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Drug Testing Welfare Recipients Shows One Group Was Right — the Welfare Recipients

What do you do when the facts don’t support your actions, which were based on extremist rhetoric and false notions? If you’re Gov. Rick Scott (GOP/Tea – Fla.) you simply change the mission.
The results are in, and drug testing of welfare recipients as a means to deny them assistance costs more than it saves and [...]

Whoo-Hoo! We Just Got Our 50th “Like!”

Champagne corks are popping at Pensito Review because we just got our 50th Facebook “Like” today! Our thumbs are UP.
O.K., 50 might not sound like much to those of you with 637 “Friends,” but when you understand our past ambivalence toward Facebook, you’ll understand why it’s a big deal (not to be confused with health [...]

If Republicans Wanted Prices at the Pump to Fall, They Would Go Along with Obama’s Plan

The president is proposing a plan that would actually make a dent in gas prices. And no, it’s not drill baby, drill because, as Obama explained, there’s a big hole in that idea.
…the problem is we use more than 20 percent of the world’s oil and we only have 2 percent of the world’s proven [...]

Penguin Bites Newt Gingrich

We imagine the penguin was just standing its ground.
Newt was nipped on the finger by a penguin during a private tour of the famous St. Louis zoo on Friday before he spoke to the National Rifle Association convention, zoo officials confirmed on Monday.
Gingrich, who is trailing in the Republican race for the White House and [...]

Cute Kittens! Funny Fat Cats! Slamming Mitt Romney! What’s Not to Love in This Ad?

Mitt Said in January That Staying Home with Kids Wasn’t “Work”

It was only January — four short months ago– that former Gov. Mitt Romney applauded the idea of women abandoning their two-year-olds so they could experience “the dignity of work.” That’s work as compared to…what? Possibly, “never working a day in their lives?”
Mitt better warm up his Etch A Sketch for this one. The [...]

Oh Yeah, THIS Will Help Republicans Among Women

O’Reilly posted a video someone made of Democratic National Committee Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.) talking about her curly hair and then commenting on a recent news story with a new, straight hairstyle.
Hey Debbie: Love the new look. You go, girl.
Hey Bill: Srsly? Moron.

Mrs. Obama Defends Moms, Even Ann Romney

Every mother works hard, and every woman deserves to be respected

Tweet on the First Lady’s Twitter feed, signed “-mo” to show it was posted by Michelle Obama herself, in response to Democratic strategist Hillary Rosen’s comment that Mrs. Ann Romney “never worked a day in her life.”

If You Could Only Have One Joke About Romney…

A liberal, a conservative, and a moderate walk into a bar. The bartender says, “Hi Mitt.”

Russ’ dad, via email

Has Florida Become the Homer Simpson of America?

The Florida brand is being portrayed in a negative light each and every day on all of the major networks.

State Sen. Chris Smith (D – Ft. Lauderdale), (who might have missed the Bush v. Gore case) announcing his own task force to look into Florida’s NRA-penned “Stand Your Ground” law which is being used to justify killing Trayvon Martin. Gov. Rick Scott says he will also have a task force to examine the law, but only after special prosecutor Angela Corey concludes her investigation of the death. We presume that if that inquiry goes well for the shooter, the governor will see no further need to consider the law.