Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Choice words

1.  Commenting on recent gaffes from some of the 2016 GOP hopefuls, professional crisis manager Eric Dezenhall said this:
"Politics used to be about where you stoodNow, it's about what you stepped in."
 
2.  In her spirited dissent to the SCOTUS decision that overturned a major part of the Voting Rights Act, Ruth Bader Ginsburg skewered Chief Justice John Roberts' majority opinion that said preclearance was no longer needed because voter discrimination was no longer a problem.  Here is Ginsburg's saucy response to that:
Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet."

3.  And -- from the sublime to the profane -- a Twitter exchange between disgraced, crotch-photo-sharing Congressman Anthony Wiener and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's staff:
Weiner, responding to cold weather forecast:   "It's going to be cold.   So Gov. Cuomo will be closing the subway."   This was a dig at New York's over-reaction to the predicted record-breaking snow a few weeks ago that didn't happen.

Cuomo staff:   "Yes, it's going to be coldWhich is a good reason to keep your pants on."
  
4.  Gov. Sam Brownback (R-KA), whose massive tax cuts and austerity budget have plunged Kansas into economic disaster, is now threatening to ruin (with more draconian cuts) its top-ranked state university system.    So, to change the subject, he issued an executive order rescinding job protection for LGBT state workers.    Jon Stewart responded with a quip that refers to Dorothy's line in The Wizard of Oz: "There's no place like home."   Home for Dorothy was Kansas.    
Jon Stewart:    "There's no place like homophobia."
Ralph

1 comment:

  1. Correction: In #4, I was conflating Gov. Scott Walker's cutting the top rated University of Wisconsin system by 13% with Gov. Brownback's cutting of public school funds in Kansas. In both, it's cutting education funds; but Kansas' university system would hardly be described as "top-ranked."

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