Campaign ’12
This Month’s Quotes and Notes From the Campaign’s Rocky Road
s Road DICK ARMEY
“Obama cracks me up. He wants Republicanss Republicans to accept large tax increases . . . on small business owners who provide employment . . . but he wants to take his plate of peas — cutting frivolous government spending like national public radio — he’s the one who won’t eat his peas.”
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Former House majority leader to Newsmax on Obama’s “peas” comment during debt-ceiling debate
NICK AYERS “I spent the week on the road with the governor and Mrs. Pawlenty. We traveled nearly 700 miles through Iowa — stopped in 18 counties — slept in ve different hotels, visited four Subway sandwich shops, and ended the week with one game of pick-up hockey in Des Moines (
T.Paw even scored!).”
Tim Pawlenty’s campaign manager in a July email to supporters of the Republican presidential candidate and former Minnesota governor
RUSH LIMBAUGH “It distresses me to see what has happened to this country and to know it need not have happened, to know that has happened because of policies implemented by someone who — I don’t care — is either clueless or is himself a saboteur.” Speaking on his radio show
in July
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PATAKI LIEBERMAN
Obamacare is the worst law in my lifetime.
Observing the Sabbath can have a profound benefi t on people’s lives.
Laura Ingraham: America’s culture decline is eroding our country’s greatness.
OBAMA A FUNDRAISING GOLIATH President Obama, fi rst lady Michelle, and veep Joe Biden have morphed into a triple-headed fundraising machine. To meet the Obama camp’s goal of raising $60 million for the second quarter of 2011, the fi rst couple and Biden did two and even three fundraisers on some days, reports iWatch. The campaign passed its goal of 450,000 donors, announcing that it’s at nearly half a million individual donors.
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through $32 million through June, spending the cash on telemarketing calls, hotels, and security guards,
The Washington Post reported. Tim Pawlenty spent $200,000 at businesses in Iowa, while Mitt Romney showered nearly $750,000 on vendors in New Hampshire, and Newt Gingrich spent more than $500,000 on charter services. Romney ended June far ahead of the GOP fi eld with about $12 million in the bank.
POLS: TWITTER ‘POINTLESS BABBLE’ Most members of Congress view
social media sites, particularly Twitter, as a venue for “pointless babble,” according to the National Journal. SourceWatch reports that less than 20 senators have Twitter accounts.
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Former Florida senator explores Saudi Arabia’s role in 9/11 novel.
Brown, a top Democratic target in 2012, in her home state of Massachusetts. Democrats looking to take back the seat long held by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said she would need to l launch her candidacy soon to counter Brown’s popularity. popularity. “If I were advising he she make
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decision not to pick Elizabeth Warren to head a new consumer protection agency is
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