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September 8, 2009September 10, 2009 Buck Banks

If he runs for public office I may have to run myself to focus attention on the multiple illegal acts for which he has not been punished, his abuse of women and the SEXISM in the way he walked away scot free while I went to Rikers for four months for supplying him with ‘company.’

— Kristin Davis, the “Manhattan Madam” who provided former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D) with escorts, writing on her blog that she might run against him if he attempts a political comeback.

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September 7, 2009September 8, 2009 Trish

Tomorrow is official RACISTS keep your kids home from school day; at least U will identify yourself in public that way.

— Tweet from PB Dragon

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September 7, 2009September 7, 2009 Trish

“Obama’s kids-speech starts w a Stalin quote. Just kiddin’. Reading it now. A good pep talk: references to Harry Potter and Michael Jordan”
— Tweet from David Corn, Washington editor of Mother Jones magazine and Politics Daily

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September 4, 2009September 7, 2009 Buck Banks

Now, Sergey (Brin, Google co-founder) argues that the correct thing to do is to just connect it straight to your brain. In other words, you know, wire it into your head. And so we joke about this and said we have not quite figured out what that problem looks like. .… But that would solve the problem. In other words, if we just — if you had the thought and we knew what you meant, we could run it and we could run it in parallel. …. But we don’t exactly have all the medical clinics necessary to test brain insertion.
— Google CEO Eric Schmidt, on the future of search.

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September 3, 2009 Buck Banks

Everyone deserves a second chance.

— Ashely Dupre, writing on her blog about her former client, Eliot Spitzer.

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September 2, 2009 Buck Banks

It’s time to synthesize and harmonize these strands and get this done.

— White House adviser David Axelrod, quoted by Politico, on the new White House strategy for health care reform.

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August 31, 2009 Buck Banks

I think the interrogations were in violation of the Geneva Convention against torture that we ratified under President Reagan. I think that these interrogations, once publicized, helped al Qaeda recruit.

— Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), in an interview on Face the Nation, on the Bush administration’s interrogation methods. In a related Time piece, McCain says his private comments about harsh interrogation methods were misrepresented by the Bush Administration in a recently released legal document.

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August 28, 2009 Buck Banks

The NRA and Unified Sportsmen of Florida are very pleased with Governor Crist’s appointment of George LeMieux as Florida’s new junior U.S. Senator. George is rated “A” by the NRA and will be a strong supporter of the Second Amendment in the U.S. Senate. Gun owners can count on George LeMieux to fight to protect freedom and the Second Amendment.

— Marion Hammer, executive director of the Unified Sportsmen of Florida and past president of the National Rifle Association, in a statement released following Gov. Charlie Crist’s appointment of former Deputy Attorney General George LeMieux to the United States Senate.

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August 27, 2009 Buck Banks

Republicans are struggling right now to find the great white hope.

— Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS), quoted by the Topeka Capital-Journal.

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August 26, 2009 Buck Banks

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If he runs for public office I may have to run myself to focus attention on the multiple illegal acts for which he has not been punished, his abuse of women and the SEXISM in the way he walked away scot free while I went to Rikers for four months for supplying him with ‘company.’

— Kristin Davis, the “Manhattan Madam” who provided former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D) with escorts, writing on her blog that she might run against him if he attempts a political comeback.

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Everyone deserves a second chance.

— Ashely Dupre, writing on her blog about her former client, Eliot Spitzer.

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It’s time to synthesize and harmonize these strands and get this done.

— White House adviser David Axelrod, quoted by Politico, on the new White House strategy for health care reform.

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I think the interrogations were in violation of the Geneva Convention against torture that we ratified under President Reagan. I think that these interrogations, once publicized, helped al Qaeda recruit.

— Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), in an interview on Face the Nation, on the Bush administration’s interrogation methods. In a related Time piece, McCain says his private comments about harsh interrogation methods were misrepresented by the Bush Administration in a recently released legal document.

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— Marion Hammer, executive director of the Unified Sportsmen of Florida and past president of the National Rifle Association, in a statement released following Gov. Charlie Crist’s appointment of former Deputy Attorney General George LeMieux to the United States Senate.

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Republicans are struggling right now to find the great white hope.

— Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS), quoted by the Topeka Capital-Journal.

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That’s really where this battle will be won — on our knees in prayer and fasting.

— Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN), quoted by the Minnesota Independent, on how Republicans will stop health care reform.

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“One woman at a rally in New Jersey told me last week that she was ‘nauseously optimistic.’ That may capture a lot of people’s last-minute jitters.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by Axios, on what Democrats feel ahead of the midterm elections.

“I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace’s bathroom.”

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by The Wrap.

“Boy, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. It feels like a real desperation play to me, because it has got zero basis in the law.”

— Republican election law expert Ben Ginsberg, quoted by Politico, on the Trump administration’s effort to invalidate Alaska’s election results.

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3,824

$1.4 billion

-35 points

31%

63% to 38%

KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”