August 12, 2014

Bacall: ‘I’m a Total Democrat – I’m Anti-Republican’

August 12, 2014August 12, 2014 Pensito Editors

I’m a total Democrat. I’m anti-Republican. And it’s only fair that you know it… I’m liberal. The L word!

– Lauren Bacall ( September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014)

Sorrier Than Sorry

August 12, 2014 Buck Banks

If Fox News Hasn’t offended you lately, don’t worry,
It’ll soon find the low point in the cable-news slurry.
Smith called Robin a coward
To help fill the news hour,
And as Shep himself said, he “couldn’t be more sorry.”

Congressional Approval Headed for Another New Low

August 12, 2014 Buck Banks

13%

Of Americans approve and 83% disapprove of Congress, with a majority (55%) saying they strongly disapprove. Congressional approval is still on track to be the lowest Gallup has found in a midterm election year.

Obama Gets Frustrated by Democrats

August 12, 2014 Buck Banks

There are times where Democrats drive me nuts.

— President Obama, quoted bu the Washington Examiner, at a fundraiser on Martha’s Vineyard.

Republican Crist Used Against Democrat Crist

August 12, 2014 Buck Banks

Hi, this is Charlie Crist calling to set the record straight. I’m pro-life. I oppose amnesty for illegal immigrants, I support traditional marriage, and I have never supported a new tax or big spending program.

— The voice of Charlie Crist, in a mysterious recorded call Democrats across Florida heard over the weekend that seemed to be attacking likely Democratic Florida gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist. As the Miami Herald noted, “Not exactly your standard Democratic primary platform. But the voice in the robocall really is Crist’s and so were the positions he stressed. But it was Charlie Crist circa 2006 — not 2014.”

Axelrod Hits Clinton Over Her Criticism of Obam’s Foreign Policy Stance

August 12, 2014 Buck Banks

Just to clarify: “Don’t do stupid stuff” means stuff like occupying Iraq in the first place, which was a tragically bad decision.

— Former Obama adviser David Axelrod on Twitter (@davidaxelrod), hitting back at Hillary Clinton for her comments rejecting President Obama’s self-stated foreign policy principle, “Don’t do stupid stuff.”

FOX’s Shepard Smith: Robin Williams Was a Coward Who Committed Suicide in a “Fit” of Depression

August 12, 2014 Trish

We were already not fans of FOX News but this is a new low, even for them. Watch to the end for an appalling display by Shepard Smith.

Oh yeah, and he had smoked pot before too. Who says this stuff?

Palin: “I Dunno Why Are You Even Worried about Fast Food Wages Because Dha”

August 12, 2014August 12, 2014 Jon Ponder

We believe? Wait, I thought fast food joints, hurh. Don’t you guys think that they’re like of the Devil or somethin’ I was. Liberals, you want to send those evil employees who would dare work at a fast food joint then ya just don’t believe in, thought you wanted to, I dunno, send them to Purgatory or somethin’ so they all go VEGAN and, uh, wages and picket lines I dunno they’re not often discussed in Purgatory, are they? I dunno why are you even worried about fast food wages because dha. Well, we believe an America where minimum wage jobs they’re not lifetime gigs they’re stepping stone.

-Sarah Palin, Sen. John McCain’s choice to be the Republican Party’s vice presidential nominee in 2008, extemporizing on the minimum wage, which she opposes raising, in a video published on her new website

Day: August 12, 2014

Bacall: ‘I’m a Total Democrat – I’m Anti-Republican’

I’m a total Democrat. I’m anti-Republican. And it’s only fair that you know it… I’m liberal. The L word!

– Lauren Bacall ( September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014)

Sorrier Than Sorry

Congressional Approval Headed for Another New Low

13%

Of Americans approve and 83% disapprove of Congress, with a majority (55%) saying they strongly disapprove. Congressional approval is still on track to be the lowest Gallup has found in a midterm election year.

Obama Gets Frustrated by Democrats

There are times where Democrats drive me nuts.

— President Obama, quoted bu the Washington Examiner, at a fundraiser on Martha’s Vineyard.

Republican Crist Used Against Democrat Crist

Hi, this is Charlie Crist calling to set the record straight. I’m pro-life. I oppose amnesty for illegal immigrants, I support traditional marriage, and I have never supported a new tax or big spending program.

Axelrod Hits Clinton Over Her Criticism of Obam’s Foreign Policy Stance

Just to clarify: “Don’t do stupid stuff” means stuff like occupying Iraq in the first place, which was a tragically bad decision.

— Former Obama adviser David Axelrod on Twitter (@davidaxelrod), hitting back at Hillary Clinton for her comments rejecting President Obama’s self-stated foreign policy principle, “Don’t do stupid stuff.”

FOX’s Shepard Smith: Robin Williams Was a Coward Who Committed Suicide in a “Fit” of Depression

Palin: “I Dunno Why Are You Even Worried about Fast Food Wages Because Dha”

-Sarah Palin, Sen. John McCain’s choice to be the Republican Party’s vice presidential nominee in 2008, extemporizing on the minimum wage, which she opposes raising, in a video published on her new website

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%).”