Voter Suppression Fulltime
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Here is the statement Sen. Kinnaird released, via the Daily Tar Heel, the newspaper published by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which is in her district:
Tea Party Presidential Wanna-Be, Sen. Rafael Eduardo ‘Ted’ Cruz of Texas, Releases Scan of a Document Purported to Be His Birth Certificate
Texas Tea Party Sen. Ted Cruz signaled he is definitely running for president in 2016 by releasing his birth certificate this week. The scan he provided is posted above and, as you can see, it just seems fake, doesn’t it? The document purports that Cruz’s real name is not “Ted,” it’s Rafael Eduardo Cruz — the certificate says his middle name is “Edward,” but that was probably Photoshopped from Eduardo to make him sound more American. But the clincher is, it says he was born in Canada, which — for the benefit of any low-info Fox viewers who may read this — is a foreign country.
The document indicates that his mother was an American but that his father, Rafael Bienvenido Cruz, was a Cuban national. Because of this, the media is drawing parallels between Cruz’ citizenship status at birth and Pres. Obama’s. The president was also born in a foreign country — Hawaii — to an American mother and a non-American father. Barack Obama Sr. was a citizen of Kenya, which was then a British colony. One significant difference is that while Obama’s father has been accused of being “anti-colonial” (just like George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the first three U.S. presidents) Cruz’ father admits he fought for the communist dictator, Fidel Castro.
Nope, Not Me
Some handle it gingerly, with a simple “No comment.”
Others play it coy, while some feign abashment.
But never risk admission
While masking naked ambition,
And always, always deny you’re running for president.
Obama Approval Rating Sags Each Summer
46%
President Obama’s job approval rating, which has shown a pattern of decline during the summer months during his presidency, according to Gallup. From June through August, his approval rating dips each month.
The Dogged Days
With baseball and barbecues, it’s supposed to be funner,
But for Barack Obama, this season’s a bummer.
When it’s hot as coals,
He declines in the polls.
Maybe he should just take off the entire summer.
