Month: January 2015
Bush Campaign Seeks to Limit GOP Field Through Fundraising
$100 million
Fundraising goal of Jeb Bush’s allies for the first three months of this year — including a whopping $25 million haul in Florida — “in an effort to winnow the potential Republican presidential primary field with an audacious display of financial strength,” Bloomberg reports. “The targets were confirmed by multiple Republican sources involved in finance meetings with Bush’s team. They requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. One said the point is to persuade some establishment candidates to stay on the sidelines in the 2016 race.”
The Odds Are Really Long that Hillary Clinton Will Win in 2016
When it comes to making predictions about 2016, there are lots of important numbers to follow. The unemployment rate. Consumer confidence. The president’s approval rating. The horse race polls. But, in my mind, the most important data point to follow is the one which measures Americans’ desire to stay the current course or try a different one in 2016. … History tells us that the odds of a Clinton presidency are long. In the modern era (well, really since Andrew Jackson in 1836), no Democrat has succeeded a 2-term Democratic president.
— Amy Walter, writing for the Cook Political Report.
Huckabee Says Heterosexuals, Not Homosexuals, Are Greatest Threat to Marriage
Marriage as an institution is not so much threatened by same-sex couples as it is by heterosexuals’ increasing indifference to it.
— Mike Huckabee, in his new book, God, Guns, Grits and Gravy.
First up on GOP’s Congressional Agenda: Banning Abortion
After winning control of both houses of Congress in the midterms last November by fomenting fear about Ebola and ISIS, on their first day in power Republicans revealed their true agenda — putting big government in charge of the uteruses of American women:
A Hard Right
Was Jeb Bush’s campaign theme choice unwise?
Or is he courting votes from afflicted guys?
At this critical junction
He invokes erectile dysfunction
By naming his PAC “Right to Rise.”
Vengeance Is His
Those who oppose Speaker Boehner come from the fringe,
And those who opposed him now have no right to whinge.
Because once they voted,
Their betrayal was noted,
And they set themselves up for Speaker Boehner’s revenge.
White Terrorist Suspect Sought in Bombing of NAACP Offices
Agents from the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were in Colorado Springs yesterday collecting evidence at the scene of a mid-morning bomb attack on the local NAACP office there yesterday. According to local media accounts, witnesses saw a balding, middle-aged white man fleeing the scene in an old white pickup truck.
