March 2015 - Page 11 of 12

That Lying O’Reilly

March 3, 2015March 3, 2015 Buck Banks

O’Reilly was there with John Wilkes Booth.
He watched them kill George Patton, forsooth!
Bill can tell a story
That covers him in glory,
But what he can’t do is simply tell the truth.

Rauner Calls N.J. a ‘Disaster’

March 3, 2015 Buck Banks

They’re going down the drain, and they ain’t turning it around.

— Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner (R), having some harsh words for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), who campaigned hard for his election last year, the AP reports. Rauner said that New Jersey “is lost” he said the situation in the state is a disaster.

Christie Hits New Low in Home State

March 3, 2015 Buck Banks

35%

Portion of New Jersey registered voters who say they approve of Gov. Chris Christie’s (R) job performance, compared to 51% who disapprove, according to a new Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind survey. Those figures mark the lowest approval and highest disapproval ratings ever recorded by the poll.

Buffet: Warren Needs to Be Less Demonizing

March 3, 2015 Buck Banks

I think that she would do better if she was less angry and demonizing. I believe in ‘hate the sin but love the sinner.’ And I’m not sure that I’ve fully convinced Elizabeth Warren that that’s the way to go.

— Billionaire Warren Buffett, saying he isn’t a fan of Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) populist rhetoric, Business Insider reports.

Sanders Admits to Being a Curmudgeon

March 3, 2015 Buck Banks

My wife always reminds me I depress everybody so much that I need to pass out tranquilizers.

— Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), quoted by the Boston Globe, joking about his curmudgeonly demeanor.

Netanyahu: I’m Not Dissing Obama

March 3, 2015March 3, 2015 Buck Banks

My speech is not intended to show any disrespect to President Obama or the esteemed office that he holds. I have great respect for both.

— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, opening “his high-profile visit to the American capital by playing down any personal dispute with President Obama, but he said that he had a ‘moral obligation’ to warn against the dangers of an American-brokered nuclear deal with Iran,” the New York Times reports.

Majority Thinks Presidents Should have a College Degree

March 2, 2015 Buck Banks

62%

Of voters think it’s important for the President to have a degree, compared to only 31% who think it doesn’t matter, a new Public Policy Polling survey finds. Interesting: “There’s a large partisan divide on the issue: Democrats by an 81%-14% spread think it’s important while Republicans are evenly divided on the matter at 45%-45%.”

Is Huckabee Running or Selling Books?

March 2, 2015 Buck Banks

He’s a winsome personality. Everyone here is convinced he’s running…but sometimes I think, ‘well, maybe he’s just selling books.’

— Former Iowa GOP official Craig Robinson, quoted by the Wall Street Journal, on Mike Huckabee’s presidential ambitions.

Clinton Portrait Artist Included Reference to Lewinsky

March 2, 2015 Buck Banks

If you look at the left-hand side of it there’s a mantle in the Oval Office and I put a shadow coming into the painting and it does two things. It actually literally represents a shadow from a blue dress that I had on a mannequin, that I had there while I was painting it, but not when he was there. It is also a bit of a metaphor in that it represents a shadow on the office he held, or on him. And so the Clintons hate the portrait. They want it removed from the National Portrait Gallery. They’re putting a lot of pressure on them.

— Pennsylvania artist Nelson Shanks, telling the Philadelphia Daily News that he included a reference to Monica Lewinsky in his portrait of Bill Clinton.

Hatch Explains Why Senators Aren’t Good Presidential Candidates

March 2, 2015March 3, 2015 Buck Banks

I don’t think that senators have much chance of running for president. The reason is, if they’re doing their job, they can’t run. If they don’t do their job, then that’ll be used against them.

They’re going down the drain, and they ain’t turning it around.

— Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner (R), having some harsh words for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), who campaigned hard for his election last year, the AP reports. Rauner said that New Jersey “is lost” he said the situation in the state is a disaster.

35%

I think that she would do better if she was less angry and demonizing. I believe in ‘hate the sin but love the sinner.’ And I’m not sure that I’ve fully convinced Elizabeth Warren that that’s the way to go.

— Billionaire Warren Buffett, saying he isn’t a fan of Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) populist rhetoric, Business Insider reports.

My wife always reminds me I depress everybody so much that I need to pass out tranquilizers.

— Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), quoted by the Boston Globe, joking about his curmudgeonly demeanor.

My speech is not intended to show any disrespect to President Obama or the esteemed office that he holds. I have great respect for both.

62%

He’s a winsome personality. Everyone here is convinced he’s running…but sometimes I think, ‘well, maybe he’s just selling books.’

— Former Iowa GOP official Craig Robinson, quoted by the Wall Street Journal, on Mike Huckabee’s presidential ambitions.

— Pennsylvania artist Nelson Shanks, telling the Philadelphia Daily News that he included a reference to Monica Lewinsky in his portrait of Bill Clinton.

I don’t think that senators have much chance of running for president. The reason is, if they’re doing their job, they can’t run. If they don’t do their job, then that’ll be used against them.

— Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), quoted by the New York Times.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer.”

— Vice President JD Vance, on Fox News.

“Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day. And the Democratic Party brand right now is so bullshit.”

— Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by The Atlantic, speaking to college students.

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

Numerati

+175,000

“The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President Donald Trump’s administration so far,” Fox News reports.

$4,600

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30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%