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Americans said they were bothered a lot by the feeling that ‘some wealthy people’ and ‘some corporations’ don’t pay their fair share, according to a Pew Research survey. “Only 27% cited their own tax bills as something that bothered them a lot, even though 40% thought they paid more than their fair share given what they get from the federal government.”
Joe is his own worst enemy. He can’t keep his mouth shut or his hands to himself.
— Former Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), on Vice President Joe Biden, in an interview with Larry King.
I said that it’s real, that man has contributed to it in a substantial way. But the problem is Al Gore’s turned this thing into religion. You know, climate change is not a religious problem for me, it’s an economic, it is an environmental problem.
— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), blaming Al Gore in a speech for the fact that “people of my party are all over the board” when it comes to thinking climate change is real.
I’m an unorthodox politician, because I’m an ordinary person in a big job.
— Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), quoted by the Wall Street Journal, “appearing tieless and sporting a spiky haircut” in a visit to New Hampshire.
19% to 18%
Scott Walker’s lead over Jeb Bush in the GOP presidential primary in New Hampshire, according to a new Gravis Marketing poll. Chris Christie is at 10%, Rand Paul at 10%, Marco Rubio at 7%, Ted Cruz at 6% and Ben Carson is at 6%.
2 to 8 points
Lead that Hillary Clinton has over all of the potential GOP contenders in Florida, a new Public Policy Polling survey finds. Marco Rubio comes the closest at just a 48 to 46 deficit and Jeb Bush is down by a similar margin at 47 to 44.
For twenty years, many people in Israel and in the West have expressed the hope that Benjamin Netanyahu would prove to be the Richard Nixon of the State of Israel … the Nixon who yearned to enter the pantheon of statesmen, and who defied his Red-baiting past and initiated diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China. … It is amazing to recall how long this fantasy persisted.
— David Remnick, writing in the New Yorker.
Like most psychopaths. That’s why they’re successful. That’s the way they look. They all look great.
— Ben Carson, quoted by GQ, commenting on how President Obama looked at the State of the Union address.
