Friday, July 11, 2014

The Sort of Wild and Weird

++Drudge brought his siren back. The breaking news was that President Obama had a 72% approval rating among MUSLIMS!  That was the story. But in the same Gallup poll he has a 55% approval among Jews, 59% approval rating among non-Christians and a 54% rating among those with no religion or atheists. With Christians he is below the waterline and with Mormons he is at 18% approval/78% disapproval.

++John Boehner's alleged lawsuit, which may not be as successful as his defense of DOMA, which cost the taxpayers millions of dollars,is that the President DID NOT IMPLEMENT OBAMACARE FAST ENOUGH. Here's a man who tried to repeal Obamacare dozens of times and whose party disapproves of the employer's mandate on principle. So to keep the base fired up, he decides to sue on Obamacare. 

++Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball shows while Congress' approval is at single digits this has been one of the best for incumbents during the primaries. 273 out of 275 incumbents won their primaries. 18 out of 18 incumbents won theirs. This is one of the best performances for incumbents since WWII. Eric Cantor's loss represented 1/2 of the losses in either party.

++Steve Stockman (R-Texas) doesn't want to be outdone by John Boehner. He proposed today that the sergeant at arms of the House find IRS official Lois Lerner and arrest her for contempt of congress charges. I guess he wants her imprisoned in the small cell in the House Chambers.

++A federal judge in Florida issued a 41-page ruling that invalidated Florida's congressional districts on the rounds that it was so heavily tilted to Republicans and violated the state's Fair District standards.

++ Senator Mary Landrieu still leads in the Louisiana race.The issue is that Louisiana has the jungle primary and the winner must have 50% of the vote so that it looks like the race will go to a second round.

++The New York Times expanded on the theme of how strange polling for the mid-terms is and how difficult some states are. In particular, they focus on North Carolina and the strange bubble the libertarian always has until the end, the difficulty of polling in Alaska and the strange situation in Arkansas where Pryor tops all Democratic and non-partisan polls while Cotton wins all Republican polls.

++Yes, LeBron James is going back to Cleveland.

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