Year: 2014
SNL Lambasts Florida Newspaper for Using Amateur Proofreaders
A Florida newspaper is inviting readers to volunteer as proofreaders for three hours a night, with the person catching the most typos winning a free dinner. But you’re going to need more than three hours to find all the typos in the Flurdah Son Tims.
— Seth Myers, on “Saturday Night Live Weekend Update.”
Right to Left
The Arizona GOP did just proclaim
Him on Goldwater’s legacy, a stain.
They said they are sure
He deserves their censure,
That lefty, loopy liberal, John McCain.
Deficit Reduction No Longer a Top Policy Priority for Americans
63%
Say reducing the budget deficit should be a top priority for Congress and the president this year, down from 72% a year ago, a new Pew Research poll finds. Most of the decline has come among Democrats: Only about half of Democrats — 49% — view deficit reduction as a top priority, down 18 points since last January.
Poll: GOP Seen as Intractable, Dishonest, Unethical and Extreme by Most Americans
52% to 27%
Margin by which Americans perceive Democrats as more willing to work with the other party than Republicans, new Pew Research poll shows.”Democrats also hold a 20-point advantage when it comes to which party ‘is more concerned with the needs of people like me’ and a 10-point edge when it comes to governing in a more ethical and honest way. The GOP, meanwhile, is viewed as much more ‘extreme’ in its issue positions (54% to 35%) and more influenced by lobbyists (47% to 30%).”
Boehner: Running House Majority Like Herding Frogs
I like to describe my job as trying to get 218 frogs in a wheelbarrow long enough to pass a bill. It’s hard to do.
— House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), quoted by the Los Angeles Times.
What Do You Really Need to Know to Be U.S. Ambassador to Norway?
I have no more questions for this incredibly highly qualified group of nominees.
— Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), quoted by Yahoo News, after U.S. Ambassador-designate George Tsunis displayed a total lack of knowledge of Norway at his confirmation hearing.
Midterm Worm Turn
The NSA leaks were met with Republican indignation.
They said Edward Snowden was a disgrace to the nation.
They called him a spy,
But now they love the guy
For giving them cause to investigate the administration.
They first said Snowden’s leak was a defection,
But now they see his point, upon reflection.
He gave them insights
Into things that weren’t right,
And hey, just in time for the midterm elections!
Prominent Republican Propagandist Indicted for Voter Fraud
Dinesh D’Souza, a conservative commentator and best-selling author, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for arranging excessive campaign contributions to a candidate for the U.S. Senate.
According to an indictment made public on Thursday in federal court in Manhattan, D’Souza around August 2012 reimbursed people who he had directed to contribute $20,000 to the candidate’s campaign. The candidate was not named in the indictment…
D’Souza was charged in the indictment with one count of making illegal contributions in the names of others, and one count of causing false statements to be made.
Federal law in 2012 limited primary and general election campaign contributions to $2,500 each, for a total of $5,000, from any individual to any one candidate.
The Senate candidate was Republican Wendy Long, who ran unsuccessfully against incumbent New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in 2012.
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