March 2015 - Page 12 of 12

Boehner Calls Failed Budget Vote ‘Messy’

March 2, 2015 Buck Banks

It was just messy and I’m not into messy. But listen, I enjoy being in a legislative body. I enjoy all the personalities, and I’ve got a lot of them.

— Speaker John Boehner, in an interview with CBS News, admitting that averting a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security on Friday night “wasn’t a whole lot of fun.”

Nearly Hald Say Netanyahu Should Not Have Been Invited

March 2, 2015 Buck Banks

48%

Of American voters think that Republican lawmakers should not have invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to a joint session of Congress without first notifying President Barack Obama, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey.

O’Malley Criticizes Clinton’s ‘Triangulation’

March 2, 2015 Buck Banks

The most fundamental power of our party and our country is the power of our moral principles. Triangulation is not a strategy that will move America forward. History celebrates profiles in courage, not profiles in convenience.

— Martin O’Malley (D), taking “a veiled shot” at Hillary Clinton in a speech in South Carolina, “criticizing the politics of triangulation that have historically been associated with the Clintons,” the New York Times reports.

Three-Time Winner

March 2, 2015 Buck Banks

Rand Paul might seem to be on the fast track,
With his loony libertarian act.
But in the 2016 campaign,
It’s becoming more plain
The only election he’ll win is the straw poll at CPAC.

Boehner’s Only Security Concern Is Over His Gavel

March 2, 2015 Buck Banks

John Boehner’s view of security is the security of his gavel and tonight it’s less secure.

— Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY), quoted by Politico, suggesting last night humiliating defeat for Speaker John Boehner “could dislodge the GOP leadership team.”

GOP Can’t Govern … or Count

March 2, 2015 Buck Banks

Not only can they not govern, but we’ve learned that they can’t even count.

— Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY), quoted by CQ Now, on the House GOP’s failure pass a three-week Homeland Security funding bill.

GOP Angling Toward Irrelevance on Immigration

March 2, 2015 Buck Banks

Rather than cursing the darkness, reflexively screaming ‘amnesty,’ and calling for deportation of a population the size of Ohio, they need to light a candle and show the way forward on this complex issue. And they must do this in a way that solves the problem and does not doom the Republican Party to political irrelevance in the future.

Month: March 2015

Boehner Calls Failed Budget Vote ‘Messy’

It was just messy and I’m not into messy. But listen, I enjoy being in a legislative body. I enjoy all the personalities, and I’ve got a lot of them.

— Speaker John Boehner, in an interview with CBS News, admitting that averting a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security on Friday night “wasn’t a whole lot of fun.”

Nearly Hald Say Netanyahu Should Not Have Been Invited

48%

Of American voters think that Republican lawmakers should not have invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to a joint session of Congress without first notifying President Barack Obama, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey.

O’Malley Criticizes Clinton’s ‘Triangulation’

The most fundamental power of our party and our country is the power of our moral principles. Triangulation is not a strategy that will move America forward. History celebrates profiles in courage, not profiles in convenience.

— Martin O’Malley (D), taking “a veiled shot” at Hillary Clinton in a speech in South Carolina, “criticizing the politics of triangulation that have historically been associated with the Clintons,” the New York Times reports.

Three-Time Winner

Boehner’s Only Security Concern Is Over His Gavel

John Boehner’s view of security is the security of his gavel and tonight it’s less secure.

— Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY), quoted by Politico, suggesting last night humiliating defeat for Speaker John Boehner “could dislodge the GOP leadership team.”

GOP Can’t Govern … or Count

Not only can they not govern, but we’ve learned that they can’t even count.

— Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY), quoted by CQ Now, on the House GOP’s failure pass a three-week Homeland Security funding bill.

GOP Angling Toward Irrelevance on Immigration

— GOP pollster Whit Ayres, quoted by the Washington Post.

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%