June 2015 - Page 7 of 12

Walker Leads in Iowa

June 15, 2015 Buck Banks

18%

Scott Walker’s leading over the GOP field in Iowa, followed by Jeb Bush, Mike Huckabee and Rand Paul at 10%. They are followed by Marco Rubio at 7%, Chris Christie at 6%, and Ben Carson and Donald Trump at 5% according to a new Morning Consult Poll.

Rubio Has Better Name Recognition in Florida than Bush

June 15, 2015 Buck Banks

92%

Of Floridians who voted when Marco Rubio was last on the ballot, in 2010, are still registered, a Bloomberg Politics study conducted with University of Florida has found. By contrast, political scientist Daniel A. Smith found that nearly three-quarters of Florida’s 12.9 million currently registered voters have never even seen Jeb Bush’s name on a ballot.

G.W. Bush Just Misses One Thing About Presidency

June 15, 2015 Buck Banks

There is only one thing that I really miss about being president, and that’s being the commander-in-chief.

— George W. Bush, quoted by The Hill.

The Problem Is, Warren DOES Understanding the Global Banking System

June 15, 2015 Buck Banks

The problem is not that I don’t understand the global banking system. The problem for these guys is that I fully understand the system and I understand how they make their money. And that’s what they don’t like about me.

— Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), quoted by Politico, firing back at JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon for suggesting she has no clue what she’s talking about in her attacks on Wall Street.

California Lawmaker Blames Drought on Abortion

June 15, 2015 Buck Banks

Texas was in a long period of drought until Governor Perry signed the fetal pain bill. It rained that night. Now God has his hold on California.

— California Assemblywoman Shannon Grove (R), suggesting her state’s worst drought in 1,200 years may be God’s retribution for laws providing women with access to abortions, the Huffington Post reports.

Graham Asks If a Single Guy Can’t Be President

June 15, 2015 Buck Banks

Here’s the question for the country: Can you be single and still be president? Is it a job for married people only? Is there a sign on the White House, ‘Single people may not apply?’ I don’t know, I haven’t seen it.

— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), in an interview with Yahoo, on being unmarried and running for president.

Media Ignores Jeb’s Meeting with Top Polish Official Who Was Fired Because He Criticized America

June 13, 2015July 2, 2015 Jon Ponder

Jeb Bush, left, with Radoslaw Sikorksi, one day after Sikorski resigned as speaker of the parliament because he'd criticized the United States — Jeb Bush, left, meeting with Radoslaw Sikorksi, one day after Sikorski was fired as speaker of Poland’s parliament because he’d criticized the United States

Imagine for a moment the fusillades of criticism that would be barraging Hillary Clinton right now if she’d gone overseas and met this week with a top foreign official one day after he’d been fired because he’d been caught on tape referring to his country’s longstanding alliance with the United States as “worthless” and “bullshit,” and describing the asymmetrical relationship between the two countries as being analogous to his country giving America a “blowjob.”

Now imagine what the Beltway media elite and their right-wing imitators at Fox and elsewhere would say if, instead of Clinton, the presidential candidate who’d met with this scandal-plagued, America-hating foreign leader was Jeb Bush.

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Walker Is Missing the Middle

June 12, 2015 Buck Banks

What makes Scott Walker such a formidable candidate in the primary is also what makes him vulnerable in a general election. As Walker flexes his conservative muscle on everything from immigration to gay marriage to abortion, he also risks being easily portrayed as ‘out of touch’ to the moderate voters needed to win next fall. … Winning over moderate voters means finding a way to get at least within earshot of the center on key issues. And, on two issues in particular – immigration and gay marriage – the GOP position is light-years from it.

— Amy Walter with Cook Political Report.

Carson Considers a Conundrum

June 12, 2015 Buck Banks

What position can a person take who has no animosity toward gay people, but believes in the traditional definition of marriage that would be acceptable?

— Ben Carson, in an interview on CNN.

Kirk: Graham Is a ‘Bro with No Ho’

June 12, 2015 Buck Banks

I’ve been joking with Lindsey. He’s a bro with no ho. That’s what we’d say on the South Side.

— Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL), caught on a live microphone referring to Republican presidential hopeful Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who is unmarried, the Chicago Tribune reports.

18%

Scott Walker’s leading over the GOP field in Iowa, followed by Jeb Bush, Mike Huckabee and Rand Paul at 10%. They are followed by Marco Rubio at 7%, Chris Christie at 6%, and Ben Carson and Donald Trump at 5% according to a new Morning Consult Poll.

92%

There is only one thing that I really miss about being president, and that’s being the commander-in-chief.

— George W. Bush, quoted by The Hill.

The problem is not that I don’t understand the global banking system. The problem for these guys is that I fully understand the system and I understand how they make their money. And that’s what they don’t like about me.

— Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), quoted by Politico, firing back at JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon for suggesting she has no clue what she’s talking about in her attacks on Wall Street.

Texas was in a long period of drought until Governor Perry signed the fetal pain bill. It rained that night. Now God has his hold on California.

— California Assemblywoman Shannon Grove (R), suggesting her state’s worst drought in 1,200 years may be God’s retribution for laws providing women with access to abortions, the Huffington Post reports.

Here’s the question for the country: Can you be single and still be president? Is it a job for married people only? Is there a sign on the White House, ‘Single people may not apply?’ I don’t know, I haven’t seen it.

— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), in an interview with Yahoo, on being unmarried and running for president.

— Amy Walter with Cook Political Report.

What position can a person take who has no animosity toward gay people, but believes in the traditional definition of marriage that would be acceptable?

— Ben Carson, in an interview on CNN.

I’ve been joking with Lindsey. He’s a bro with no ho. That’s what we’d say on the South Side.

— Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL), caught on a live microphone referring to Republican presidential hopeful Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who is unmarried, the Chicago Tribune reports.

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%