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13%
Americans’ approval of Congress in April, inching down from 15% in March, and currently standing only four percentage points higher than the all-time low of 9% in November 2013, says Gallup. Congress’ job approval rating has ranged between 12% and 15% since December.
I know from experience that the best way to have the United States be a mediator is for the President himself to be deeply involved. In this occasion, when Secretary Clinton was Secretary of State, she took very little action to bring about peace.
— Jimmy Carter, taking a shot at Hillary Clinton and her tenure as the nation’s top diplomat in an interview with Time.
Many ladies I know feel like they are being used as pawns, and find it condescending [that] Democrats are trying to use this issue as a political distraction from the failures of their economic policy.
— Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS), saying Democrats’ push for pay equity between men and women is “condescending,” the Huffington Post reports.
If you want to say the further and further this gets down the road, the harder and harder it gets to repeal, that’s absolutely true. As far as repeal and replace goes, the problem with replace is that if you really want people to have these new benefits, it looks a hell of a lot like the Affordable Care Act.
— GOP congressional aide, quoted by TPM, on the increasing difficulty of ever repealing Obamacare.
28%
Percentage of the time Fox News is accurate on climate change coverage, Wonk Wire notes.
9.3 million
People have gained health insurance coverage since the Affordable Care Act took effect, according to Wonk Wire.
If he doesn’t think that was torture, I would invite him anywhere in the United States to sit in a waterboard and go through what those people went through, one of them 100-plus-odd times.
— Sen. Angus King (I-ME), in an interview on MSNBC, on Vice President Cheney defending the “enhanced interrogation techniques” used by the CIA under the Bush administration.
— Jeb Bush, quoted by CNN, saying he wants to move past derisive rhetoric describing illegal immigrants.
16%
Of Americans can find Ukraine on a map and this lack of knowledge is related to preferences, a new Survey Sampling International poll found: “The farther their guesses were from Ukraine’s actual location, the more they wanted the U.S. to intervene with military force.”
He doesn’t always try to persuade you with reason. He makes you feel that your life’s going to be very unhappy if you don’t do what he says.
— Former New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean (R), quoted by the New Yorker, on Gov. Chris Christie (R).
