Day: May 28, 2015
Rubio Takes Potshots at Clinton, Bush
No one is entitled to the presidency, and no candidate has the right to skip the process of laying out a vision simply because he or she has the deepest connections in Washington or the most money in big-dollar donations.
— Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), writing on his website, taking a shot at Hillary Clinton and probably Jeb Bush as well.
GOP Race has No Frontrunner
10%
Percentage of the vote that Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee, Marco Rubio and Scott Walker share, according to a new Quinnipiac poll that highlights how there is no frontrunner in the GOP presidential race. Said pollster Tim Malloy: “Safe to say, the 2016 Republican presidential primary is anyone’s race. With no frontrunner and identical numbers for the top five contenders, it’s a horserace which can only be described as a scrambled field – at least so far.”
Blumenthal Was on Clinton Foundation Payroll While Advising State Department
$10,000
Monthly salary Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime confidant of Bill and Hillary Clinton, earned as a full-time employee of the Clinton Foundation while he was providing unsolicited intelligence on Libya to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Politico reports. “Blumenthal was added to the payroll of the Clintons’ global philanthropy in 2009 — not long after advising Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign — at the behest of former president Bill Clinton, for whom he had worked in the White House, say the sources.”
Walker Thinks Mandatory Pre-Abortion Ultrasounds Are Cool
We just knew if we signed that law, if we provided the information, that more people if they saw that unborn child would, would make a decision to protect and keep the life of that unborn child.
— Gov. Scott Walker (R), defending his decision to sign a law in Wisconsin mandating ultrasounds for women before they get abortions, calling ultrasounds “just a cool thing out there,” Politico reports.
“Chinatown” Explains It
When it rains in L.A. they get clobbered,
But what they did to their river was improper.
Converting that ditch
Will be a son of a bitch,
And yet they’ll still have to deal with “urban slobber.”
