http://www.pensitoreview.com News and Opinion on Politics and Media Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:03:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 43% Of likely voters believe a group of people randomly selected from the phone book would do a better job than the current Congress, while 38% disagree with that assessment and another 19% are not sure, according to a new Rasmussen survey. http://www.pensitoreview.com/2012/02/09/a-plurality-believe-randomly-selected-people-would-out-perform-congress/ Rick Santorum was a sitting senator who in re-election lost by 19 points, to my knowledge the most in the history of this country for a sitting senator to lose by 19 points. It's unheard of. Then he goes out and says oh 'okay' I just lost by the biggest ... http://www.pensitoreview.com/2012/02/09/trump-puzzled-by-santorum/ 6 of 10 Top super PACs active in the 2012 elections have received money from untraceable sources, including nonprofits and shell corporations, according to Roll Call. "A third source of untraceable donations was money transfers from one super PAC to another ... in cases where the super PAC making the contribution ... http://www.pensitoreview.com/2012/02/09/super-pacs-receive-untraceable-funds/ When Republicans act like Democrats, they lose. And in Newt Gingrich's case he had to resign. In Rick Santorum's case, he lost by the biggest margin of any Senate incumbent since 1980. — Mitt Romney, quoted by NBC News. http://www.pensitoreview.com/2012/02/09/romney-accuses-opponents-of-acting-like-democrats/ The press ignored it back in the day Whenever the president had a roll in the hay. But Mimi Alford's assertions About her amorous exertions Boil down to, "I slept with JFK." http://www.pensitoreview.com/2012/02/09/me-me-mimi/ $2.1 million Amount John Edwards owes taxpayers in public matching funds improperly received after he dropped his 2008 run for the White House, the AP reports. "Edwards' hopes for the Democratic presidential nomination imploded in a sex scandal four years ago that left him facing criminal charges. But reports filed last ... http://www.pensitoreview.com/2012/02/09/edwards-campaign-still-spending-four-years-later/ If Barack Obama loses this fall, he will forever seem a disappointment: a symbolically important but accidental figure who raised hopes he could not fulfill and met difficulties he did not know how to surmount. He meant to show the unity of America but only underscored its division. As a ... http://www.pensitoreview.com/2012/02/09/for-obama-no-re-election-means-no-positive-legacy/ So much for the arguments by independents that Mitt Romney is a moderate. Mitt is not a moderate, he's not a liberal, he's not a conservative. He's a rich guy doing whatever he thinks he needs to do to claim the power that rich guys feel entitled to. Mitt is not ... http://www.pensitoreview.com/2012/02/09/the-myth-of-mitts-moderateness/ 38% President Obama's approval rating on the economy is far from robust, but has perked up from 30% in November and 26% last summer, according to Gallup. Despite these gains, Obama continues to rate worse on economic issues than on foreign policy issues. http://www.pensitoreview.com/2012/02/09/obamas-approval-rating-edges-up/ 10% Of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing — a record-low and down from 13% in January and the previous low of 11%, recorded in December 2011. http://www.pensitoreview.com/2012/02/08/congress-approval-hits-all-time-low/