If We Don’t Make A Stand Here, The Next Thing They Will Demand Is That We Stop Saying Jews Killed Christ
“It appears that the Minister of Education is an apologist for the homosexual activists and their drive to insert their agenda into all schools.”
– Jim Hughes, National President of the Campaign Life Coalition
Did I Get Who They Were Talking About Confused?
No Problem – By Next Week, Romney Will Have Changed His Position
“Yeah, he’s got a responsibility to protect executive privilege. That’s just part of preserving the powers of the presidency… He should do what he thinks is the right thing with regards to members of his team but preserve executive privilege.”
– Mitt Romney on President Obama’s use of “deliberative process privilege” to withhold documents on Operation Fast and Furious from Congress
His “pledge to run the most open and transparent administration in history has turned out to be just another broken promise.”
– Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul on President George. W. Bush’s use of “deliberative process privilege” to withhold documents on…a wide variety of subjects from Congress
The More You Talk, The More It Shows
“The more I speak, the more I am puzzled about the world today.”
– Glenn Beck
There’s Always Next Season In Iran…
“The Afghan mission gave the military a sense of focus and cohesion. Now it’s like after the Stanley Cup run’s over. It’s hard to keep a team motivated and on track.”
– an unnamed military source who, if he had just been able to work oil into the statement, would pretty much define Conservative Canada
And, If It Isn’t, We Get The Law Changed, So It Soon Will Be
“Everything we do is within the law.”
– David Koch…or, maybe Charles, it’s hard to tell the difference
In Fact, I Would Be Hard Pressed To Name One
“Not every Canadian asset is a national treasure that must be guarded from foreign hands.”
– Laura Dawson, Senior Fellow, The MacDonald-Laurier Institute
A Noun, A Verb And 9/11 Doesn’t Make For A Convincing Foreign Policy, Leon, Even For Democrats
“This is about our sovereignty as well, because there were a group of individuals who attacked us on 9/11 and killed 3,000 of our citizens.”
– Defence Secretary Leon Panetta responds to allegations that US drone strikes inside Pakistan are an illegal violation of the country’s sovereignty
Not While They Can Still Pay For Tax Cuts For His Wealthy Backers, Anyway
“This Prime Minister will not force hard-working Canadian taxpayers to bail out sumptuous Euro welfare-state countries and the wealthy bankers that lend to them.”
– Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre
I Suspect He’s Not Calling For An MRI Scan Of The Candidate
“Romney has plenty of brains, but I want to see heart and stomach.”
– Rupert Murdoch tweets
Somebody Should Have Paid A Little More Attention In High School Math Class…
“There’s no 100 per cent with Tom Cruise; there’s only one million per cent.”
– Rock of Ages director Adam Shankman
Well, You’re Already Halfway There…
“The conservative movement needs a Dick Clark, and I hope to fill some of that vacuum.”
– Glenn Beck
He’s Obviously Blocked Stephen Harper’s “Western Firewall” Out Of His Memory (And, Who Wouldn’t, Really)
“For Mulcair to turn on one region of the country he seeks to lead, and excoriate Alberta’s prosperity, was as shabby a piece of demagogic hypocrisy as I have ever seen.”
– Conrad Black
You’re Not Giving Republicans Enough Credit – They’ve Been Doing This For Four Years
“I am buying that they’re rooting against the economy somewhat because they think that, you know, the short-term pain of, you know, the next four months is much better than having additional four years of pain under Obama. they believe that government should spend less and that they have better economic ideas then the president does. So, you know, if we have to suffer between now and November to get a better president for four years, they’re all for it.”
– Rob Gray, a former a senior adviser to Mitt Romney during his 2003 campaign and current media strategist
You Had Me At: “I’m No Expert…”
“I’m no expert on fracking technology, and I’m in no position to evaluate the risks,” but it is “cleaner, greener.”
– Globe and Mail‘s Margaret Wente
You Can Just See Him Twisting His Moustache When He Says That, Can’t You?
“That is not the issue.”
– Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell on how his party would cover thirty million uninsured Americans if it repeals the Affordable Care Act
Taking His Own Holyday From Common Sense…
“I personally wouldn’t want to raise my kids on King Street or Yonge Street. There are healthier places. I mean, I could just see now: ‘Where’s little Ginny? Well, she’s downstairs playing in the traffic on her way to the park!'”
– Toronto Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday
So, If The Bank Of England Told All Of Your Friends To Jump Off A Bridge…
“At the time, it did not seem an inappropriate action given that this was coming from the Bank of England.”
– former Barclay’s executive Jerry del Missier explaining his rationale for misreporting the bank’s LIBOR numbers
We WANT To Care About The Poor, See, But We Just Aren’t Emotionally Built That Way
“We’re accused, by the way – in our party – of being the party of the rich. And it’s an awful moniker, because that’s just not true. We’re the party of people who want to get rich. And we’re also the party of people who want to care to help people from getting poor.”
– Mitt Romney
To Be Fair, The Country’s Landscape Painters Of The Time Were In A Rut And Really Needed A New Source Of Inspiration
“The landscape around Jizel, east of Algeria’s capital Algiers on the Barbary Coast, appears like an artist’s hidden paradise in some remote corner of the world. The view of the Mediterranean framed by the mountains is spectacular, and it tells me why the French fought so long and hard to remain here.”
– Salim Mansur, in the Toronto Sun