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From The Reporter’s Notebook
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) on Wednesday said that he won’t seek another term in 2018 because he “hopes to find the right balance” and is sick of sleeping in his office, TPM’s Esme Cribb reported. “I really, really like the work in Congress, I really do, but I love my family more. People may try to make it more than that, but it’s really that simple,” Chaffetz said on MSNBC. “I just turned 50. I’m sleeping on a cot in my office.”
Say What?!
“I don’t know. Coming from liberals who urge women to claim victimization, ‘Fight like a girl’ just doesn’t sound the same as when legit fighters for equality say it, mean it, live it, and will never give it up.”
– Former GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin took aim at Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), accusing her of appropriating what she says is her catchphrase, “fight like a girl.”
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “We are in the politics-as-pure-marketing age. The Republicans set us on this course long ago, realizing that if you can sell cr@ppy products through marketing, you can sell cr@ppy politics the same way, and have been doing it now for 40 years (even the first Reagan election was notable for its use of savvy marketing — carefully designing every photo-op). The Democrats have to hit the marketing hard and relentlessly, not wait for election season. The p*ss poor marketing the Democrats have been doing is and has been pathetic. Every now and again a gifted spokes-politician — Bill Clinton and Barack Obama — provide a temporary fix, but the stunning lack of marketing skill and effort explodes into plain view when a non-gifted marketeer is the candidate: Dukakis, Gore, Kerry, Clinton II. (And even Obama failed calamitously in marketing once he got into office. His whole first two years were a disaster from that perspective).”
Related: Marshall: My Take on Tonight’s Result in GA-6
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